This past week has been pretty rainy with some nasty storms in my neck
of the country (PA's lower Susquehanna valley) and it started me on the
path of thinking about weather control.  At higher tech levels, there
are varying degrees of weather control, with "advanced weather control"
showing up at TL 12.  While I'm sure that when it was in use, that it
would be to make the world more hospitable, both for the population and
any agricultural endeavors, what has me intrigued is what would happen
if the ability to control the weather was suddenly lost?

Would the weather slowly revert back to the pre-weather control behavior
or would it whipsaw back and forth, going from what it was (before the
loss) to something far worse than it ever was, then back to something
almost as good as it used to be to something far worse but not as bad as
the last cycle, etc.?  Or would something else happen entirely?

I'm picturing an Earth-like world that stabilized the weather patterns
to ensure widespread weather patterns that kept temps in the 70s
(22C-25C) with regular fronts that brought gentle precipitation, and
pretty much turned it into an Eden with a year round growing
season...and then for whatever reason (unforeseen single point of
failure, terrorists, conflict, etc.) the apparatus that controls the
weather suddenly stops.  Or, to really make things hellish, malfunctions
with the setting set to "FUBAR".

Kurt

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Kurt Feltenberger
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“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me