END ALL HURRICANES-CBS-ORBITAL SUNSHADE

[weatherluvr]

All this seems to make no sense to me... if the purpose of hurricanes is to help balance the heat transfer between the tropics and the poles, what good would a "sunshade" do??? Even if it cooled down the tropics by 10 degrees or so, would it not also cool the poles down as well? Wouldn't there still be a heat imbalance?

[opera ghost]

All this seems to make no sense to me... if the purpose of hurricanes is to help balance the heat transfer between the tropics and the poles, what good would a "sunshade" do??? Even if it cooled down the tropics by 10 degrees or so, would it not also cool the poles down as well? Wouldn't there still be a heat imbalance?

He's trying to convince us that if we eliminate the hurricanes and make the earth a pleasent spring at all times... that there won't be any hurricanes.

You're getting right to the point- there WOULD be an imbalance- and instead of having hurricanes to help deflect it- we'd have nada. Oops. Icea age.

Removing summer and putting perpetual sping and deep winters in it's place IS an ice age. Lowering the temperatures to that extent woudl drastically change the entire world. Oops.

Bad idea.

[bahamaswx]

I could see using it as a last resort in some sort of worst-case scenario that I can't even begin to imagine at this time. Other than that I see no reason to even attempt such a thing, seems better just to try and live with hurricanes. Not to mention I enjoy tracking them... so what would I do if there were none?

[Air Force Met]

Hey John...this is the worst idea imaginable for management of hurricanes. Hurricanes are nature's way of transportnig heat and they are more necessary than you or I. Remove them and the poles will cool. It will not be May year round. It will be January from October through April. Crops will not be as productive...the economy of the world will collapse. Due to the heat sheilds taking heat from the tropics and cooling it to may temps in August, the gulf stream will slowly weaken and Europe will cool.

Still want the sunshade? It is a horrible idea.

[john186292]

Philosophical overview..
ONE reflect back on the progress science has made since the year 1,000. Heavier than air flight, moon landing, smallpox ended, DNA decoded, etc.
TWO...project your mind to the year 3,000. Now look back across the years from two thousand to three thousand. In 3,000, weather control will have every day as a day in May, at every location on earth. Now envision when each step to that goal was achieved, and envision just how it was accomplished. Someone had to do the inventing. It is just a matter of time. The sooner, the better. Inventing got us from the feeble science of 1,000 AD to today's science. It will roar forward during the next thousand years. Hurricanes will be tossed by the roadside.
To expand one's mind, consider Dyson spheres, Matrioska ..misspelled i know...brains, terraforming of mars, Type II civilizations, Tulane U.'s valid tube for time travel ...not buildable yet...but valid plan..., entangled particles with instantaneous communication, acausal quantum events, and the possibilities within the unexplained areas of quantum mechanics.
John New Orleans

[obxhurricane]

Stopping TC development would only enhance Global Warming...err...that is if you believe in Global Warming.

I hope to God that we never try this.

[Derek Ortt]

I happen to work in the field, John, and you continue to provide me with good laughs and I may be sharing these posts with my office mates as early as tomorrow. What you are saying is completely absurred about pholisophy and the like. You dont want heat transfer? You want everything like May? You are begging for an uninhabitable planet, and yes, if a clown is elected and impliments these principles, then one, I will use all means necessary to resist as I am not going to allow someone to do something that makes me unable to work (I do research TC's, no TC's means I am unemployed) and then I will be searching for an inhabitable planet, not the ice bos that the non-tropics are and Mercury, which the tropics would turn into.

Also, how in the world would the heat tranfer occur. You cannot stop the Hadley Cell and the other circulations from occurring. Please provide some ideas

[john186292]

Sorry about leaving some unemployed, after ending hurricanes.

10,000 DEAD. But that is better than the ten thousand dead in Hounduras just a few years back. Surely a person of your considerable intellect could retrain into a related field, like terraforming Mars.

Hurricanes must go. During May, the north is not an ice box, and the tropics are not Mercury.

MAY CAN BE ACHIEVED. Yet my goal, few to no hurricanes, is achieved in May. The heat transfer which normally happens in May, would continue at that rate. It well might be desirable to warm the arctic, if their temperatures fall. I have briefly seen mention of a Soviet plan for orbital mirrors to add heat to their Siberian area.

I would really like to read of stumbling blocks to overcome. Those who know of problems with my plan, post them. But post them in polite language, or I will stop reading where it gets abusive. Your stumbling blocks will never be shown to me as a result. If you want to make me abandon the idea, present some stumbling blocks politely. Otherwise, if abusive, i will never know of your points. Half of the prior post went unread for that reason.

VIEWS BASED ON EVIDENCE..OR EMOTION? I am bemused to see people in science speaking so emotionally. Ladies and gentlemen, do not forget how to disagree politely. Present evidence, not vitriol, to win a scientific debate.

FOR AN ELEVATED LEVEL OF DISCOURSE, I REMAIN YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT, ETC,
John New Orleans