Here’s an interesting article about cloud seeding efforts in China, where lack of rain and poor air quality have been big problems lately. Whenever the topic of weather modification comes up I get to mention one of my favorite bits of trivia: the atmospheric scientist who discovered silver iodide and its role in cloud seeding is Bernard Vonnegut, brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt later used some of the ideas in his novel Cat’s Cradle.
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WHY?! I can’t believe people really think this is a good idea. Nature is just that - nature. It (She) does what she wants, and we just have to deal with it. It’s (She’s) been doing her thing a lot longer than we have. Ugh, the idea of us screwing around with it really bothers me. Who knows, but to me the risk of setting off a whole chain of events that weren’t supposed to happen really frightens me. We do enough changing of the enviroment with our industry… so naturally we should try to change the weather directly. Grrr, no!