Your question reminds me of "rain dances" which are evident that we can control the weather. Also, there is a guy Greg Braden (I think) who speaks about how a man prayed his town out of a drought and actually brought so mich water the town flooded. Also, I've heard that group meditation can lower the crime rate by a pretty large percentage; it makes me wonder if it could have the same affect on the weather.

Great question!

There are already people who admit to being able to alter their local environment, common examples being breezes. Having enough influence to affect more than ones immediate surroundings is a slightly larger question.

One can safely assume if we can create a small gust of wind around our hands, then with more energy the answer to your question would be a very big yes. The question is would we want to stop natural "disasters" (I dislike using this word to describe environmental events).

These events of nature are a compensation being performed by a much larger and stronger entity who understands its needs better than we do (Earth). Grass, trees, and topography serve as dampening forces which breakdown wind systems, otherwise I would conjecture we could have never-ending storms like we observe in other planets.

We could theoretically stop or start whatever we would want, but I believe the result wouldn't stop at that step, it would have repercussions as all things do.

As it stands I would say the fact there are people who can control the weather means there is a whole lot more to human potential than we are necessarily aware of, largely centered around control of ones own energy and manipulation of the energy around them. Will we ever be able to control the weather is an already yes. Will we ever stop storms and things like that? Sure, I don't see why not, but the issue is there is a reason for all of these things happening.

For example, we could forcefully stop the side effects of global warming, or stifle the Earth's natural weather cycles in one way or another such as preventing an ice age. However I'd say if we did these things whatever force being exerted starting these processes (such as pollution) would continue to build, and the amount of energy we would need to exert to hold back mother nature's attempts at balancing itself after we corrupt and imbalance it would increase. You can keep building bigger dams, but if or when it eventually breaks the resulting flood and consequences will also be bigger.

I believe it would be in our best interests to observe the phenomenon we would like to mitigate, decide if it is a beneficial event or decide if it is a result of another problem we should address instead, and then address the cause rather than using brawn to fight the effect.

Hmm. This answer didn't come out so well organized or articulated. My thoughts are a bit scattered at the moment. Anyway, cool question, thanks for asking.

Maybe we control the weather in Atlanta <grin>

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