Weather and Climate Modification
The law of unintended consequences states that an intervention in a complex system always creates unanticipated, unpredictable and often undesirable outcomes. With regard to weather and climate consider various modification procedures:
1. Cloud seeding (by silver iodide crystals, dry ice pellets, salt, propane, infrared laser pulses) to induce rainfall
2. Hurricane modification:
a. lasers to discharge lightning
b. liquid nitrogen to cool ocean waters
c. soot or microwaves from satellites to warm up
outer wall and disrupt convection currents
3. ELF (Extreme Low Frequency) radio waves to cause a
high pressure system
4. Enormous mirrors or shades in orbit to increase or
decrease sunlight over certain areas
5. Seeding iron in oceans to promote growth of
plankton to extract carbon dioxide from atmosphere
For these and any other weather or climate modification schemes that you can come up with what might be some unintended consequences?
