We Have the Technology: New Study Argues Humanity Could Steer Hurricanes Using Existing Techniques
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A new study out of Arizona State University makes a provocative claim: that humanity might have the technologies needed to steer hurricanes away from populated areas.
If we could make it happen, steering hurricanes could save countless lives and property. The NOAA says that climate change is increasing the severity of storms, making the biggest hurricanes a larger proportion of all storms. Since a large hurricane can claim hundreds of lives and destroy tens of billions of dollars in value, that's obviously got a lot of people taking notice.
The paper, published in the journal PLOS Water, doesn't actually propose a single, definitive answer to the question of how to steer a hurricane. Instead, it proposes that it might be possible to trigger the release of rain using existing cloud seeding technologies.
The researchers titled their paper, "Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Prospects for atmospheric nudging to defuse the...
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