WTF, I am Australian and a bit scared reading the below article.... Whats with planes flying and dropping chemicals into the clouds?
Can someone please explain Cloud Seeding or comment on this?
Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22062371-1702,00.html
Cloud-seeding could boost rainfall by 30pc
* By Roberta Mancuso
* July 12, 2007
THE Queensland Government will begin cloud seeding in the state's drought-stricken southeast by the end of the year, hoping to boost rainfall by up to 30 per cent.
Water Minister Craig Wallace today said the first aircraft would drop seeding material over the southeast's dams, including Somerset and Wivenhoe, from November.
The move is part of a $7.6 million four-year research project which will also investigate local weather systems and cloud microphysics.
“Some people may doubt that cloud-seeding works, but it's science fact, not science fiction,
Can someone please explain Cloud Seeding or comment on this?
Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22062371-1702,00.html
Cloud-seeding could boost rainfall by 30pc
* By Roberta Mancuso
* July 12, 2007
THE Queensland Government will begin cloud seeding in the state's drought-stricken southeast by the end of the year, hoping to boost rainfall by up to 30 per cent.
Water Minister Craig Wallace today said the first aircraft would drop seeding material over the southeast's dams, including Somerset and Wivenhoe, from November.
The move is part of a $7.6 million four-year research project which will also investigate local weather systems and cloud microphysics.
“Some people may doubt that cloud-seeding works, but it's science fact, not science fiction,