Is this the first attempt to patent human weather control? This inventor is seeking a patent for seawater spray geo-engineering. "He proposes installing 1,000 or more devices that spray water 20 to 200 feet into the air, depending on conditions, from barren stretches of the West African coast, bluffs on deserted Atlantic Ocean isles, deserts adjoining the African, South American and Mediterranean coasts and other arid or windy sites." Could the Sahara be a new green expanse? Or the ME deserts, could the Fertile Crescent be fertile again? It's feasible. Mass production of the floating energy machines from molded fiber concrete in shipyards everwhere, starting on the US west coast could maybe do it. There's a green job wave.    more »

Are the twin positive feedback effects of methane release and ice melt/solar absorption already making the climate tipping point inevitable? Add in corporatism that fights any manufacturing trend towards GHG mitigation with political corruption, and how could the tipping point not be inevitable? There's another feedback mechanism too. Firestorm related to drought. Geo-engineering may seem megamaniacal, but it maybe the only alternative now. Cloud creating wave/wind powered floating platforms that send a fine mist of seawater up into the astmosphere to increase cloud reflectivity and rain/snowfall seems to be possible and less drastic than other schemes.   more »