Why can't we control droughts?

Question

Meteorologists and scientists need only reply.

Why can't we take a hotbed like Texas was over the winter, burning and blaxing with wildfires, or drought-ridden areas, and fly sorties of C5s filled with H2O from the Gulf of Mexico and drench the land?

Why couldn't we have saturated Easter Africa in the '60s, '70s, '80s, Biafra, Ethiopia, etc., with water?

Water has a cooling effect. Wouldn't it help in heat waves, droughts, fires?

Would it upset the fragile balance of our ecosystem?

I highly recommend the Life Magazine special edition on newstands right now, "Nature's Extremes." Some stuff scares me worse than radical Islam... and Christianity, for that matter.

Answer 1

Well, actually some degree of droughts may be man-made. Recently, the show Nova (PBS) had an episode on global dimming. Global dimming is caused by pollution in the air blocking out the sun's energy. It has masked global warming, which is now believed to be much worse than previously thought. While much of meteorology is still guess work, the principles behind global dimming are based on testable hypotheses-- They can test evaporation rates, and measure pollution in the air, etc. This global dimming may be responsible for disrupting global weather patterns, and may be responsible for some of the African droughts-- You can check it out more at ...

Answer 2

Good rainfall is 30-50 inches of rain per year. That's 3-4 feet of water over the entire area.

Airplanes cannot deliver that amount of water. I doubt they could even deliver one tenth of one percent of that much water.

The water would obviously have to be brought in from VERY far away, too.

Scientists are still not even sure of how the sun affects our weather patterns..........we have a long way to go before we can evenly distribute the humidity in the air......then turn it into rain.



There are a LOT of god articles and links here:

http://www.livescience.com/environment/050505_earth_bright.html






We know very little.

Answer 3

1. The Gulf is salt water and which will poison most plant life.
2. There aren't enough planes in the world to duplicate rain.
3. Cloud seeding is illegal.

Answer 4

How are you going to make this happen?

Do you have the money for all of your ideas?

Did you know the Gulf of Mexico has salt water?

Get a shovel and dig a trench and get the water that way.

Answer 5

Cloud patterns are currently too complicated to predict. There are a huge amount of variables. With the largest and fastest computers in the U.S. working on it, There is still a lot of study to be done.

Perhaps if you are young, you may choose to pursue it as a career goal.

Answer 6

droughts and famines are man made. the westernisation of agriculture . going for high yielding, indiscriminate use of fertilisers, pro liberal , multinational companies backed government policies are responsible for drought.