Mar162010
Deflecting snow by seeding clouds? Not easy
Filed under Weather climate by david brooks at 11:39 am
A post from the Freakonomics blog on the NY Times site (read it here) points out that the mayor of Moscow - a place that knows its winter weather - vowed to reduce snow in his city this year through cloud seeding. The result? Record snowfall.
Cloud seeding to alter precipitation isn’t a bogus idea, of course, as this Scientific American interview shows, but it’s far from a precise science.
