Can you imagine the litigious results of attempting to steer or alter a hurricane by seeding it with ground up rubber tires?  What if the hurricane was "supposed" to hit Florida and instead hits Alabama due to it's "altering" by man's intervention?  Alabama attornies would have a field day for their clients suing for wrongful manipulation of mother nature.  If the storm grew in intensity, would the attornies claim that it was the seeding that caused the intensity?  How would you prove any of this?  Would lawyers for the defense claim that hurricane forecast are imperfect, that no one can accurately predict the path of the storm, nullifying the suit?  What a disaster this would be!

Maximus
Oct 22, 2007

This is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a long time.   If I understand correctly, the intent is to change the path of a hurricane by increasing the temperature of the surface water to one side or the other of the hurricane.  They intend to do this by covering the surface water with black rubber granules so as to absorb more SUNLIGHT.

Anyone else see a problem here?

There is no SUNLIGHT.  It's a freakin' hurricane.  A fifty mile radius of nothing but dense clouds.