Controlling The Weather

This scholary article explores the idea of controlling the weather. They project in the next 30-50years we will have the abilities, but should we? Would this lead to weather wars? This will be a globally feat - as they will need to control the weather within the atmosphere as a whole. Scientists hypothesize the atmosphere as chaotic; it's chaotic nature implies there is a finite time where it becomes predictable. It has been theorized to have a particular architecture that if we could determine it, we could manipulate it.

They assume if we had control of the weather, we would not make everyday the same - continuously sunny or nice weather - but we would change it protect lives and property. Not stopping all weather but manipulating it to avoid disasters for populations. Doing so, legal and ethical issues come into it. Who controls the weather and who has the right to be completely selfless for mankind to do what is best for everyone? Below is the few factors that make the whole idea complicated.

"THE GLOBAL WEATHER CONTROL SYSTEM. The global weather control (GWC) system we envision is a feedback control system, made complicated by a number of factors. These include the following:

* The number of degrees of freedom required to represent the atmosphere adequately.

* The nonlinear nature of the governing equations. The atmosphere is nonlinear and sometimes discontinuous. For example, clouds have sharp edges.

* The paucity and inaccuracy of observations of the atmosphere. Satellites provide a huge volume of information. However this information is not always in the right place, accurate enough, or of the right type.

* The control must be effected at significant time lags to minimize the size of the perturbations, yet the system is inherently unpredictable at long lead times.

* The difficulty of effecting control. The control mechanisms do not yet exist. The ideal perturbations, while small in amplitude, may be large in scale.

* The ambiguous nature of the figure of merit. For inhabitants of New Orleans, eliminating a hurricane threat to that city may take precedence over all else. But in general attempting to satisfy multiple objectives may result in conflicts."

I am going to design a global weather controller.