Bem, não exatamente. Mas alguns cientistas julgam ser possível fazer algo como aquecer uma boa parte do oceano em um determinado ponto, e assim fazer um furacão desviar o seu rumo para um lugar seguro. É dispendioso, mas talvez pudesse ser em alguns casos mais barato do que os danos que seriam causados por um furacão.
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It's long been a dream that we might someday be able to control our weather. Imagine being able to avoid drought and floods, moderate storms and generally try to avoid the worst of Mother Nature's wrath. When scientists dream, reality follows.
Many researchers think that it may be possible to modify the weather, perhaps on a large scale. As a matter of fact, many researchers point out that we're doing it unintentionally already, as pollution and global warming modify our weather. Weather control, in the near term, will probably involve cloud seeding — injecting small particles into clouds to stimulate precipitation.
That's the sort of thing that Mr. Jim Renick, the director of the Alberta Hail Suppression Program does, by trying to trigger rain or snowfall before it turns into dangerous hail. Current methods of cloud seeding are of dubious effectiveness, though. That's why researchers like Dr. Roelof Bruintjes from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research is looking into new techniques, to improve the reliability and productivity of cloud seeding. Larger manipulations of the weather, like moving the jet stream to bring moisture to the desert, or steering hurricanes away from populated areas are a more difficult task. Dr. Ross Hoffman, the Vice President of Research at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a Massachusetts Consulting firm, thinks that chaos theory will be the secret to modifying these events. Weather is a chaotic system, so small changes as a storm or weather system develops, can have a big effect on how it eventually behaves.
The difficulty will be determining what changes to make. Weather systems are so big, that even relatively small changes are also quite big by human standards, and might require energy sources like solar power satellites and other exotic technology. If we do learn how to control the weather, we'll have to be prepared for the potential problems it might bring. Changes in the environement are only part of the story. Dr. Joe Friday, Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and President of the American Meteorolgical Society, thinks that weather modifications might bring on the possibility of weather wars, either disputes over how to change the weather, or even using weather as a weapon of war.
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