Controlling the Global Weather

The key factor enabling control of the weather is that the atmosphere is sensitive to small perturbations. That is, it is the very instability of the atmosphere’s dynamics that makes global weather control a possibility. The Earth’s atmosphere may be chaotic, and very likely is very sensitive to small perturbations. Certainly very simple nonlinear dynamical models of the atmosphere are chaotic, and the most realistic numerical weather prediction models are very sensitive to initial conditions. Extreme sensitivity to initial conditions implies that small perturbations to the atmosphere can effectively control the evolution of the atmosphere, if the atmosphere is observed and modeled sufficiently well.