Is this the first attempt to patent human weather control?

This inventor is seeking a patent for seawater spray geo-engineering. 

"Although it might sound preposterous, a computer model run by an internationally known global-warming scientist suggests Ace's giant humidifier might work.

Kenneth Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, roughly simulated Ace's idea in recent months on a model that is used extensively by top scientists to study warming.

The simulated evaporation of about one-half inch of additional water everywhere in the world produced immediate planetary cooling effects that were projected to reach nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 or 30 years, Caldeira said.

"In the computer simulation, evaporating water was almost as effective as directly transferring ... energy to space, which was surprising to me," he said.

Ace said the cooling effect would be several times greater if the model were refined to spray the same amount of seawater at strategic locations.

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. To maximize cloud formation, he'd avoid the humid tropics, where most water vapor quickly turns to rain."

Do I get some credit too?  Hehey.  The extra feedback caused by snowfall did not occur to this inventor.  He hasn't seen snowmaking machinery in action?  I have skiied through the man-made snow.

Snow can reflect sun, stop ice cap and glacial melt, and stop permafrost methane release.  By saving ice caps, frozen tunfra, and glacier it might even keep the seas cold enough to stop methane hydrate from escaping?

Glaciers supply water for most of the humans on the planet, especially the poorest most vulnerable.  Could this stop massive drought, migration, famine, disease, and death?

Rain can green deserts that will capture CO2 in trees and crops.  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.