Posted On: August 8, 2006, 2:08 pm CDT

Posted By: ah, I don't think so

Didn't they try to seed hurricanes in the 1960's, but they stopped when they concluded they may have made one that hit worse?

Here's a better idea: Instead of trying to tame Mother Nature (and tempt her revenge), why not encourage people not to build homes a few feet from the ocean? Or maybe take all the money that would go to weather alteration and put it toward something truly innovative...such as effective preparedness and mitigation?

But that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as soaking up taxpayer dollars trying to change the weather.

By the way, one of those scientists said weather change due to global warming were "inadvertant." Like heck it is. For 100 years, we've run the world's economy by burning things and letting the smoke go into the atmosphere. Now, we're starting to pay the price. It's like smoking cigarettes for 50 years...sooner or later they'll kill you.