"Spencer Weart & American Institute of Physics" Physics mind you. ;) Climate Modification Schemes "If human activities could change climate, why not change it on purpose, to suit us better? From 1945 into the 1970s, much effort went into studies of weather modification. American entrepreneurs tried cloud-seeding to enhance local rainfall, Russian scientists offered fabulous schemes of planetary engineering, and military agencies secretly explored "climatological warfare." The hopes and fears promoted basic research on climate change by raising large sums of government money and a few provocative ideas. In the mid 1970s the visionary projects were mostly abandoned. Research turned instead to controversial "geoengineering" schemes for interventions that might restrain global warming if it started to become unbearable." "at the end of 1945 a brilliant mathematician, John von Neumann, called other leading scientists to a meeting in Princeton, where they agreed that modifying weather deliberately might be possible. They expected that could make a great difference in the next war. Soviet harvests, for example, might be ruined by creating a drought." "As the Cold War got underway, U.S. military agencies devoted significant funds to research on what came to be called "climatological warfare."" "For scientists like von Neumann, the main research thrust was plain: the nation needed computer modeling of weather systems. For the chief difficulty in figuring out how to change climate lay in predicting just how the atmosphere might respond to a given type of intervention. The only hope for answering that (aside from trying it out) was with computer models." ________________ The NOAA and The Weather Channel use the same models, as well as real weather modification companies, and Geoengineering. Preaching, yes I know. Sorry. :P aip.org/history/climate/RainMake.htm ____________________
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:24:36 +0000
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