Weather Control

[Kuu]

Its been dreamed of for years. We move closer to it every year. I am reminded of it just now by this article [I love that blog, btw]. Nothing really new there for those that are of keen eyes...

So, weather control... will it save us from terrible catastrophes, or will it be the weapon of choice for future wars? Has it already begun? Methods to do it?

 

[Toad]

Weather control is dangerous. You can't control one area's weather without affecting anothers.

 

[Oblivious]

YouTube- Russia's HAARP - Weather Modification? or Research Station?

According to many people from Russia I have spoken with, every year at the May Parade in Moscow's Red Square, if the weather is not nice they will turn these Giant Tesla Coils on and clear out the skies.

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Weather control is dangerous. You can't control one area's weather without affecting anothers.

Agreed... I'd also go on to wager that when weather control is first implemented, it will be exploited for the enhanced productivity of a few rich locales without concern for the effects it causes 'downstream'. (E.G. enhancing rainfall in one location, causing a drought in poorer areas elsewhere.)

I also wonder if the first attempts at controlling the weather would be inefficiently manipulated? In the above example, two equally sized areas would get enhanced rainfall, three equally sized areas would get drought...
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[Ogion]

I honestly don't think that we (as humanity) are ready enough to try to deliberately change weather. Not ready in terms of knowledge and technology, but especially not ready in terms of attitude.

Another intersting link, which does not exactly speak of weather control, but of geoengineering against climate change. There is an interesting analogy in there.

Ogion

 

[Anling]

I think before we save ourselves with weather control we will royally screw it up. I could see keeping the extremes out of the weather systems being useful. But then there are ecosystems adapted to those extremes. So maybe we should just leave well enough alone.

That would be a huge project. We'd have to manage the whole planets weather if we wanted to keep things from getting really messed up. I wonder what it would take to even just accurately keep track of the world's weather. Maybe we should learn how to accurately predict weather before we try to control it.

 

[Toad]

We can still barely predict the god damn weather. Just a few weeks ago here in Vancouver they predicted sun and it snowed the whole god damn week. SNOW in APRIL?!

 

[Red Mage]

If we can control the weather, our predictions will be 100% accurate. Or 95% accurate if we're still not sure how to use the machines properly.

 

[Toad]

Or maybe the reason it snowed was because the canadian government is secretly testing a weather control machine!!! OMG it's a fcking conspiracy!!!

 

[Ogion]

Yea but the arguments are right. If we are nto able to make stable correct predictions for me than 15 days, and on the more timely issue are far away of *understanding* nearly everything tehreis about climate, then we are most certainly not ready to attempt 'control' the weather. And to attempt would be very irresponsible, imo.

Ogion

 

[Toad]

I agree with u 100% Ogion. It's like trying to travel through time when we can't even predict the future. Or even if we did travel through time we would probably fck up the space time continuum because we don't fully understand time.

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Yea but the arguments are right. If we are nto able to make stable correct predictions for me than 15 days, and on the more timely issue are far away of *understanding* nearly everything tehreis about climate, then we are most certainly not ready to attempt 'control' the weather. And to attempt would be very irresponsible, imo.

I agree, but when it really begins to become feasible, no one is going to hold back for a little thing like irresponsibility. There will be too much money to be made.
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[Tyria]

Changing weather isn't so bad. Experiments with weather may show us how robust or fragile the weather system really is. If we master it, it can be used for purposes limited only by human imagination.

 

[FacetiousPersona]

It concerning how the manipulation of weather could be utilized in warfare. Can you imagine an earthquake happening at a military base and an artifical storm approaching a nation? Would they counter these with their ability to control weather?

I would like to think that we would advance defenses on par with these offensive advancements at the same time, but I do not regard nuclear warheads as much less destructive with our current technology considered.

 

[Tyria]

While weather would be a possible weapons, I think they would use machines instead to fight. Although they might use drought against other nations as such... I would see weather more as using moisture or wind against an enemy force more than anything else. Time will tell.

 

[Felan]

I tend to think a weapon of weather control would target the economy of the enemy.

 

[Renk Fasze]

I just read something along the lines of a Russian organization in the recent past actually were advertising and selling custom weather. They have had a history of attempting this, wouldn't surprise me if they have succeeded.

Long shot too but there are accounts of groups with focused will who are able to alter weather patterns.