Joseph P Farrell – Mr. V.T. spotted this one, and I simply have to pass it along, because needless to say, it occasions some high octane speculation.

For it’s all about engineering the weather, you see, and that’s a topic that has been and off-and-on subject of blogging and discussion here, both in vidchats and in the Dialogues with Daniel DiGriz, where one or the other of us occasionally brings it up.

The subject intrigues me, because with the recent invention of “weather derivatives” added to the arsenal of financial schemes and scams of Mr. Globaloney, controlling the weather on which those derivatives are based would seem a surefire bet for some unique new twists on insider trading, especially since most people don’t believe that humanity is capable of controlling the weather. Continue reading →