What can be done to stop hurricanes?

Answer 1

Nothing, it is Mother Nature and you or no one else can stop Her.

Answer 2

Is this a serious question? "what can be done to stop hurricanes?" Honestly you can't with any fiber of logic ask such a question! Hurricanes are a force of nature all of their own. You cannot just "stop" hurricanes anymore than you can stop the sun from rising or the rain from falling. Why would you want to if you could? Hurricanes are a necessary part of the cycle. We need them to cleanse these areas. Think of it as mother nature's shower time. Hurricanes are not at all a bad thing. They are actually quite beautiful. They just happen to get a bad wrap when they hit heavily populated areas that people care about. Last year a hurricane wiped out a good chunk of life on the Yucatan peninsula, nobody gave a damn because of New Orleans. Who's to say that those Central Americans lives were any less valuable than the American ones?
The question shouldn't be how to stop hurricanes, instead how to help after hurricanes.

Answer 3

Question: What can be done to stop hurricanes?

Answer: We shouldn't be trying to stop hurricanes, any more than we should attempt to stop any natural phenomenon. Hurricanes, like tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, are things that have to happen. Just like flooding near some rivers; if that flooding didn't happen, rich nutrients wouldn't end up on that soil and those countries that rely on floodplains wouldn't have the crops they need.

If we start messing with the weather, we don't know what changes that will cause in other places. If we stop hurricanes here, where will that weather go? If we create highs in one area, what lows will pop up in places they shouldn't? Several natural disaster movies have been made about messing with Mother Nature, the latest being "Day after Tomorrow". Yes, that's the Hollywood version of what might happen, but do we know that would NOT happen if we start messing with the weather? If we find a way to keep hurricanes from hitting the gulf coast (and I'm a resident of the gulf coast and have gone through several hurricanes now) where will that disturbed weather go? If areas that usually flood like clockwork don't flood, what crops get destroyed?

The United States is probably one of the only places on earth that can have just about any severe weather you can think of. The US gets blizzards, droughts, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, floods, earthquakes...well you get the picture. We get more crazy stuff than other countries, true. But, that doesn't mean that we should change things just to suit this country.

Natural disasters cause problems, deaths, damage. But, those same natural disasters are what's created the world we live in today.

Answer 4

Artificial dissipation
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States government attempted to weaken hurricanes in its Project Stormfury by seeding selected storms with silver iodide. It was thought that the seeding would cause supercooled water in the outer rainbands to freeze, causing the inner eyewall to collapse and thus reducing the winds. The winds of Hurricane Debbie dropped as much as 30 percent, but then regained their strength after each of two seeding forays. In an earlier episode, disaster struck when a hurricane east of Jacksonville, Florida, was seeded, promptly changed its course, and smashed into Savannah, Georgia.[24] Because there was so much uncertainty about the behavior of these storms, the federal government would not approve seeding operations unless the hurricane had a less than 10 percent chance of making landfall within 48 hours. The project was dropped after it was discovered that eyewall replacement cycles occur naturally in strong hurricanes, casting doubt on the result of the earlier attempts. Today it is known that silver iodide seeding is not likely to have an effect because the amount of supercooled water in the rainbands of a tropical cyclone is too low.[25]

Other approaches have been suggested over time, including cooling the water under a tropical cyclone by towing icebergs into the tropical oceans; dropping large quantities of ice into the eye at very early stages so that latent heat is absorbed by ice at the entrance (storm cell perimeter bottom) instead of heat energy being converted to kinetic energy at high altitudes vertically above; covering the ocean in a substance that inhibits evaporation; or blasting the cyclone apart with nuclear weapons. These approaches all suffer from the same flaw: tropical cyclones are simply too large for any of them to be practical.[26]

However, it has been suggested by some that it is possible to change the course of a storm during its early stages of formation,[27] such as using satellites to alter the environmental conditions or, more realistically, spreading a degradable film of oil over the ocean, which prevent water vapor from fueling the storm.

Answer 5

Despite the negative effects of hurricanes, they actually have positive effects for our environment. They bring the annual rainfall that many parts of our world need. In addition, they help maintain a global heat balance by moving warm air. If hurricanes were to be stopped by some chemical solution in the future, it would most likely have a devastating effect on some other part of our globe.

Public safety and new technologies are important alternatives. By engineering more structurally sound and hurricane-resistant buildings, lives, property, and money will be saved. In addition to this, better evacuation planning by government is crucial.

Answer 6

There is absolutely nothing, at this point in time, that can be done to stop one of the most destructive forces on the face of the earth. However, we are an educated people and the warning time for a hurricane's approach is phenomenal. Heed those warnings and evacuate when you are told to. That is all we can do.

Answer 7

Most Hurricanes start far out in our oceans. Some of these reach shore and cause mass destruction, but the majority of them lose momentum before ever reaching shore. We have not thought of a way to totally prevent them, but I've thought about using massively-built fans to "fight fire with fire", so to speak. Some of those winds reach more than 60 miles per hour and more, so it would have to be a huge fan with a huge velocity wind factor. The aim would have to be at the Hurricane's most furiously blowing winds. I do not know what the result would be, other than to direction the Hurricane's force back on itself.

Answer 8

Why even thinking of changing them???
I love em.I used to live in Florida.Unfortunately not anymore since Bush became President but that is another story.
Anyway hurricanes are great for many reasons.
Yes I know they kill, they destroy blablabla but think about how many jobs are being created because of it!!! How much money go in new hand's often to people who really need it.Jobs not only because you need a new house,new furniture, no you need new power lines,new phones,new food,new clothing,new animals,new shoes,new roads,new beaches,new cars,new paint,new new new.
You need to protect before and restore after.This is helping economy more then anything else and it helps nature it self to control it self and we all benefit from it in one way or another.The same is with tornados,Tai fun,land slides,tsunamis,earth quake etc.Don't you wish (not everybody) there should be a lot more like that occasionally???
There is more then 6billion people on this planet and no one wants to reduce them for ethic reasons, human reasons or how ever you want to call it.In nature it takes care of it self.The strong eat the sick,why we don't do it??? Because we are people? Just because we have a bit more brain? We still only animals but we don't want to be so we invented a new word Humans or people right? If you like it or not some counties do take care of this problem only under different names such as Saddam Hussein who kill people he don't like but so did Hitler,Stalin,Fidel,Bush,Bush sen.Clinton,Reagan,Honecker,Ulbricht,Lenin,Hu Tsin Tao,Ho Shi Min,Trumann, I don't know all the names but you got the message? They all do it under what ever name.War, racesist,hate,terrorist etc. Right? Ok This is peoples way of balance the world but it isn't enough so let the hurricane roll.

Answer 9

For now I'll leave that one up to scientist.
The real question is, What can be done to help rebuild the lives and homes of those affected by the hurricanes that ripped through our nation this past year?

Answer 10

Nothing. Nor would you want to. Hurricanes are how nature rids itself of thermal energy. Now if there were a way to turn large hurricanes into several small ones with an equal net total energy loss, then that might be pursued.

Answer 11

Cut carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions and plant more trees. Improving fuel efficiency would work too.

The reason why there were so many hurricane s last year was because of the rise in temperature of the ocean. Cutting CO2 levels in the world would keep less heat in the atmosphere and make the earth cooler.