Impacts of Artificial Climate Modification
Controlling the weather. The very idea of it sounds enthralling and, yet, terrifying. Take a moment and think about the endless possibilities. Imagine the scenario: Hurricane Katrina is headed straight for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The loss of life is unthinkable and the amount of damage is insurmountable. However, scientists have discovered a way to seed the hurricane, not only lessening its power but potentially redirecting its path. Hundreds of lives are saved and billions of dollars in damage are prevented. While extreme storm manipulation is a far reach into the future, the possibility to increase rain and snow fall and to suppress hail storms is a reality. However exciting the possibilities, there are still great concerns on how this awesome power will affect the world.
Weather Modification (WM) began in the mid 1940s with three scientists at the General Electric Laboratory. Vincent Schaefer, Bernard Vonnegut, and Irving Langmuir conducted various experiments in precipitation management. Their studies showed that the use of dry ice and silver iodide in supercooled stratus clouds acted as “seeds” for rain and snow making. Simply put, seeding is the introduction of crystalline particles into a cloud to create ice crystals and water droplets that will become precipitation (Bridget, 51). These first series of experiments encouraged new rain enhancement and hail prevention projects throughout the world (List, 51).
With the introduction of any new finding, there is a need for guidelines. In order to create a more universal, uniform, and organized method of researching weather modification, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) establish...
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Controlling the weather has always been only a superhero’s power in the movies, until now. Scientists now have the tools to create more or less snow and rain on command. This method, called cloud seeding, was initially discovered in 1946 by chemist Vincent Schaefer. His experiment involved encapsulating a cloud in dry ice, which allowed the water in the cloud to become ice crystals, although later researchers replaced the dry ice with silver iodide, a powder more commonly used in photography that deepens in hues in light exposure. Invoked with excitement, scientists believed this discovery the answer to preventing disastrous weather and providing water for all. Sadly, the money invested into this project decreased, but it is still used by companies
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...of several cloud seeding projects have indicated small percentage precipitation increases extending as far as 100 miles downwind of the intended areas of effect on projects that had indications of increases in the intended target area.” (Dennis,Brown,Long,Solak)
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