Scott Stevens may be best known (or unknown) as an Idahoan meteorologist turned conspiracy theorist, but his online labor of love, Weather Wars has transformed him into an Internet-stationed social activist.

The simply-designed site is a collection of links to news stories and personal entries that revolve around a seemingly fringe message. Stevens’ claim: that The Powers That Be harness the technology to control the world’s climate and with it, are engaging in international warfare.

“I’m using the site as a tool to point out the obvious,” he said. “I have to present the information in a simple manner because the manipulation of our weather is obvious once you choose to look.”

Stevens said he doesn’t expect people to take his word for it, but rather, for his claims to trigger a sense of “intellectual curiosity.”

His own inquisitiveness drove him to quit his day job as a local weatherman last year and commit full-time to research and Webmastering.

After this transition, and even more so after he attributed Hurricane Katrina to Japanese weather-manipulation weaponry, Stevens started to turn heads in the media. He’s been a guest on Coast to Coast AM, The O’Reilly Factor and some 30 other shows. He has also been the subject of print media news features.

The response of personalities and journalists has been hesitant, he said, but ultimately affirmative.

“They’re always a little skeptical at first, but once I give them the clues that I use to follow the rabbit down the hole, then they come out going, ‘Oh my, there is something to this.'”

Stevens said he hopes to gain as much readership as possible and for believers in his proposed theories to put more pressure on the government to take weather-manipulation seriously.

He cited a bill moving its way through Congress that would establish a national weather modification policy without oversight from experts and a realistic view of how advanced the technology currently is.

“There are not many topics that affect as many people at the same time as our environment. It’s absolutely essential that if we can control our environment that it’s done for the betterment of mankind … I suppose I’m the right messenger for the right message,” he said.