Do you believe, man can control the weather?

Question

Do you believe, man can control the weather?

Answer 1

Yes, by introducing chemicals into the air. I think alot of carbon at a specific time in the weather cycle can produce storms. Though don't quote me on that one. But, to have total control of the weather, I fear is impossible.

Answer 2

Yes. and i will tell you why:

U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy was proposed in 2005. Although this bill never became a law, the mere fact that a bill was proposed to cover this matter is synonim of a real intention of modifying the weather by artificial means and the existence of a technology to do so.

an extract from the bill:

"Specifies activities related to weather modification that may be included under the program, including: (1) interdisciplinary research and coordination of research and activities to improve understanding of processes relating to weather modification, including cloud modeling, cloud seeding, improving forecast and decision-making technologies, related severe weather research, and potential adverse affects of weather modification; (2) development, through partnerships among federal agencies, states, and academic institutions, of new technologies and approaches for weather modification; and (3) scholarships and educational opportunities that encourage an interdisciplinary approach to weather modification."

You make your conclusions.

Answer 3

I wish man can control weather.  It would make me job as a forecaster so much easier.  :-)

Man has tried to control weather, but past modifications has shown that mother nature can be very difficult to predict and control.  Man has tried for good and bad reasons.  The results from these experiments proved that changes we thought we had made also resulted in things we hadn't expected.  It also likely caused longer term changes than what the experiment was trying to accomplished.  

Examples: Cloud seeding in order to bring more rain to dry areas.  This often resulted in more rain falling in areas we don't need and less rain in the areas we want.  

  

In my opinion, if we can't forecast near 100 percent out 48 hours, we should not be messing around mother nature.  Any changes that we can't predict in this complex world of weather and climate may result in very negative way.  Who is going to answer to people hurt or killed just because we want a little more rain in an usually dry area for that time period?  If we can safely predict what our attempts for change will produce, then maybe it may be okay.  But for now, I think we still have a lot to learn about how to forecast the weather better before we try these types of weather modification.

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

man no

god

yeah

Answer 6

No, absolutely not.  We "might" be able to make a very minor localized effect, known as weather modification, in actions such as cloud seeding or large scale irrigation adding moisture to the local atmosphere, but other than that we are powerless to make large scale changes in weather patterns and events for either good or bad.

Answer 7

If man can control the weather, he's not doing a very good job of it....  (though I do think the technology may be available one day....)

Answer 8

No LOL... and i don't believe "God" does either!

Answer 9

YES MAN COULD CONTROL WEATHER

Answer 10

there are ways

like i think there are ways to 'blow' clouds away

and by adding CO2 in the air, we are at risk of global warming

if you plant a tree, it will release more water vapour into the air, creating clouds.

Answer 11

There is something called "the butterfly paradox." The idea is that a butterfly wings in the African jungle can cause a storm over North America months later. This is actually the base of what is known as the theory of chaos and fractal equations.

The idea came to a meteorologist in the 50s as he was experimenting with what was one of the first computer to model the weather at the time. Because he didn't wanted to wait and re-run the entire program, he simply typed in the data recorded for half-simulation and started from there. To his amazement, the end result was now entirely different from what he had before. Simply because the rounding of his numbers from binary to decimal was not entirely the same.

In that respect, and aided by the Quantum principle of uncertainty, we have to leave the old Newtonian dream of a predictable universe where the future could be predicted (including the weather) and manipulated if only we find the "law of everything."

This is not going to happen.

Answer 12

yes.... but only one.... thats Zhuge Liang. He is from the romance of the three kingdoms. He lived during 280s AD

Answer 13

Yeah, it's called cloud seeding. Haha. But no, not the way you're implying.