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Folks have been seeding clouds to induce rain for over a century, but weather variability has made it hard to collect clear evidence that seeding increases rainfall. Because of this, many consider cloud-seeding to be a psuedo-science. But the latest Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology presents relatively strong support:
An analysis of cloud seeding activity for the period 1960–2005 over a hydroelectric catchment (target) area located in central Tasmania is presented. The analysis is performed using a double ratio on monthly area averaged rainfall for the months May–October. Results indicate that increases in monthly precipitation are observed within the target area relative to nearby controls during periods of cloud seeding activity. Ten independent tests were performed and all double ratios found are above unity with values that range from 5–14%. Nine out of ten confidence intervals are entirely above unity and overlap in the range of 6–11%. Nine tests obtain levels of significance greater than the 0.05 level. If the Bonferroni adjustment is made to account for multiple comparisons, six tests are found to be significant at the adjusted alpha level. Further field measurements of the cloud microphysics over this region are needed to provide a physical basis for these statistical results.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; sometimes it can just take a long time for clear evidence to accumulate.
Cloud Seeding Works
Cloud seeding is 1005 scientific.But its technology is based on the efficiency of its operators,topography,geographiy,meteorology,economic and political interests of the decision-makers of the given region.For instance,china works honestly to help its population whereas india works with a bias which is promoted on a large scale by high-profile ministers and officials and also scientists as they are sometimes highly ignorant and some times get huge kick-backs from the business lobby that eke out their livelihood based on the water scarcity conditions created to the detriment of the farmers and national economy and to benefit the vested interests.While the Meteorological scientists and experts are fully engaged in helping the villages and even the states to promote cloud seeding,indian government does not give a mandate to the Metweorological Department to promote cloud seeding in public interests.Even the Union ministers for Agriculture and science and technology refuse to visit countries like China,Israil,Australia or even Texas where cloud seeding is a great success to learn the basics of cloud seeding and thereby help the farmers to get more water for irrigation and the industrialists to produce inexpensive power as done in Tasmania.Scientists opposed cloud seeding in Australia ,it is said due to the limited funds under Scientific research and in the fight among scientists to cash as many funds for their research,thwey had to resort to deny funds for cloud seeding by branding it as unscientific.Officials and politicians in India get more kick backs from the tanker-water supply lobby and bribe the decision makers to put obstacles by asking them to condemn cloud seeding as unproven even without knowing what is meant by'Proven" and "unproven aspects" aspects of cloud seeding.For more details see the web sites:http://www.indiawaterportal...http://tshivajirao.blogspot...http://tshivajirao.blogspot...https://sites.google.com/si...
prof.T.Shivaji Rao,Director,centre for Environmental studies,Gitam University,visakhapatnam,india.
CLOUD SEEDING WORKS TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS---------------------------------------------------Chinese proved that cloud seeding works in the hands of patriotic experts who plan operations as per standard procedures being followed in 40 to 50 countries since 50 years.see the following web sites to get scientific proof that cloud seeding works:http://shivajirao.cloudseed...http://jcsepa.mri-jma.go.jp...http://tshivajirao.blogspot...http://gitam.edu/cos/env/En...prof.T.Shivaji Rao.B.E.,M.S.[Rice,Texas,1962]Ph.D[Hony]Director,centre for Environment,Gitam University,Visakhapatnam,India andExpert,cloud seeding project of Govt.,of A.P.state