A popular science film produced by the Walt Disney Company in 1959, it tells about the sun and the effect of its activity on the earth's climate, as well as shows how people will control the weather in the future. The film tells about the occurrence of a powerful hurricane that threatens the coast of Florida, and the date of these events is September 14.
The film details how climate management technologies, including the creation of artificial clouds, storms and high pressure zones, will force this dangerous hurricane to turn away from densely populated areas and go out to sea.
The sun controls our weather, it is a gigantic atomic furnace that throws out giant clouds of glowing plasma from active zones (groups of spots). The sun is absolutely essential for life on earth. The Earth is surrounded by a protective shell that holds back the solar wind, but during solar flares, air currents in the Earth's atmosphere shift, mix, swirl in huge eddies, create areas of low pressure in the atmosphere, which generate destructive hurricanes.
Scientists must create an extensive network of weather stations, ships and aircraft with equipment and weather monitoring centers on the ground in order to be able to predict the formation of such hurricanes in advance. In addition, science must look into the past of the Earth, study climate changes that have occurred on our planet in the past, relying on the study of glaciers and archeology, in order to know when global climate changes have occurred in the past, in order to predict their recurrence in the present and future.
The Aurora - Aurora illuminating the Earth's sky can tell us what happens when energy from the Sun enters the Earth's atmosphere. Meteorological balloons and rockets launched from them will help to study the effect of solar energy flows on air flows in the atmosphere around our planet. In addition to these imperfect and short-lived weather balloons, we have more advanced satellites in Earth orbit and collecting all the necessary data continuously.
While the equipment on these satellites is imperfect, but in the future everything will be different. Let's imagine how satellites will be used in the future. Here is the World Weather Center. All changes on the planet are monitored here and the weather is monitored.
Deep in space, there are three perfect satellites controlling the weather on Earth. They promptly transmit data to the Hydrometeorological Center, where powerful computers process the information received and produce graphs that predict the occurrence of hurricanes for several months in advance.
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And these graphs showed that a very powerful hurricane is beginning to form in the Atlantic Ocean, which threatens the US coast. The strongest hurricane formed a thousand miles east of Miami, Florida. The operator of the weather center gives the command to enlarge the image on the computer monitor. The satellite aims its camera at the coordinates specified by the operator. The operator sees urgent action to be taken as the hurricane will hit the densely populated areas of the US coast in 48 hours.
An emergency warning is given, “960 miles east of Miami, Florida, a devastating hurricane has formed and will travel deep into Cape Hatteras in 48 hours - alarm!”
The Weather Center decides to divert the hurricane from the coast by creating several low pressure areas and an additional controlled tropical storm that will push the hurricane away from the coast and out to sea.
The satellite operator in space instructs the satellite to find suitable locations to create storms. The site has been selected and two storm systems will be created, one over Kansas and the other over Labrador.
With the push of a button, the battle against the hurricane begins. The installation on the ground begins to create a chemical cloud, and a special aircraft begins to spray special substances into the atmosphere, so two storm regions will be created. The chemical clouds worked and two storm systems formed over Kansas and Labrador.
At this time, a terrible hurricane is approaching, a hurricane wind, it carries huge waves with it. It's time to activate Additional Plan B - special rockets soar into the sky to a height of 42,000 feet, they explode above the clouds and release chemicals. These artificial clouds will block the evaporation of water from the bottom layer of natural clouds, which would affect the progress of the hurricane.
The Command Center reports that the creation of artificial clouds over Kansas has created a flood threat. An unmanned aircraft is urgently sent to the sky over Kansas, which must remove from the clouds previously sprayed chemical elements. The ground installations help him in this. This artificial storm system has already fulfilled its role and can be removed.
And at this time, a powerful hurricane is stubbornly advancing towards the US coast. A decision is made to enter into battle an orbital station. Its crew takes pictures of the hurricane's epicenter, its location, and sends it to the Weather Control Center. The Center thanks for the data received, now it becomes clear that the efforts made to create artificial storm systems have yielded a positive result, the hurricane began to turn, leaving along the coast to the sea, but the data show that after a decrease in power, the hurricane is gaining strength again - it is dangerous.
A decision is made for an additional salvo of rockets to create artificial clouds and a storm system before the impending hurricane, in order to force it to turn and reduce its power. Slowly, but the hurricane begins to turn away from the coast. Now all that remains is to wait and after several hours of anxious waiting it becomes clear that the Weather Center has won.
Along the coast of Florida, an artificially created high pressure area formed, which turned into a strong wall that did not miss the hurricane and forced it to turn towards the sea.
The storm has been defeated, this is how we will manage the weather in the future. We will turn the element into a source of energy production, where there was a desert, gardens will bloom, where eternal ice lay, a world of eternal cold reigned, the ice will melt, it will become warm and the former glaciers will turn into fertile lands.