Space Vanguard

Sean Morton has issued a severe weather warning for the Fall of 2015 going into Winter of 2016. He based his opinion on the extreme amount of heat built up in the Pacific Ocean that is being released into the atmosphere as a huge new El Nino cycle. Also on the Atlantic coast the thermal conveyor belt of warm ocean current that normally flows over to Europe has stopped near New York and may  dump the heat on the East coast and Midwest as torrential rain and blizzards. Therefore he is making detailed predictions that there will be massive flooding across the country, Manhattan will completely flood for a while, the Great Lakes will completely freeze over, and the rise in reservoir levels in Arizona will cause earthquakes there. Take the warning for what it is. Prepare some basic necessary items, practice spontaneous order, and work the problems.

Mars was probably hit by a Pluto-sized meteor in the northern hemisphere about 4 billion years ago. It really walloped the planet stripping off its atmosphere and knocking back the rapid spin of the inner core which ended the planetary dynamo generating the protective magnetic field (magnetosphere). If we want to try some creative geoengineering this is one of the first places we should look at. I am not a scientist and these are my current layperson opinions only. The northern hemisphere of Mars has the least severe weather. We might be able to place a few extreme experimental stations there by tunneling into the south side of small hills. If we strengthened the cave walls with reinforced concrete and put a strong framed three layer glass window wall on the south opening we could pump up the inside environment to maybe one-half atmosphere pressure (about 8 psi) and keep it at 60 degrees Fahrenheit so you could walk around inside without a space suit. When the carbon dioxide dry ice