"Jim Carriere" wrote...

Basically a whole new base far away from the current population centers would
have to be made, and that still wouldn't address the weather.

Neither would it address the population!

When they were built, Oceana, Cecil, Miramar, Chase, Kingsville, Whiting, etc.
ad nauseum WERE "far away from the current population centers"! Don't you
realize that the mere existence of a military air base ATTRACTS population?!?
Not only do the military and their families arrive, but the civilian "support"
and the merchants that make their money from selling to all the above! Then the
developers arrive and turn former wasteland and current "buffer zones" into
"luxury condominiums"!

Hell, it isn't even restricted to MILITARY airports! Look just outside MIA,
where some fly-by-night outfit is trying to sell pre-construction condos
literally 300 feet under a major final approach course!

Where is "eminent domain" when you really need it?!?