Can We Control the Weather?Can We Control the Weather? This aerial photo shows devastation caused by the high winds and heavy flooding in the greater New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
Sun, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. ET/PT In Can We Control the Weather, explorer Josh Bernstein investigates whether scientists will ever be able to tame one of Nature's most destructive forces: hurricanes. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some scientists believe that global warming will make superstorms more frequent — and even more deadly. As leading climatologist Greg Holland says, "Where a hurricane might have been a category 5 in the current climate we might have to invent a category 6." Bernstein investigates the cutting-edge science that could one day be used to weaken or divert hurricanes, and uncovers the fascinating — and sometimes sinister — history of weather manipulation. He also explores the massive political and moral dilemmas that playing God with the weather would bring. Along the way he does some seriously hands-on research: firing storm debris at skyscraper glass, making it rain in Texas, and even putting himself in the firing line of hurricane force winds. |
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