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Posted Mon Dec 14 2009: from Associated Press:
Governments Turn to Cloud Seeding to Fight Drought http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1260812703
SACRAMENTO, California -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing droughts. This is a cloud-seeding machine designed to increase rainfall by spraying a chemical vapor into the clouds. Under the right conditions, it can help water droplets grow heavy, coalesce and fall to the ground. Faced with water shortages, growing populations and the threat that climate change could make matters worse, governments around the globe have increasingly turned to cloud seeding in an attempt to wring more rain and snow from the sky.
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'Doc Michael says:
We call this feat of geoengineering the trickle-down effect!
And surely, it will work just as well!

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