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County Court
Judge T. C. Lea, Presiding
Cases from May 10 through May 27. Harrison Albert Gatewood
Man May Have
Control Over Weather
The day may be coming -- and coming soon — when man will have greater control over the weather. He already has achieved some control, although he doesn’t use it very often. The National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation recently urged a far greater expenditure of federal money for weather research.. They said this might, make it .possible. ” -- To modify or steer hurricanes away from populated regions. -- To suppress hurricanes before they develop.
To change course and violence of cyclones. -- To break up or prevent tornadoes. -- To abolish persistent regional smogs. Man already can control the weather to some extent. He can increase rainfall from certain kinds of clouds by at least 10 percent. He can suppress crop-damaging hail storms to a certain degree. And he can reduce the number and danger of lightning bolts in thunderstorms. Cloud seeding is the most common method of weather control in use today, according to World Book Encyclopedia.
“An airplane may drop dry ice, salt particles, water spray, or other substances into a cloud in order to ‘seed it," World Book explains, “or silver iodide seeds may be released from the ground and carried into the cloud by the wind.' “If the conditions are favorable, tiny droplets of water from the cloud collect around each ‘seed’ and fall to the earth as rain or snow.
“Cloud seeding methods have ialso been used to get rid of 'fog and to prevent fruit trees and other xrops from being damaged by wind and hail. By seeding the clouds before they reach an area with valuable crops, experts can sometimes reduce the strength of a storm and save crops from harm," the encyclopedia continues. Although the seeding process has been known for more than a decade, it is not often used. For Instance, no seeding was attempted during New York's critical water shortage last summer. Scientists hope to see greater use of the weather-control techniques we already have. They also hope that more money spent on research will lead to other and more effective ways of controllir weather. Mark Twain said, "Every body talks about the weathei but nobody does anything aboi
Modern science already is doing something about it -- and hopes to do more.
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