Col wrote:
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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A little bit closer to home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/6968221.stm

"A theme park has said it is looking at using rain-controlling techniques
to stop bad weather discouraging visitors.

"Staff at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, said they were considering using
the cloud-seeding technique ahead of important public holidays."

How is this supposed to work, does it just encourage the rain to
fall somewhere else?


Yes, it does.
Read about Chernobyl (-:


If so, and you were in this 'somewhere else' you might be rather
annoyed to get somebody else's rain!
Conversely, if you lived nearby to Alton Towers and were a
farmer who wanted rain you might also not be happy....

Of course it would take quite a bit of statistical analysis to
ascertain whether the seeding was actually having any effect.


It is a common enough practice around the world so I suspect there is more than
enough evidence to support it. I don't think anyone disputes that it works.


We already appear to be altering the weather unintentionally.
Let's not muck around any more by attempting to do it deliberately.


Too late - as I mentioned above, it is standard practice.


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Gianna

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