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Many people called her dumb, but Greene did not back down.
She offered a video of Obama’s CIA director John Brennan to backup her argument.
Socanwe control the weather?
Could we stop a hurricane or alter its path?
Why is John Brennan not even talking about hurricanes or weather control in the clip Greene provided?
As meteorologistDon Schwenneker points out, it comes down to energy.
A single hurricane’s winds can generate1.5 x 1012 Watts of energy.
Don’t get me wrong: Anyone in power would love to harness hurricanes.
It’s been around since the 1940s and there’s still no consensus about whether it even works.
So maybe we can make it rain a little more; maybe we can’t.
But we can’t control hurricanes, as much as we’d like to.
Can we blow up hurricanes with nuclear bombs?
This is not a new idea.
While bombing the shit out of a hurricane would be satisfying, it wouldn’t work.
The heat energy of a hurricane is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.
A hurricane wouldlaughif you dropped a nuke on it, and then spread the radioactive fallout far and wide.
How else might we stop or control a hurricane?
Preventing or controlling hurricanes would save countless lives and billions, maybe trillions, of dollars.
We couldn’t spread enough oil to cover the area where the hurricanes were building.
We don’t have enough jets and jet fuel to reverse a hurricane.
Nothing will help because hurricanes are stronger than us.
We just need the humility to accept that you could’t win a fight with a giant storm.
What about John Brennan?
Green is wrong about John Brennan too.
He’s discussing the potential of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) to counter global warming.
SAI is basically spreading sulfates into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and counter global warming.
“It works when volcanos erupt, so why can’t we do it on purpose?”
proponents of SAI ask.
Turns out there are a lot of reasons.
SAI models have shown that the process could deplete the ozone layer.
We don’t know how it would affect ecosystems.
We don’t know how it would affect clouds.
It might cause acid rain.
It could affect crop yields.
It could havedisastrous consequences that we don’t foresee.
And on and on.
SAI is theoretical, so we just don’t know.
Anyway, it has nothing to do with hurricanes.
