Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 1st, 2002
Technological advances over the next 30-50 years may make it possible to control the weather. If we can, should we? Are "weather wars: inevitable?
It had not been easy to persuade the surviving superpowers to relinquish their orbital fortresses and to hand them over to the Global Weather Authority, in what was-if the metaphor could be stretched that far-the last and most dramatic example of beating swords into plowshares. Now the lasers that had once threatened mankind directed their beams into carefully selected portions of the atmosphere, or onto heat-absorbing target areas in remote region...
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