Steering Hurricanes?

[Mikey Gribble]

I came across this on Drudge Report this morning. All I have to say is get real and think serious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml

 

[Josh Morgerman]

These articles periodically appear, and they always promote the same carnival schemes involving black dust, diaper gel, nukes, and so on. In my opinion, the money and intellectual energy would be better spent on forecast-oriented research and preparedness-- for example, ways to make cities like New Orleans less vulnerable in the first place. As the NHC so eloquently puts it, rather than trying to screw with natural processes, maybe the answer is to learn how to better coexist with them.

 

[Kiel Ortega]

There was something about at least one of these on a Discovery Channel show. The big problem is how the studies handle the clouds. We don't really understand clouds nor can we really model them nicely; so some studies will only use water in the cloud with no ice or use all ice. As is usually the case with studies like these, the whole experiment is (probably) not being explained. Just an FYI to those not used to modeling studies: the devil is incredibly in the details; and sometimes the details are not real world at all!

 

[Mikey Gribble]

I wonder if they've considered the possibility of this making the hurricane angry and hence making it stronger? Maybe I should right a paper on this and see if I can get it published in the Telegraph.

 

[Jerry Prsha]

I came across this on Drudge Report this morning. All I have to say is get real and think serious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml

Just the fact that you read the Drudge report is scary in it's own right...

 

[Mikey Gribble]

You do realize Jerry that the Drudge Report is simply posting links to other news outlets stories, like the Washington Times, New York Times, and in this instance the UK Telegraph. Only extremely rarely are their articles posted on there by Matt Drudge himself, and so what if there were. I fail to understand how going to the Drudge Report to pick up the days headlines is scary. It's no different than any other website that posts links to OTHER NEWS OUTLETS stories for the day. I hope you also realize that it gets millions upon millions of visitors, so there must be a lot of scary people out there. It's the equivalent of me posting a link to Mike Hollingshead's website on mine and then you criticize me for the content on his site. It makes no sense.

 

[Dave Gallaher]

I guess that someone in those projects will also come up with a plan on how to deal with the effect on oceanic life when all that black rubber, diaper gel or whatever other compound eventually finds its way down.