Tuesday, June 17, 2008










ABC News
Apocalypse Now: Floods, Tornadoes, Locusts
ABC News - Jun 13, 2008
And then comes the Apocalypse, the final judgment of man and destruction of the world by fire. Biblical imagery is all over the news these days — even ...

Four Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
OneNewsNow, MS - Jun 12, 2008
... Indiana, that there are four "modern horsemen of the apocalypse" that are "riding forth to wreak havoc and destruction in our society. ...

Russia To Launch Its First Weather Satellite
Space Daily, CA - Jun 12, 2008
by Staff Writers Russia is set to launch its first weather satellite, Meteor-M1, in the fourth quarter of 2008, the satellite's manufacturer said on ...

Cloud-Seeding in LA
The Plank on TNR.com, DC - 20 hours ago
Los Angeles has a new idea for how to combat drought: cloud-seeding. The county plans to spend $800000 on a plan to increase rainfall in the San Gabriel ...
Los Angeles to fight drought with 'cloud-seeding'
guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours ago
Los Angeles engaged in cloud-seeding from the 1950s to the 1990s, when the practice was suspended because of concerns that it could trigger landslides. ...
LA County to play rainmaker via cloud seeding
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Jun 16, 2008
Los Angeles County is relaunching a controversial program, cloud seeding, that officials expect will increase precipitation and raise water levels at local ...
LA to resume controversial cloud-seeding project
People's Daily Online, China - 17 hours ago
"They've been doing cloud seeding for decades, but we've never clearly been able to show if it's what we've done or what nature has provided," Gleick was ...

New Zealand Herald
Cloud seeding: Can humans really make it rain?
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Jun 10, 2008
Cloud seeding is basically a form of weather modification, using chemicals that are dropped into clouds (by plane) or blasted into them (by rockets). ...
Beating the drought by seeding clouds, beating the Celtics with ...
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jun 10, 2008
County approves funds to seed clouds in a bid to make it rain. Star-News Oscar De La Hoya drops out of the Sears deal in Boyle Heights -- again. ...

LAist
LA Officials to Force Rain with Cloud Seeding
LAist, CA - 23 hours ago
It's called cloud seeding: Cloud seeding is the process of spreading either dry ice (or more commonly, silver iodide aerosols) into the upper part of clouds ...


Weather Modders Aim to End Droughts With Efficiency by Sky
Popular Mechanics, NY - Jun 13, 2008
a A 2003 National Academy of Sciences report concludes: "There is ample evidence that seedingcloud with a chemical agent can modify the cloud's development ...




Weather warfare
The Ecologist, UK - May 22, 2008
Weather manipulation is the pre-emptive weapon par excellence. It can be directed against enemy countries or ‘friendly nations’ without their knowledge, ...

Government trying to control the weather
Ottumwa Courier, IA - Jun 10, 2008
During the 1950s, US and USSR scientists banded together to undertake the historic project of international weather modification/manipulation, ...

Saudi Arabia Start Artificial Rain Experiment, Gulf News Says
Bloomberg - Jun 1, 2008
By Matthew Brown June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia has begun experiments to create artificial rain using cloud seeding technology, Gulf News reported, ...


Hacking Earth Against Warming, Scientists Favor Fake Volcanoes
Popular Mechanics, NY - Jun 5, 2008
As the Senate debates a controversial climate-change bill, meteorologists and economists alike say geoengineering solutions aren’t so far-out anymore. ...







G4 TV
Can Man Conquer the Weather?
G4 TV, CA - 22 hours ago
One of their biggest and most ongoing projects is a cloud-seeding effort in the mountainous regions of Utah, where higher snowfall numbers can mean millions ...

Discover Magazine
Harnessing the Weather
Discover Magazine, NY - Jun 6, 2008
In reality, cloud seeding is pretty low tech: A tank of silver iodide is topped by a burner and surrounded by a perforated-metal wind arrester. ...

A New Debate Over Steering Hurricanes
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Jun 13, 2008
The project also tried "seeding clouds," particularly with silver oxide crystals, to super-cool the clouds and, hopefully, weaken hurricanes. ...


Geoengineering Could Slow Down The Global Water Cycle
Science Daily (press release) - May 27, 2008
Decreasing surface temperatures through "geoengineering" also could mean less rainfall. The reduction in sunlight can be accomplished by geoengineering ...



Technology Institutions and Climate
American Enterprise Institute, DC - 3 hours ago
A family of technologies referred to as "geoengineering" may offer the bridge for safely crossing the coming decades. The idea behind geoengineering is ...

How Do We Intelligently Discuss Politicized Geoengineering?
WorldChanging - Jun 7, 2008
Ever since I wrote about my support for a ban on geoengineering research, I've found myself more involved in a debate about geoengineering, climate science ...

Climate profs 'can't recommend' enormo-space-parasol
Register, UK - May 23, 2008
Still, the Bristol climate scientists thought it was a bad idea: Other problems, however, remain unsolved by this form of geoengineering. ...

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