Robert Donovan wrote:
According to a recent Discovery Channel show, we tried something like this in the US and it looked very promising at first, but as the ability to measure the effect got better, it was found that a large majority of what was happening that was initially attributed to cloud seeding would have happened in the normal source of a storm. The hope is that as modeling gets better, they will be able to get better control and accuracy. It was also pointed out in the show that the very things you'd do to reduce the potential severity of a storm can sometimes backfire on you and make it more intense. So there is probably a chance that the Chinese will cause the very rain they're trying to prevent, but who knows?.
Actually, about the only thing we know causes rain is pollution. Specifically jets.
The grounding of air traffic after 9/11 apparently reduced the rain occurrences significantly.
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