Men [and Women] are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

The future of climate control is an exciting topic. Theorists, engineers and other scholars have been brooding over this issue for an exceptionally long time. But studies on climate control have dealt with the aftermath of uncontrollable climate conditions that have mangle the environment and left people helpless and homeless.

While people are concerned with climate’s current circumstances, including all aspects of environmental care and protection, many of us think ahead and toward possible systems that can be employed to help us. Earth-based Biosphere 2 was one hands on example of adapting to the life-theatening problems of an encapsulated environment while, at the same time, working to sustain and protected from the outside world (one visionary within Biosphere was concerned about the possibility of having to wrap the entire earth in an encased structure). http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/apr/stories/bios2.html

On the horizon are far-out ideas concerning how to prevent life-threatening eruptions, storms, fires, and other major catastrophes. Emergent technologies such as molecular manufacturing are adding possibility to the growing list of ways to extract the detonating forces of catastrophic storms into energy fuels to be stored and deposited for later use. One day, many years from now, we may have to move the earth to a more suitable location, or create an encasement to protect the earth from solar flare-ups and perturbations of our solar system that await us in the future. But while we are here now, the question of controlling the climante infers owning it.

Who owns the weather? Could someone who has the means start collecting cloud formations and the wind’s velocity and package it? Today people do package water and sell it. What about packaging the environment’s weather? What would that type of climate control look like? http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_mystery_monday.html

Military strategists are not the first to think about controlling the weather. The fringe ideas for controlling climate date way back, and probably earlier by da Vinci, if not the medicine practitioners in the Pleistocene; but it was the 50s when futurists thought about unmanned satellites to allow forecasters to control the weather. To be able to “switch-on� daylight would be a marvel, especially if we could switch it on just above us without disturbing our neighbors.

But today, we are dealing with the earth’s weather and every day matters such as snow storms and tornadoes and actually controlling the weather is not the goal. No one wants to be controlled and the act of controlling lacks a certain finesse and grace. But what is a worthy goal is to harness the destructive characteristics of turbulent and life-threatening weather conditions and either reducing them to mild occurrences or perform a tai chi on them to turn them around into something quite marvelous and productive for humanity—like relocating this winter's Idaho blizzard into water for drip irrigation systems in arid environments, or taking the tornado that hit Alabama energize transportation vehicles, or packaging the mid-day Austin summer sun into enough energy-fueled particles to supply the energy requirements for Austin’s City Limits festival, and much more.