Conspiracy theories around the SR (a critical overview)

Several conspiracy narratives have formed around the SR. We summarize them and explain why they do not hold up Wiki Conspiracy.

"HAARP controls the Schumann resonance." HAARP is a research facility for heating the ionosphere; it can locally and temporarily affect a small region of the ionosphere, but the SR is a global phenomenon excited by approximately 50 lightning strikes per second across the entire planet. To "switch off" or "retune" a planet-wide resonance with a local transmitter is, energetically and physically, out of the realm of reality.

"The SR is a transmitter / an artificial signal by which they are trying to control us." It is not. The SR is a natural consequence of the fact that the Earth-ionosphere cavity functions as a resonator and lightning constantly "hammers" into it. No transmitter creates it Price 2016.

"When the SR switches off (a zero/outage appears on the graph), something bad happens / humanity wakes up." Gaps and zeros on online graphs are almost always outages or maintenance of a single station, not a disappearance of the phenomenon (see #98). The SR exists as long as lightning strikes on Earth.

The common denominator of these theories: they confuse a natural, passively measured phenomenon for a controlled transmitter, and data from a single station for the state of the entire planet. Skepticism toward institutions is understandable, but the physics of the SR is well understood and openly published.