We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day

Throughout most of human history, the weather has resisted humanity’s desire to change it . For thousands of years, we have sacrificed children, sung songs and danced, brewed alchemical concoctions, chanted prayers, fired cannons, and made many other futile efforts in the attempt to somehow change the weather a little more to our liking. And then, with the Industrial Revolution, all that changed. Humans modified the weather on a planet-wide, unpredictable scale. Climate change is an enormous accomplishment.