Two planes take off and fly into the clouds. It’s January, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Boise, Idaho. The big question, though, is whether changing Earth’s weather is a good idea at all. There even is debate over whether programs should be developed to undo such changes with geoengineering. People also have begun to transform the weather in an unintentional way - through activities that have been altering Earth’s climate. We can now cause some clouds to dump extra moisture on demand. Weather modification, of a sort, has been possible since the 1940s. No one can tame a tornado with liquid nitrogen (although someone has obtained a patent for the concept). No one can deter a hurricane with gunfire (despite rumors to the contrary). And the new movie Geostorm has a modern take, with an array of weather-controlling satellites that keep the planet’s destructive forces in check. A witch named Jadis brings never-ending winter to the land of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The X-Men’s Storm, for instance, uses her control of the atmosphere to create tornadoes, blizzards, lightning and other phenomena. In fiction, people can alter the weather.

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