Weather-modification by Carbon Dust Absorption of Solar Energy

The five papers of this report have been written in an attempt to open up a new dialogue among meteorologists and other scientists on the possibility of meso-scale weather modification through carbon dust interception of solar energy. Growing population pressures and predicted future global food shortages dictate that man explore all his possibili-ties for beneficial weather modification. Nearly all the weather mo-dification efforts over the last quarter century have been aimed at pro-ducing changes on the cloud scale through exploitation of the saturated vapor pressure difference between ice and water. This is not to be criticized, but it is time we also consider the feasibility of weather modification on other time-space scales and with other physical hypo-theses. The authors wish to share their ideas on this new area of po-tential weather modification with other interested individuals and obtain their comments and criticisms. They are hopeful that more exploratory research on this subject can soon be started