Keeping with the star trek theme, in the days of the Federation, humans have learned the ability to control all aspects of earth’s weather. If paying attention to the subtle cues in each episode, they seemingly have eliminated catastrophic events like tornadoes, while still leaving a typical summer thunderstorm on the planet’s precipitation menu. San Francisco, home of star fleet, is never shown to be cloudy, foggy, or mildly cool. It’s a level of specificity and control in these global temperature obsessed times i tend to crave, almost more so than the food replicators and transporter machines. I kid, of course, food replicators trump all. 

(continue reading…)

Eli Kintisch over at Science reports,  the Pentagon does:

An official advisory group to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is convening an unclassified meeting next week to discuss geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. DARPA is the latest in a number of official science funding agencies or top scientific societies that are exploring the controversial idea. But one leading advocate of the work opposes the military developing geoengineering techniques.

The involvement of the Pentagon’s arm for looking at this issue should bring concern for everyone, either for signs of how serious the issue is, or how badly geoengineering can go wrong.  DARPA is credited with starting and developing the internet.

(continue reading…)