05-22-2016, 04:30 AM
When I researched this and really got into it, I was shocked to find that weather manipulation is not only common and accepted....publicly accepted....in a wide variety of other nations, but that it has been a part of national efforts for as many as 50 years time now. Israel having been one of the pioneers and longest in working on manipulation of and development of technology to exploit the environment.
Israel is far from alone though, and some reading out there will soon turn up extensive and historic use in India, Indonesia, China, Saudi, Yemen, and others. Africa was a new frontier coming as I was researching the topic, and largely for lax regs but potentially high profit crop land if rain could come where it doesn't naturally occur in enough quantity to farm.
Indeed....my fear isn't that global efforts have broken the climate, because Human technology and scale of effort just isn't up to the task of deliberately changing something so large and complex to see an outcome anyone wanted. No.... My fear is that the additional chaos of so many uncoordinated efforts, and nations giving absolutely no consideration to how regional efforts could overlap and combine with downwind regions for unintended consequences...have broken the climate in a way no MEANINGFUL effort ever could have.
I think we could well have nudged some thresholds and balances out of whack by all that artificial effort ...and I really doubt we can even be sure with our science just WHAT balances most mattered to keep or restore at this stage....if it even works that way to fix?
Israel is far from alone though, and some reading out there will soon turn up extensive and historic use in India, Indonesia, China, Saudi, Yemen, and others. Africa was a new frontier coming as I was researching the topic, and largely for lax regs but potentially high profit crop land if rain could come where it doesn't naturally occur in enough quantity to farm.
Indeed....my fear isn't that global efforts have broken the climate, because Human technology and scale of effort just isn't up to the task of deliberately changing something so large and complex to see an outcome anyone wanted. No.... My fear is that the additional chaos of so many uncoordinated efforts, and nations giving absolutely no consideration to how regional efforts could overlap and combine with downwind regions for unintended consequences...have broken the climate in a way no MEANINGFUL effort ever could have.
I think we could well have nudged some thresholds and balances out of whack by all that artificial effort ...and I really doubt we can even be sure with our science just WHAT balances most mattered to keep or restore at this stage....if it even works that way to fix?