[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread Mike MacCracken
You need to get more creative. Lowell Wood's idea some decades ago was orbiting mirrors in space that would redirect sunlight on to the storm. The problem remains, however, storm energy is huge, and it is not at all clear that such efforts could trigger a change, much less one would want and be

[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread John Latham
Hello All, A further possibility is to attempt to emasculate incipient hurricanes by cooling oceanic surface waters in regions where hurricanes spawn. One way of doing this would be to seed low-level shallow clouds in appropriate regions so as to increase their droplet number concentration and

[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread Mike MacCracken
Hi John—I certainly agree with you for dealing with storms generally—not sure you could do for a particular storm, which is what the question/suggestion related to. On 6/13/09 11:33 PM, John Latham john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Hello All, A further possibility is to attempt to

[geo] Re: Just in Time for Hurricane Season

2009-06-13 Thread John Latham
You are right, of course, Mike! Cheers, John. Quoting Mike MacCracken mmacc...@comcast.net: Hi John—I certainly agree with you for dealing with storms generally—not sure you could do for a particular storm, which is what the question/suggestion related to. On 6/13/09 11:33 PM, John