to think that scientists should have discovered how to control the weather!

[ophelia275]

I am so sick of this sodding rain. Summer bah.

Scientists can split the atom but they can't give Blighty 3 months of nice summery weather. So much for global fucking warming.

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Scientists can't even predict the weather. Chaos theory means that any predictions more than 5 days ahead are probably inaccurate.

With the butterfly effect, do you want scientists potentially causing a climate disaster so that you can have a barbecue?

yes

The moment that they can do that, the planet is fucked.

Scientists can create weather. They can 'seed' clouds to make............... more rain !

My Henry has a powerful suck, I aimed it out of the window and it has sucked in all the clouds and I am now sitting on the sun lounger reading a book and getting a tan.
Henry is now dead though.....he didn't like water

We are already fucking the planet.
Controlling the weather will just speed up the process

Too many variables and as MrGin says clous seeding has been around since the 50's.

Allthough it is seen as a good thing. I think it's main reason was as a battlefield tactical weapon during the early years of the cold war.

When it goes wrong.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224475/China-overdoes-cloud-seeding-end-drought--blankets-Beijing-snow.html.

There has also been speculation that the Lynmouth flood in 1952, ( 34 people died), was either caused or was a factor by cloud seeding.

They can make rain clouds by throwing some kind of chemicals from planes. I heard that during the Olympics in china, they somehow "blew" away rain clouds so that it didn't rain during some games. Dunno if that's true or not. Agree about the shitty weather though. We had a lovely game of badminton in the garden last night and was looking forward to it again today, but fat chance. This rainy weather can fuck off.

Um... The scientists have been warning us for some time that we are causing this extreme weather by our behaviour! Politicians (and voters) haven't done much to avoid it, not really the scientists fault!

Lets hope the Cern scientists can develop Warp Drives soon and we can find a new planet each.

There was a children's programme when I was small called (I think) 'The Rain Gun'. It was about a scientist who had invented something which could control weather to aid mankind in growing of better crops. A 'baddie' scientist hijacked it and was threatening to use it for bad purposes . Just a seventies TV programme I know but I suppose it shows how things could be open to abuse.