The Need To Seed -- Massive Cloud or Ocean Seeding - Could It Make A Difference?

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories ^ | 9/21/05 | Robert Widmann

[Diogenez]

STORMFURY seeding involved no more than a couple of DC-6s. Hundreds of sorties carrying ground ice or silver idodide dropped into the ocean or the storm at critical points might now make a difference. We know very much more about what these critical points might be than we knew in the 1960's. And in the 60's we used only 2 DC 6s not hundreds.

[theFIRMbss]

"Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005."

Its purpose ...? Here's a direct quote from the Senate version of Bill S. 517:

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative Federal and State program of weather modification research and development ....

[quantfive]

"It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative Federal and State program of weather modification research and development ...."

Yep. Probably worth the investment, since we are in the early phases of a 40 year nasty weather cycle.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here's another idea for combating hurricanes. These ideas seem outlandish -- but, so have many other technological developments, before they were tried and proven.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474250/posts

[ARCADIA]

That begs the question; what risk are we willing to assume over the weather? An act of god is beyond our control, but altering a natural process, exposes us for our direct intervention. What if we spark a flood over Cuba in order to reduce a CAT 5 to a CAT 4; would that be an act of war?

[msnimje]

[stuartcr]

They just need to get a whole bunch of airplanes, to fly clockwise about 200mph, around the hurricane, in ever-decreasing circles.

[ARCADIA]

It would make more sense to change the zoning and construction standards to resist the worst that a catagory V storms can throw at us.

[theFIRMbss]

"Effect of the Reich weather control apparatus
on a small cumulus cloud. Time between frames: one minute.
The black "X" designates the direction
of the antenna at the beginning
of the apparatus I use, (From a motion picture sequence)"

[FreePaul]

Government modifying the weather. OK if it benefits you. Someone will object, claim to have gotten wet when they didn't want or didn't get rain when they should and the lawyers will get richer.

[trublu]

How about a liquid nitrogen MOAB?

[Always Right]

It would make more sense to change the zoning and construction standards to resist the worst that a catagory V storms can throw at us.

It may be cheaper just to rebuild the house 4 or 5 times.

[mewzilla]

[cubreporter]

NO. That is messing with Mother Nature and the natural order of things. I think this article shows how much man thinks of himself and how much he thinks he can do to change the order. Dangerous.

[manwiththehands]

I just don't see puny mankind being able to put much of a dent in a hurricane - without tempting even more catastrophic consequences.

[BikerNYC]

The Need To Seed

I've had it since I was 15.

[Vaquero]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr's brother invented the cloud seeding thing...

[paulat]

They're already controlling the weather:

[mewzilla]

LOL.

[ARCADIA]

It may be cheaper just to rebuild the house 4 or 5 times.

The house is one thing; but restocking the warm bodies three or four times, and the repetitive costs of rescue, and public hand ringing, makes it preferable to build the dumb thing right the first time. Besides; such a home will probably prove more durable and energy efficient, and can be a good step in hardening the country against crime and terrorist attacks. A CAT V house is almost a military bunker.