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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22744169
Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia has introduced legislation to prohibit “weather modification” activities in the state.
Prohibit “weather modification”.
So are they banning Sharpies?
Worse: Weather modification, though possible, just doesn’t really work. People gave up on that back in the day.
Cloud seeding certainly does work and is used in many places to promote rainfall or redirect hail or rainfall to protect crops.
Does it?
Last I heard, the effectiveness is rather disputed.
It certainly does work, until you look at numbers and they are either negligible, or great until they stop being great quickly.
https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/11/10/167 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207233.2024.2358707 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmsj/102/4/102_2024-021/_article/-char/ja/
I would not call that a consensus on “it does work”.