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Post by -=[Tork]=- on Jul 8, 2007 4:15:02 GMT -5
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Post by Markus on Jul 8, 2007 8:25:59 GMT -5
Nini is fucking hawt yo...
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Ruuk
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Post by Ruuk on Jul 8, 2007 14:22:32 GMT -5
I caught a discussion over a talk radio station out of Minneapolis recently where they chatted about China's plan to induce the weather to rain a lot over the week heading into the Olympics. The idea is the rainfall will thin out their bad air pollution around Beijing for the opening events. Anyone else read or hear of more details concerning this?
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Post by Markus on Jul 8, 2007 15:31:33 GMT -5
I caught a discussion over a talk radio station out of Minneapolis recently where they chatted about China's plan to induce the weather to rain a lot over the week heading into the Olympics. The idea is the rainfall will thin out their bad air pollution around Beijing for the opening events. Anyone else read or hear of more details concerning this? Wow is that even possible? I think see angels and hear horns... When we start to fuck with the weather is when I start to worry ><
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Post by -=[Tork]=- on Jul 8, 2007 15:36:52 GMT -5
yeah its called cloud seeding
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Milara
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Post by Milara on Jul 8, 2007 17:31:08 GMT -5
I caught a discussion over a talk radio station out of Minneapolis recently where they chatted about China's plan to induce the weather to rain a lot over the week heading into the Olympics. The idea is the rainfall will thin out their bad air pollution around Beijing for the opening events. Anyone else read or hear of more details concerning this? Wow is that even possible? I think see angels and hear horns... When we start to fuck with the weather is when I start to worry >< Yeah if I remember right it's silver nitrate, the same stuff they use for photo processing. If you take a plane up and sprinkle silver nitrate dust into the clouds, it'll rain. They do the same thing if there's a drought and crops are starting to die from lack of water.
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Post by jaxx on Jul 9, 2007 14:52:20 GMT -5
Then why doesnt the US do that for their farmers?
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Post by -=[Tork]=- on Jul 9, 2007 18:30:20 GMT -5
"While cloud seeding has shown to be effective in altering cloud structure and size, and converting cloud water to ice particles, it is more controversial whether cloud seeding increases the amount of precipitation at the ground. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to discern how much precipitation would have occurred had the cloud not been "seeded." In other words, it is hard to discern additional precipitation from seeding from the natural precipitation variability, which is frequently much greater in magnitude. Nevertheless, there is more credible scientific evidence for the effectiveness of winter cloud seeding over mountains (to produce snow) than there is for seeding warm-season cumuliform (convective) clouds."
"This statement is supported by the professional societies Weather Modification Association, World Meteorological Organization, and American Meteorological Society (AMS). The AMS further states that there is statistical evidence for seasonal precipitation increases of about 10% with winter seeding"
"In the United States, cloud seeding is used to increase precipitation in areas experiencing drought, to reduce the size of hailstones that form in thunderstorms, and to reduce the amount of fog in and around airports. Cloud seeding is also occasionally used by major ski resorts to induce snowfall. Eleven western states and one Canadian province (Alberta) have ongoing weather modification operational programs. In January 2006, an $8.8 million cloud seeding project began in Wyoming to examine the effects of cloud seeding on snowfall over Wyoming's Medicine Bow, Sierra Madre, and Wind River mountain ranges."
They are conducting serious research to determine if this is actualy worth it or not but countries still do it anyway
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