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Cloud Seeding - (Drought cure for the Midwest)
7/19/12 | Self

Posted on 07/19/2012 1:12:50 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight

Would it be possible to privately cloud seed in order to make it rain?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cloud; drought; midwest; seeding

1 posted on 07/19/2012 1:13:00 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

I’m not sure the conditions have been right for cloud seeding. We had our first real rain here in southern Michigan last night. We got nearly a half inch which is a start but we need a lot more.


2 posted on 07/19/2012 1:19:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

You need clouds to seed in the first place.

The Midwest drought is caused by a large-scale high-pressure weather pattern resulting in low atmospheric moisture and not that many clouds to begin with. Cloud-seeding can’t change that pattern.


3 posted on 07/19/2012 1:20:42 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Cloud seeding is snake oil. If you have clouds prime for seeding, chances are that it’s already raining.


4 posted on 07/19/2012 1:42:40 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Seeding is WHY we are having this drought. Obama and his Illuminati minions have been seeding clouds out over the ocean and robbing them of the rain they would otherwise be showering on the mid-west.

That's what I hear from the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge Society. (KOOKS)

5 posted on 07/19/2012 1:52:01 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Over and above the technical issues, what about liability insurance?


6 posted on 07/19/2012 2:09:23 PM PDT by I Shall Endure
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

http://www.license.state.tx.us/weather/summary.htm


7 posted on 07/19/2012 2:51:59 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Didn’t work in 1956, won’t work in 2012.


8 posted on 07/19/2012 3:19:47 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/13/at-new-naval-lab-scientists-make-it-rain-robots-pu/


9 posted on 07/19/2012 4:13:47 PM PDT by B4Ranch (There's Two Choices... Stand Up and Be Counted ... Or Line Up and Be Numbered .)
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