Let’s just assume you are not joking, for the sake of discussion. Who pays if you steer the hurricane away from New Orleans, and it hits Galveston?

My personal favorite? Glad you asked. We will install wind turbines with giant batteries, and when a hurricane comes, we will reverse the power and turn them into giant fans, shearing off the storm. D’oh! I just gave away my billion dollar idea!

Obviously, you haven’t looked into the two links I put in my comment.

Yeah, Ray I did. Like I said. About as scary as the melting ice caps and sea level rise. Those Norwegians really got it in for us.

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Holy macaroni Challie… I gotto get more organizized, eh?

“From a little drop-out with an idea and a garage for a factory he deserves some respect”.

You are right on the drop-out but wrong on the garage.
I think you confuse Microsoft with Apple here.

Or did they all start in a garage?

Anyhow, I lost my respect using his software.

If thinking about science to you consists of head counting opinions based on press accounts and the *Wikipedia*, fer [explitive deleted], could you please explain why you come here and comment?

We can read the papers too. This argument is not, as it seems to a lot of people who believe in global warming seem to think, about *reading comprehension*, it is about independent *critical thinking*. If you don’t think that is possible, once again, why bother? What can you say that we haven’t heard a million times? A more effective use of your time might be to answer our objections to things like use of Wikipedia as a source, and bringing up a temperature record which this blog has dedicated tremendous effort on the part of a lot of people to either validate or invalidate.

Even if true (and I think that’s changed), this is argumentum ad populum (the head-count argument) a classic form of fallacious logic, proving nothing. Remember, majority view once held that the planet was 150 million years old, that bleeding was the proper treatment for pneumonia, that the Earth was the center of the universe. How many times have we all seen the “consensus of experts” suddenly proved wrong, on everything from carcinogenic saccharine to Saddam’s WMD?

I believe you when you say you “look on the near future of humanity and Earth with a distinctly worried eye”. It may explain your suseptibility to doomsday prophesy. Myself, I was born with the skepticism that makes a true scientist–if only I had the brains to go with it.

This is a first-rate site. I hope you’ll visit often.

Obviously, you haven’t looked into the two links I put in my comment.

Pull bottom water through an insulated pipe to the surface and eject the water say 1000ft into the air.

You don’t have to do this all the time. You would only need to do it in the area in front of the hurricane that is threatened by a landfall.

I’m not too serious about this, but here is a back of the envelope calculation.

To heat 1Kilo of water 1C. takes 4186 Joules

Energy released through clouds/rain by a Hurricane during 24 hours, 5.2×10^19 Joule.

Too warm up 1000 liters, or one ton of water from say 0C to 26C takes 109 million Joules.

How much ice-cold water would have to be pumped into the air to nullify the energy in a hurricane?? My calculation is 5.5 million tonnes per second… I might be off somewhere. But still, that is an enormous amount of water to be pumped into the air…

Maybe we could cool it a little…. But, with these kind of numbers, it all is out of our range.

You would need one gigantic pump for that…

35 U.S.C. 114

“Models, specimens.
The Director [of the Patent Office] may require the applicant to furnish a model of convenient size to exhibit advantageously the several parts of his invention.”