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Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective

Posted by timothy on from the not-so-sure-about-the-dancing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 45-year Australian trial is the best evidence yet that cloud seeding — the practice of artificially inducing clouds to make rain — really works."

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  1. Re:Now if only California can use this... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspect that, if the effect is subtle enough to require a multi-year statistical analysis involving an entire hydro catchment, it'd be only modestly more effective than spitting for dealing with fire.

    Might be possible to keep the place a little moister, and thus less prone to fire(likely at the cost of stealing even more water from surrounding areas); but not much more than that.