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Don't Stop Hurricanes, Guide Them
New Scientist ^ | 5-3-2008

Posted on 05/03/2008 1:03:13 PM PDT by blam

Don't stop hurricanes, guide them

03 May 2008
From New Scientist Print Edition.

Would-be hurricane fighters hoping to stop a future Katrina before it makes landfall should aim to wound, not kill. The goal should be to re-route hurricanes and ease their fury, rather than try to stop them forming in the first place.

This is the latest advice from weather modification experts. The field has a colourful history. In the 1960s and early 1970s, scientists on "Project Stormfury" tried in vain to disrupt the inner structure of hurricanes by seeding them with silver iodide crystals. Various other far-fetched ideas to neutralise storms have been mooted since then, such as cooling the ocean surface.

More recently, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked a Stormfury veteran called Joe Golden - now at the University of Colorado at Boulder - to gather experts to evaluate prospects for taming hurricanes. Last week, the panel reported their findings at an American Meteorological Society meeting on weather modification in Westminster, Colorado.

The group says aiming to stop storms altogether needs careful consideration: "Hurricanes serve a useful purpose in the Earth's energy budget and... rainfall from tropical cyclones is a vital component of the regional water supply." Diverting storms and weakening them should be the aim.

They have requested $2.6 million from the DHS over three years to study how this might be achieved. Golden told New Scientist that the DHS is receptive to the idea. "I'm very upbeat, amazed and encouraged," he says.

(Excerpt) Read more at environment.newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fighter; guide; hurricanes; katrina

1 posted on 05/03/2008 1:03:14 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Hurricanes are steered by high pressure systems which actually contain a lot more energy than the hurricanes themselves. Good luck.


2 posted on 05/03/2008 1:09:03 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: blam
---more conceit on the part of dimwits who overestimate the effect humans can have on nature.

Reminds me of Russian proposals of fifty years ago to melt Siberia by spreading carbon black on the snow---

3 posted on 05/03/2008 1:09:21 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: blam
Why don't we just give them black names?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33896

4 posted on 05/03/2008 1:10:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels (God Bless America, Land That I Love)
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To: blam

Well there is another $2.6 million dollars gone with the wind! Krap!


6 posted on 05/03/2008 1:31:34 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: OeOeO

Do we really need racism on this board????


7 posted on 05/03/2008 1:43:58 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: blam

Interesting concept, legally speaking. If your house gets taken out by a hurricane today then it’s an act of God. If the government steered a hurricane away from New Orleans and it wiped out your house instead, would you be able to sue for damages?


8 posted on 05/03/2008 1:51:55 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: rickmichaels

Sheila Jackson Lee actually suggested this. She is angry because hurricane names are “white.”


9 posted on 05/03/2008 1:52:09 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: StolarStorm
Currently, 57.7 percent of all black children, 31.8 percent of all Hispanic children, and 20.9 percent of all white children are living in single-parent homes. --Source: Saluter, Arlen F. Marital Status and Living Arrangements: March 1994., US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Report. p28-484. Washington, DC: GPO, 1996. US Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the United States 1997, Washington, DC: GPO, 1997.
10 posted on 05/03/2008 2:11:42 PM PDT by OeOeO (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi... Gloria get me a beer,and hurry..)
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To: blam

Paging Karl Rove!

Where is that graphic of him in the White House basement manning the Hurricane Steering Machine?


11 posted on 05/03/2008 3:55:27 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: goodwithagun

Is Sheila Jackson Lee a white name or a black name? I’m confused.


12 posted on 05/03/2008 3:56:30 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: blam

A tremendous amount of energy would be required to divert weather systems. That energy could be put to better use in providing power for the masses.
(it’s a dumb idea)


13 posted on 05/03/2008 4:00:21 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Steering a Hurricane. Yea right. Must be some money in this.


14 posted on 05/03/2008 4:05:07 PM PDT by AGreatPer (The Penguins will make them Park Rangers. Called that, Pens up 3-1)
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To: rickmichaels

Actually, I think a better idea would be to name them things like Oh Hell #1, Oh Hell NO, Oh Hell Not Again and Get The Hell Outta the Way!
Then, of course, we could just call them what everyone does- only add the appropriate number afterward- S.O.B. #1,2, etc, reserving the name BIG S.O.B. for the Katrina types.
Oh hell- if people want black names, let Chris Rock name’em , might as well get some laughs outta hurricane season.


15 posted on 05/03/2008 4:07:24 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: OeOeO
I'm aware of that statistic. However, 40+ percent of black children do have both parents and your comment just painted those folks with the same insulting brush.

Its no different than saying that being racist is a typical white thing.
16 posted on 05/03/2008 5:20:52 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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