While I was living in Britain in the late 1970s, the BBC announced a new evening radio programme to cover the Arts & Sciences in more depth. For a few weeks it looked promising, but the ratio or Arts to Science gradually tilted towards the Arts and the Science withered to a few occasional short items. I assumed that this was due to the Beeb being inhabited primarily by Arts people, who love to talk about their work, whereas the Science people were busy elsewhere doing their science. Here in Canada the CBC has an hour of science a week (Quirks & Quarks, Saturday mid-day & repeated one late evening), which is quite decent (at the interested lay people level). They cover three or four topics in some depth. But the CBC's Arts programming greatly exceeds it.

re "hurricanes are known to strike on a somewhat regular basis" if they were 'regular', we'd know when and where they would occur, and could more easily avoid their consequences. I suggest that 'frequent' is a better description of their occurrence patterns.

Many years ago, in a Usenet discussion, I was musing on this topic. I pointed out that even mankind's most powerful tools, e.g. a nuclear explosion, were puny compared to the energy in a hurricane. (Of course some twit chastised me for suggesting we drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes). I suggested that rather than trying to overpower a hurricane, we might find a way to turn its energy against itself, rather like in some of the martial arts, where a small opponent overcomes a much larger one. But nobody suggested how that might be achieved. A few years ago I heard of another approach, which is to cover the ocean with a thin film of (biodegradable) oil, which would greatly reduce the evaporation of water vapour (& energy) from the surface. The suggested way to achieve this was to soak straw bales with the oil and drop them from aircraft. I have not heard whether this has been tried yet.