From: "Robert Comer" 

> Look at that, notice all the dark spots on land, now consider that besides
> those dark areas you have 3/4 of the planet covered by water. We really
> don't inhabit much of this planet at all.

Yep.

> Tell me again how much affect you think mankind has on the atmosphere. Do
> you think if we really worked at it we could make some insignificant
> change like say countering the Santa Anna winds for a day? I mean if we
> are so significant, lets see us do something that is as powerful as an
> insignificant tiny little weather event like a localized thunderstorm,
> make it change course even...

I think we have a much greater effect than you seem to, but that's really
secondary to my point, cause *doesn't* matter.

>Do you think if we really worked at it we could make some insignificant
>change like say countering the Santa Anna winds for a day?

Not directly with our current tech, no, but that doesn't mean we cannot
effect the conditions that create something like a santa anna.

> I mean if we are so significant, lets see us do something that is as
> powerful as an insignificant tiny little weather event like a localized
> thunderstorm, make it change course even...

We will be able to eventually, and even now we can effect thunderstorms by
cloud seeding. (set off a nuke in the middle of a storm I bet it goes away
too. )

This attitude that we can't do anything is no different than the attitude
that people had about earth being the center of the universe and flat, and
of those that said if man were meant to fly, we'd have had wings, and
various other things that we can't do but eventually did.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>
>> I would have to argue with him on that, simply because *we* were never
>> here pumping vast amounts of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) into the
>> atmosphere before and that just may upset his natural balance.
>
> Remember that picture of the lights on earth showing where civilization
> was, it was one of those space pictures of the day or something?
>
> Look at that, notice all the dark spots on land, now consider that besides
> those dark areas you have 3/4 of the planet covered by water. We really
> don't inhabit much of this planet at all.
>
> Now remember that the atmosphere goes miles high.
>
> Tell me again how much affect you think mankind has on the atmosphere. Do
> you think if we really worked at it we could make some insignificant
> change like say countering the Santa Anna winds for a day? I mean if we
> are so significant, lets see us do something that is as powerful as an
> insignificant tiny little weather event like a localized thunderstorm,
> make it change course even...
>
> Ok how about we just make as much difference as one volcanic eruption,
> just a tiny little pimple on the face of the planet can make a .2 degree
> temperature drop in a year. Surely we are capable of matching that tiny
> little event?
>
> Geo.

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