On May 21, 2018, at 1:54 AM, Rob O'Connor <xxxxxx@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

You are better off perturbing packets of atmosphere before they become unstable. The problem is there's no good way of picking the right chunk in terms of size and position.
Weather is chaotic.

No, no no…you’re supposed to target that butterfly flapping it’s wings in Brazil, no not THAT one…THAT one over there, by the vine, with extreme prejudice….:-P

I think the rules about weather control were written in a vastly more optimistic era of profound ignorance. We’re well into a uncontrolled 100+year experiment in the stuff and the only thing we know is ‘things will get worse’… planetary weather scales are huge, and involve gargantuan amounts of energy as Rob points out.

We’ve made the changes we’ve done by cramming the effect of continuously burning all the forests in the world for tens of thousands of years…into about 100 years. Now, if we could arrange to have a Mt. Pinatubo-scale eruption every year for about 10-25 years, we might be able to counteract what we’ve done long enough to bring things back to ‘normal’.