Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers

formaggio writes "Last year a team of researchers at Switzerland's University of Geneva had come up with an interesting way of making it rain– by shooting lasers high up into the sky. At the time it seemed like science fiction, but now they are one step closer after the team successfully finished tests around Lake Geneva. From the article: 'Records from 133 hours of firings revealed that intense pulses of laser light created nitric acid particles in the air that behaved like atmospheric glue, binding water molecules together into droplets and preventing them from re-evaporating. Within seconds, these grew into stable drops a few thousandths of a millimeter in diameter: too small to fall as rain, but large enough to encourage the scientists to press on with the work.'"

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cosmic rays from the sun

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there is a theory that is backed up by research by scientists at CERN that cosmic rays from the sun help in promoting the formation of clouds, the scientists at CERN is not offering much press on this because of the climate-change/global-warming religion that is so firmly entrenched in mainstream media and liberally biased US colleges...