Who believes science will have the weather/climate pretty much under control by 2100...?

Question

I do. Certainly, as far as guaranteeing that (in any given region or nation) there'll be technicolour blue skies during the day and rain will only fall during the the early hours. Therefore, no more rain-checks at sporting events...

PLEASE NOTE...! - I DO NOT anticipate mankind's power to avert huge sizemic shifts... like Earthquakes and Volcanos, the atmospheric force of Hurricanes and Tornados or the oceanic surge of a Tsunami - just relatively simple day-to-day regulation of standard seasonal weather patterns. Frankly, the Russians have already been doing something very like it (though, admittedly, on a fairly limited local scale) for well over 40 years - so it shouldn't be too far beyond the capacity of a serious scientific campaign (and a vast reduction in weapon development...!)

Answer 1

i think the government all ready does that **** think of all the hurricanes lately and the places they happen

Answer 2

Not a Gaiaist then? You actually mean technology by the way, not science. Science doesn't control anything - it just says how things are. Technology is the appliance of science. Man has tried to control the planet through out history, to varied degrees of success.

The best way to affect nature, as many are appearing to learn, is to work with it. Controlling the weather has huge knock on effects regardless how much you are in control so is best avoided.

Come 2100 things are going to be beyond our imagination any way according to many as we may hit a 'technological singularity' in about 2060 - that is where technology advances at an exponential rate - machines become smarter than humans, humans become smarter than humans because of this and things become very strange. This might not happen but is being predicted by many.

Answer 3

Rubbish!

The energy required to create (or control) a Hurricane is enormous, and beyond any energy-creating ability we have today.
I recall a large huricane system is like the power of many 100s of H-bombs...!

Similarly the energy required for raising the earth's temperature by 1-2degC is enormous - and is having massive effects on global weather systems today. I dont see any even remotely feasible way to revserse that (well without stopping burning fossil fuels and waiting decades that is..!).

Even something simple like cloud-seeding (making a cloud that is allready carrying water to release that water and rain) has been less than sucessful..

You are living in a pipe-dream if you believe we can significantly change such massive systems as weather-systems..
Similarly global warming is a massive problem as well...
no easy answers there...

Study some thermodynamics to understand heat/mass transfer....then study weather systems....then try to get an idea of just how impossible to influence they are...!

(its taken us 100 years of fossil-fuel burnning just to raise CO2 and the earths temp by afew decC!!).

Sam
B.Eng

Answer 4

I highly doubt it. If so, we wouldn't have so much trouble with hurricanes and monsoons and such. I don't think we can learn to "regulate" such beastly things in a hundred years. That's basically playing god. Also, I doubt the Russians have done much; elsewise it wouldn't be so cold in their country.

Plus, if we try to regulate the weather/climate and succeed, think of what it would do to the ecosystems everywhere. Nature needs its current weather patterns. Changing it would put drastic effects on the earth. Even little things could make a big difference.

Answer 5

I don't think you appreciate the awesome power of the weather systems that are in our atmosphere. The energy in a tropical storm is far greater than the we can generate or control. If ever we did manage to have such control it would not be in any of our lifetimes

Answer 6

The energy expenditure will be enormous, and the revenues unimpressive.
No, even if we'll have the capacity we won't use it. It would be simpler to move everybody into artificial climate areas (air conditioned cities?) than to modify the climate.

Answer 7

I wish I could agree with you, even though I shall not be around then to see.
However, the reality is that we cannot control the life-pattern of the planet, although we might be able to slightly modify it.

Answer 8

Science cannot control the weather

God does

Lets not mess around with it, cos that makes things worse

Answer 9

What for to shine down on war zones?

Answer 10

Hmmm - doubt it - but we'll see