A Dry Spell for Rainmakers
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Weather-modification specialists have been trying for 35 years to seed clouds to produce rain, achieving only one documented success. Now that researchers have overcome many earlier problems, writes Kerr, a Science staff writer, they face damaging federal budget cutbacks.
A General Electric scientist named Vincent Schaefer discovered accident in 1946 that a piece of dry ice placed in...