It’s time to put our heads together and fix the weather problem
Fires in California, hurricanes in Florida, floods in China and Bangladesh, drought in Australia and it’s all because of the weather. We can fix anything, right? We put men on the moon, we bring men back from the moon, we build buildings that pierce the sky and revolve on their own axis, we make new islands in the sea and we dig canals and change the geography of the world. How come we do nothing about the weather?
New project
Let’s initiate a new project to conquer the weather. We start by taking a couple of Personal Loans and buying a modest TV set and we keep it permanently tuned to the CNN or some other weather channel. Bad weather news starts around May and June when temperatures heat up. A hurricane is born somewhere east of Japan and sets out in a westerly direction, destination Florida. Now is the time to act.
The Bad Weather Response Team
The BWRT swings into action, sends up a squadron of weather planes to examine the situation and decides on the best action to change the course of the hurricane or to drive it out to sea or bomb it out of existence.
Here’s another example. The temperature in California moves into the 90s on its way to the 100s. Fire alarm threat! The BWRT zooms up north, gets hold of some cool air and drives it south towards California and staves off the extreme temperatures.
There has to be way…
These examples sound frivolous, but some weather control must be possible. Israel solved a potential drought problem this past winter by seeding clouds. This is old technology, the main problem being how to make sure you get the right sort of clouds to seed when you need them.
Watching the floodwaters hitting the coast of Louisiana a few years ago was heartbreaking. Why was it not possible to divert that disastrous hurricane? It moved so slowly, almost as though begging someone to do something.
Man proposes
There is not much that man has not learned to control on this planet. We actually manage to do some amazing things. But along comes the weather and we stand petrified and helpless in the face of its unbelievable power. Remember the 2004 tsunami, the loss of 225,000 people in eleven countries, the 30 meter high waves? We watched and could do nothing. What’s worse is that we cannot even manage to get the survivors back on their feet, but that’s another story.
It’s time
It’s time to stop spending these huge amounts of money on arms and weapons and direct our attention and resources to the subject of weather control. I’m sure we have the brains and capability of doing something. Perhaps it’s the enormity of the challenge that’s put us off doing something and concentrating on lesser projects. At the moment, the world’s attention is focused on weaning ourselves off oil and we are pushing the development of solar energy to the outer limits. But, Gentlemen, if the sun don’t shine, there won’t be no solar energy. There’s another project for you. It’s time to get our act together!
If the global warming people are right (which at times is hard to believe – this last winter was FREEZING) then we already are practicing weather control, or at least influence, and it’s changing for the worse. The only way for the weather to be completely controlled would be to manipulate the atmosphere, and the results would probably be lousy. However, knocking off all this ridiculous infighting as a species to pursue a goal that has something to do with reality (like preventing disasters, space exploration) instead of the human species’ quibbling over the usual suspects would be a welcome change for once. I doubt we’ll ever see it, though!