In a sense, we already do — and the results have not been good. The billions of tons of emissions pumped out each year have caused the world to begin heating up, leading to predictions that overall temperatures will rise between 2 and 7 degrees Fahrenheit before the end of the century. Such increases will have potentially catastrophic consequences, from ever more severe hurricanes to droughts and torrential rain. Which all makes those '50s predictions of storm-fighting aircraft a little quaint.