The Chinese and Russian governments have decided, with considerable chutzpah, to fall victim to harsh, snowy winters no longer. They're not just figuring out new ways of removing the snow once it falls--they want to control the precipitation before it starts. In Beijing and Moscow, that means turning to cloud seeding, a technique in which planes spray clouds with various substances (silver iodide in China, a mix of cement powder, dry ice, and silver iodide in Russia) to cause water vapor to crystallize at different temperatures than it normally would.
The effectiveness of cloud seeding is slightly dubious--some experts cite a change in precipitation of only 20% at most--but it's promising enough that the Chinese and Russian governments would attempt to use it in completely opposite ways. In Russia, the government seeks to limit precipitation: former Mayor Yury Luzhkov attempted to spray clouds in order to eliminate snow within his city's limits. But in Beijing, a city suffering from a decade-long drought, cloud seeding was intended to spur precipitation, rather than prevent it--though Beijing residents don't seem to thrilled at the prospect of crazy amounts of artificially induced snow.
LOL!! poops snow bricks...
To be fair for Seattle, they almost never get snow. When they do, its usually less then 1" and doesn't stay long.
cloud seeding *might* be bad for the environment.
Unnecessarily Powerful Snowblowers
Your text states "It features a 2,000-horsepower engine and can clear 10,000 pounds of snow per hour--an industrial-sized snow removal monster." A good household snow blower can remove 10,000 pounds per hour. OOPS These can actually remove 10,000 - 12,000 tons per hour.
Never ever EVER make a link to "Six Quiet Climate Villains" again.
EVER
the bricks Yukitaro makes would be good for making forts.
that sugar beet thing is a great idea.
Using the word "raping" in any LIGHT manner (as stated in the last picture here "lung-raping") is BULL!!! Have some freaking tact you heartless jerk that wrote that!!!
"Sometimes, good intentions just aren't enough. You need explosives or dangerous chemicals."
Then, you write:
"Global Warming: We're All Helping!" (With something totally unrelated to the article underneath, by the way.)
That's the reason I'm no longer a subscriber, thanks.
You know what? How about you be one way or the other next time? If you're going to write about what's necessary, what's the point of blithely insulting people while you're at it? If 'dangerous chemicals and explosives' really are the way to go (as most of us realize), then why do you immediately go and decry it?
Why does a science magazine frequently refer to the anti-science of man-made climate change? Michael Crichton, a scientist, had a brilliant view on this subject. Look up his speech on "environmentalism as a religion."
Is it not truely interesting that the snow line during this winter exactly matches that of the Little Ice Age! It is unfortunate Yuri Virovets does not know much "natural history." If he did, he would know during the Littel Ice Age the winters were cold, springs and falls wet and damp, and the summers hot and, often dry. Many of the empires of the Americas collapsed during periods of substained droughts before man made CO2 brought civilization to its' knees - fear mongering feels good and sells, yes!. Massive snow storms visited New England in the 1600, 1700 and 1800s. Also, what Yuri does not know or chooses to ignore is that global temperatuers dropped between 1.5 and 2.5 degrees and that were still not back to pre Little Ice Age temperatures, but let us not be bothered by details,let's just go with hysteria like those who pushed Lysenkoism!
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