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On 10/10/2024 12:05 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <ve8ims$35ihc$2@dont-email.me>,
> Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/10/2024 1:56 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 10/9/24 18:30, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> “Did Hurricane Milton Have Help in Suddenly Becoming One of the Most
>>>>> Powerful Storms in History?”
>>>>> https://thelibertydaily.com/did-hurricane-milton-have-help-suddenly-
>>>>> becoming-one/
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, I have heard it all now.  Apparently the USA government has a storm
>>>>> enhancer machine using lasers and has used it to accelerate hurricanes
>>>>> Helene and Milton from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5 and targeted red areas to
>>>>> suppress the votes in the upcoming presidential election.
>>>>
>>>> It's not the USA government, it's Sony Pictures, and it's not red areas,
>>>> it's the Vatican.
>>>> --scott
>>>
>>>       When I was much younger the Hearst Newspapers frequently published
>>> claims that the Russians or the Communist Chinese had
>>> learned to control the weather. They also worried about an impending
>>> ice age or any other matter than might rouse the sleeping
>>> mass man into buying more newspapers, "lest doom creep upon them
>>> unknowing".
>>>       Hearst also though made public the results of scientific
>>> investigation which foretold long droughts in California's past
>>> and in our future.
>>
>> If "the Joos" could control the weather, Israel would be a much
>> greener place.
>>
>> If a nation secretly gained the ability to control the weather,
>> then we might notice that nation NOT having droughts, hurricanes,
>> and blizzards.
>>
>> The absence of such good weather leads me to believe no one does.
> 
> Interesting trivia: Santa Catarina Island (also known as the Magic
> Island) has only ever been hit with one hurricane in all of recorded
> history. Just as well, as I sat out a tropical storm there and that
> was pretty terrifying.
> 
> (Ontario is almost as lucky but sometimes hurricanes don't quite get used
> up on Americans)
> 
> I wonder how long it would take to discover steering bad weather away
> has undesirable secondary effects along the lines of what happens if
> you stop all forest fires long enough for deep piles of kindling to
> pile up.

That last is an interesting question. One difference is that forest
fires are linked to the fuel load; after a fire, that area is unlikely
to burn again for a long time. Its a negative feedback loop, and creates
a semi-regular periodicity to fires, if humans don't interfere. Plants
and animals can adapt to that.

Hurricanes aren't sensitive to a 'has this area had a hurricane lately?'
test. We're seeing this in Florida right now. They hit a give area
pretty randomly - a hundred year gap might be followed by a two week
one.

I don't know if the current ecology would drift without occasional
random hurricanes. Perhaps its would.

pt