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Interesting reading????

#1 Postby BUD » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:42 pm

What is your opinion???Read the hurricane below,scoll down a little.

http://www.weatherwars.info
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#2 Postby coriolis » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:58 am

My opinion: There's probably people who are very serious about this, but they vastly over estimate the ability of humans to have any significant effect on the weather. Think about this: It took the entire human race hundreds of years to have even a debatable effect (global warming) on the weather. A small group of people may be doing experiments, but they are so infinitessimally limited in their resources that anything they do would be extremely localized and temporary. I can build a bonfire that creates a smoke plume. You could argue that this smoke plume would affect the weather over my yard. You look at that from a satellite view, and then suddenly zoom out to a global view. It's nothing in the grand scheme of things. The earth and the weather systems are so mind numbingly vast that even the resources of an entire nation would be able to cause an insignificant effect. Take cloud seeding, for instance. In some cases, they can wring some water out the atmosphere. All it does is create some rain at one time and place, and thereby prevent an equal amount of rain from happening in another time and place. It doesn't create or destroy any water - it just shifts it ever so slightly. I can make a spark with a 12-volt battery and a piece of wire. That doesn't meain that I can create lightning.

I am extremly skeptical of any effects of energy fields on the weather. Sure, there are ways to ionize molecules and make them behave differently. But considering all the energy that can be produced and concentrated, and compare that to the vastness of the earth, it's stupefying. Consider those satellite photos of the earth at night. You take all the energy that's being used in an entire city. It just makes a tiny dot of light on the entire photo. And this energy is of a very low intensity. The energy required to start making molecular changes must have a flux many orders of magnitudes greater. Take that dot of light and reduce it in size by 1,000 times. It would disappear!

As a person who has been educated in the sciences, I think that there could be legitimate scientific principles behind what they are doing, but considering the practical limitations, I put it in the category of junk science, like cold fusion.

There's no end of serious 'researchers' out there that get an idea and make exagerated claims to feed their ego and obtain funding.
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