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Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope

  • Written by William R. Cotton, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, Colorado State University
imageCloud seeding equipment near Winter Park in Colorado.Denver Water

On mountain peaks scattered across Colorado, machines are set up to fire chemicals into the clouds in attempts to generate snow. The process is called cloud seeding, and as global temperatures rise, more countries and drought-troubled states are using it in sometimes desperate...

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