To paraphrase Engels: the point is not to understand the weather, but to change it. What is the state of Weather Changing Technology (WCT) and how much would it cost to advance the state of the art? Is there a cost-effective, safe way to dissipate the energy in a hurricane so our Gulf Coast is not a perennial disaster area? If the trend is global cooling or global warming, how can we reverse it? If I were Pres, I would convene 20 or 30 real physicists and engineers (I would exclude all “global warming” “experts”) to discuss these issues.
To hear the ecofreaks spin it, the winds eminating from the wings of a butterfly across the globe have impact on our weather. IF we could succeed in dissipating hurricanes, what would be the impact to the weather? Would we understand the full implication of our action?
If we could have such control, what would the "optimal" temperature be? Would we still have our seasons? Would more northern climes demand a longer growing season? And what about when there was a "glitch" and some Asiatic nation is flooded by a tsunami (or would we ever be able to prove that we did NOT cause an environmental disaster)?