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Subject: Re: Cloud Busting - Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:37:42 -0500
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:37:42 -0500
From: "Shawn P. Wilbur" <swilbur@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.07.9603081008.C29782-b100000@bgsuvax.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Cloud Busting
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Chris,
I'm not sure if we've heard from any cloudbusting "advocates," at least
since DeMeo left the list. I'm still at the stage of trying to understand
the operating assumptions of cloudbusting, in order to pose better
questions. Since we have been responding to the issue in terms of
causation and responsibility, it seems critical to remind ourselves that
*from within those operating assumptions* global weather has its own
tendencies which can be frustrated. I think this is an assumption shared
by both DeMeo and Carlinsky, based on what we've seen here and what i've
read offline - although they obviously draw different conclusions.
If we buy those assumptions, then we're faced with some distinctions - not
about greater or lesser causation - but between perhaps more or less
desirable (or "natural") sorts of interventions. DeMeo's point about
cloudbusting not being "weather modification" is the one on which
arguments are likely to rise or fall.
As for cloudbusting as a means of fighting global pollution, i hope i
didn't come off as advocating that. I'm more interested in the ways that
pollution messes with more-or-less "natural" weather patterns -
complicating further the problems of causation and responsibility, by
spreading them out over most of us. It could be that cloudbusting can
intervene "appropriately" in the climatic arena, minimizing the effects of
pollution and such.
"It could be..."
I'm far from convinced either of the efficacy of cloudbusting or about the
appropriateness of any particular method of intervening in weather
systems. I think we're all, inevitably, in over our heads on this one.
But, as i suggested last post, perhaps we still have to make some choices
in this high stakes game.
-shawn (who ordinarily "wrings" his hands, but does like the thought of
hands "ringing")
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