My Reynolds investment is about to pay off in spades :)

why dont we just build two mile high walls around the coast, we could keep out illegal aliens, inclement weather, terrorists, and whatever else we want, and then put a dome over the entire US and we could put sprinkler heads all over the roof, live in our own greenhouse emissions and control our morbid existence a few years longer.... sweet

We're cloudbusting, daddy...

mattymomostl: why dont we just build two mile high walls around the coast, we could keep out illegal aliens, inclement weather, terrorists, and whatever else we want, and then put a dome over the entire US and we could put sprinkler heads all over the roof, live in our own greenhouse emissions and control our morbid existence a few years longer.... sweet

Yeah, and we could man it with volenteers and criminals and disgraced Hedge Knights and...

I gotta stop reading George R R Martin.

Uh, isn't that what they already are doing with HAARP in Alaska?

/needs more tinfoil plz thx

happydorkgirl

They will not go back to hurricane modification. That opens a huge legal pandoras box if they hit land.

trying to stop climate change and with it more aggressive weather is too hard for the us.. instead you guys want to control the weather?

so that's why people wanna buy oil in euros..

/shakes head

I'm sure someone made a film about this.

I remember it not only turning out badly, but being bad as well. Double secret probation, perhaps?

Stupidest thing I have heard this year...and that's saying something.

/not impressed

Sounds like they're just dreaming up some new ways to waste bales of taxpayer money, to me.

"and the rain should stop right....about....now!"

/bttf2

And while it's still a bit of a long shot, Uncle Sam could be called in to sponsor research to find ways to blast dangerous storms out of the sky or put rain clouds over parched land.

Typical of government-- if you can't control it, blow it up.

/if you can't bulldoze it or seize it first

"Its not nice to fool with Mother Nature" Hahahahahahaa

From the article:
"This is a fascinating subject to me, and the idea that we can actually impact weather is exciting, and I guess, frightening in some ways," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said during a November hearing on a bill that could start up a federal weather modification research program.
God surrenders.

Great, millions more in wasted money. Stopping a hurricane is a fantasy, nothing more.

Wait a minute - I thought that Jesus controlled the weather?

Uncle Sam could be called in to sponsor research to find ways to blast dangerous storms out of the sky

The weather? Is there anything left America won't blast, shoot, bomb, or otherwise destroy???

Global Warming/Climate Change Deniers: "We haven't studied the world's climate long enough to really know what's going on. We don't know why things happen. Man can't possibly effect the climate in a meaningful way. Let's build a weather control device."

Ah consistency. A foreign concept to the Republican Party.

AAAHahahahahahah......ahahahahahaha

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Let's forget about figuring out why weather get more screwed up every year and concentrate on building a weather-control device. Or better, just blow the weather up, that'll fix it. (It worked for Iraq, didn't it?)

How DO these guys take themsleves seriously anymore? Somebody please post the picture of the guy with his head right up his ass.

Hmm tell me how giving humans the ability to control the weather is a good idea?

/I cant wait to see when we stop hurricanes and see everything west of the rockies turn into a farking dustbowl...

It figures that this would get greenlighted when it appears on Faux News. I've been involved in weather modification since grad school over 20 years ago. The great majority of this science has to do with precipitation augmentation and hail suppression. These are very benign and the most feasible, snowfall augmentation, adds about 0.01" per hour (about 10% over a winter increase). Hurricanes are a different story - much harder to modify successfully. But unless there's a research budget, we'll never have any chance.

And yes, the legal hurdles to successful hurricane modification may well be more difficult to overcome than the scientific ones. Also, $10M/year is a drop in the bucket compared to building dams, desalinization etc. for increasing precious water supplies in the West.

Weather modification (cloud seeding with dry ice) has been known and done since the 1940s, started by Vincent Schaefer. It is done annually in 10 states and over 60 foreign countries. Therefore it is NOT new, folks.

As it's well established that hurricanes are caused by butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazone, isn't this just another way to slush funds to South American dictators?

Sudden urge to play Red Alert 2 as the allies...

Someone's gotta have a pic of Richard Pryor from Superman III...

You know, the weather control doohickey that needed both keys inserted at the same time....

Farkers, help me out here.......

Of course those that control the weather will only utilize it for the greater good of society. "Mr President, What do you mean if I don't vote for your Social Security bill that you'll bring hail to my congressional district?"

"Our short-term objective is to stay on the hunt and bring the storms to justice before they hurt us again," the president said at a political event. "I'd rather be sploding them there than face them here at home."

If you want to know the true, much less alarmist, status of Federal government weather modification, try here

Obvious?

They're ratifying the Kyoto Accord?

/late to the party
//didn't RTFA
///Slashie virgin!!!
////Just like sex, the first time you try it goes by quick
/////But you can do it again very soon after

Sweeeeeet.

Typhon: Obvious?


Very.

I have an unsettling story about haarp, but I don't know if it's a thing to post online... I'll be back after I think about it.

For some reason that "CRAAAZY" weatherman story comes to mind where he was mentioning something about governments and private interest groups controlling the weather. Now since most of the american flock has deemed it batshiat crazy I guess this story has zero relevance.\ the weathermans name is Scott Stevens \\no he is not craaaaazy \\\yes faux news has been known to juice up thier sensationalism every now and then \\\\off to graze with the rest of the sheep, and harvest some more slashies!

Weather modification has been going on for quite some time now, google silver iodine.

This whole concept is farking hilarious to me. Lets just live in big climate-controlled bubbles and get it over with.

drunkMSUguy, go have another drink. It's silver IODIDE.

Nice to see that cloning, and abortion, are both "playing god" yet creating / changing weather isn't. Oh wait, [i]Mother Nature[/i] controls the weather, not "God"

I thought they already had this thing in place...

I thought controlling the weather is what caused all of the destrcutive hurricanes this year. Some other country beat us to the punch.

"exciting, and I guess, frightening in some ways," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said in describing Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.

Haven't we been researching this for a while? We signed a UN treaty in the 70s to try and prevent weather mod technology from being used for "hostile purposes". I find it funny that a treaty was made for technologies that "might be developed in the future".