Nature considers cloud-seeding: Chinese meteorologists will use weather-modification technologies to try to stop rain from spoiling the [Olympic] party. … Official figures … say that the country created 250 billion tonnes of rain between 1999 and 2006. … Critics say that many of these claims are laughable, and that most of the projects under way are based on little more than faith. … Today, countries from Australia to Iran practise some form of cloud-seeding – as do nearly a dozen US states. …
Chinese meteorologists will use weather-modification technologies to try to stop rain from spoiling the [Olympic] party
Actually, they're doing it more to wash pollution out of the air. Beijing's air pollution is twice as bad as LA on its worst days. One runner has refused to participate in the Beijing Olympics because he is asthmatic, and many others are foregoing the longer competitions, like the marathon.
There is something wrong with the mars paper -- figures seem to be missing.
Hmmm.... could incentive-caused biases be responsible for preventing us from taking very simple and easy steps to slow down global warming?
Chinese meteorologists will use weather-modification technologies to try to stop rain from spoiling the [Olympic] party
Actually, they're doing it more to wash pollution out of the air. Beijing's air pollution is twice as bad as LA on its worst days. One runner has refused to participate in the Beijing Olympics because he is asthmatic, and many others are foregoing the longer competitions, like the marathon.