Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Drought-stricken Mexico is turning to a controversial technology to
make it rain
Cloud seeding is often employed in areas suffering from water scarcity
or drought, as well as in regions that depend on consistent rainfall for
agricultural purposes. It is a weather modification technique to enhance precipitation
in clouds and increase rainfall by releasing seeding agents like silver iodide
into clouds or firing them into the atmosphere. However, as it does NOT create
clouds, it doesn’t work in a place where there is no cloud.
Many parts of Mexico have suffered severe drought and heat waves this
year, damaging crops and killing people and livestock, and scientists predict
the situation doesn’t seem to get any better this summer. In July, the
desperate Mexican government launched a cloud seeding project to stimulate
rainfall artificially despite the controversy over the effectiveness of the
methodology and environmental impacts. As global warming accelerates, we seem
to need more proven, environmentally-friendly methods to create clouds.
Read the article and learn about drought-stricken Mexico’s attempt to bring
rain.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/02/americas/mexico-cloud-seeding-drought-rain-climate-intl/index.html
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