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Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow
dinoyum writes "Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov's promise of a winter without snow in the capital city has fallen short. While cloud seeding is not a new concept for Russia, often used on major holidays, geoengineering snow has never been done to that magnitude. Carrying off the $6 million procedure required jets to spray silver iodide into coming clouds, ensuring that all precipitation fell before it reached the capital. However a combination of disrupted radar, wind control, and faulty weathermen have been blamed by Luzhkov for his failed attempt at playing with mother nature. For now, Russia can go back to enjoying snow."
I didn't think they came in any other variety.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
seems weird they would be messing with cold weather precipitation cycles while the rest of the world is up in arms about the effects of global warming...
Groan. And time for... yet another idiot confusing weather and climate.
Really? A lot of people hate snow and would presumably be more than willing to go without. Myself included. Unfortunately, living in a tiny town just west of a larger city, if this were to ever happen I'd probably be a little unhappy.
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Do you understand the concept of varying levels of concentration?
And west of Moscow they get 12' of snow but east of Moscow they have a severe drought. There's no such thing as ideal weather for everyone even if it had worked. They talk about the butterfly effect, well this is the equivalent of dropping a nuke. Modifying weather there could reduce snow fall in the mountains leading to dry rivers in India or western China. There's simply no way to isolate weather and large scale engineering in Russia could affect weather worldwide. already it's hard to predict weather more than a couple of days ahead so it's impossible to judge regional and long term effects.
Why introduce it at any concentration if it's bad for you?
Can we please stop with the constant flow of unreasoning right-wing hatred of the French on slashdot? We get it, surrender monkeys. You don't have to throw it in to totally unrelated discussions about other European nations. Kthx.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
What's right-wing about dissing the French? English-speaking nations have been doing it since AT LEAST 1066.
That's what's right-wing about it: it's old and safe. I would give an example of left-wing dissing, but I can't think of any groups that haven't been dissed.
Alpha-Centurians, maybe? Naah, Douglas Adams already did it.
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And to think their refusal to validate the UN resolution against Iraq because of doubts about the intelligence (which was the direct cause for all the vitriol against the French in the past few years like the "Freedom Fries") turned out to be *completely justified*. Who's the funny guy now?