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Re: SF & the weather

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On 11/2/22 00:54, Charles Packer wrote:
> Is there any SF writing that posits that the earth's weather has
> been brought under complete human control? It would seem that
> something like that would be thought of sooner or later by minds
> pondering the future.

Not "complete control", but in
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
by Orson Scott Card

After a great failure and reduction of population,

"Though the weather stations high in orbit could not
change the climate they tweaked the winds often enough
that no spot on earth would suffer drought nor flood or
lack of sunlight."

Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green. -- Goethe

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