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When Chen and her family returned to Phuket, they thought the destruction they saw had been caused by a storm...
...idea what was going on. Someone said there was a storm but there was clear blue sky everywhere,” she said...
...four days, not four months." Julia says he's happy to answer questions, but is also demanding a parliamentary inquiry so he can go public with what he says is proof his initiative had official backing. "If Julia were smart, he'd shut up and play along until the storm calms down," says the ump official. "He won't take anyone down but himself this...
...chaotic system like weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...
...laboratory, the hypothesis holds true. By introducing small changes to wind speeds and temperature in a computer simulation, Hoffman nudged the course of Hurricane Iniki, which leveled swaths of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1992. Shifts of up to 5 m.p.h. in wind speeds sent the eye of the storm on a track veering 60 miles to the west of the island, and 1??F fluctuations in temperature quelled its destructive winds. They sound easy enough, but in the real world those kinds of modifications "would require a huge amount of energy," says Hoffman, "not in the realm of what...