Weather Vain

Published: Jan. 1, 2018, 4:13 p.m.

ENCORE\xa0Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it. Not that they haven\u2019t tried.\xa0History is replete with attempts to control the weather, but we\u2019d settle for an accurate seven-day forecast.\nFind out how sophisticated technology might improve accuracy, including predicting the behavior of severe storms.\xa0Plus, the age when \u201cweather forecast\u201d was a laughable idea, but why 19th\xa0century rebel scientists pursued it anyway.\nAlso, a meteorologist who was falsely claimed to have \u201csolved\u201d the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, and a climate scientist recounts the history of trying to control the weather, and the potential future of geoengineering.\nGuests:\n\n\nCliff Mass\xa0\u2013\xa0Professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.\n\n\nPeter Moore\xa0\u2013 Author of \u201cThe Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future.\u201d\n\n\n Steven Miller\xa0\u2013 Meteorologist, Colorado State University Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.\n\n\nAlan Robock\xa0\u2013 Meteorologist and climatologist, Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, IPCC lead author.\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices