How Humans Manipulate the Planet For The Sake of a Good Game
Qatar's Artificial Clouds Qatar UniversityEngineering the Earth's resources with remote-controlled clouds, artificially induced snow, and trained monkeys -- for sports' sake It only takes one rained-out Little League game to make a sports lover resent Mother Nature. Now some of today's scientists and other bigwigs have taken it upon themselves to say: "no more." Not content to stand idly by and let something as mundane as climate dictate the success of our sports games, they have instead turned to geoengineering - intentional manipulation of the Earth's environment - to fight back. Qatari engineers recently announced a project to develop solar-powered artificial clouds to shade the 2022 World Cup from the country's unforgiving summer sun. One remotely steerable cloud comes with a hefty price tag - $500,000 - just to cool the field by 10 degrees. This isn't the first time humans have battled weather for the sake of a sporting event....