Between now and 2005, technological advances in meteorology and the demand for more precise weather information by global businesses will lead to the
successful identification and parameterization of the major variables that affect weather. By 2015, advances in computational capability, modeling
techniques, and atmospheric information tracking will produce a highly accurate and reliable weather prediction capability, validated against
real-world weather.
In the following decade, population densities put pressure on the worldwide availability and cost of food and usable water. Massive life and property
losses associated with natural weather disasters become increasingly unacceptable. These pressures prompt governments and/or other organizations who
are able to capitalize on the technological advances of the previous 20 years to pursue a highly accurate and reasonably precise weather-modification
capability. The increasing urgency to realize the benefits of this capability stimulates laws and treaties, and some unilateral actions, making the
risks required to validate and refine it acceptable.
By 2025, the world, or parts of it, are able to shape local weather patterns by influencing the factors that affect climate, precipitation, storms and
their effects, fog, and near space. These highly accurate and reasonably precise civil applications of weather-modification technology have obvious
military implications. This is particularly true for aerospace forces, for while weather may affect all mediums of operation, it operates in ours.
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