LA County approves cloud seeding
When you put millions of people in a desert climate, the water supply becomes a pretty high priority among local leaders. As much as they may like to flaunt their environmental efforts, when the city is going through a drought -- all bets are off. Enter cloud seeding. Manipulating the weather might not be the more eco-friendly choice in the world, but that didn't stop LA County leaders from unanimously approving an $800,000 cloud seeding plan.Spraying silver iodide into clouds to try to make them yield more precipitation is a lot more common than you might expect. Apparently, LA has been doing it off and on since the 50's. With rainfall totals at record lows and increasing pressure being placed on the Colorado River, officials are not waiting for a miracle to save the day. The trouble with cloud seeding is: it's not an exact science and the environmental effects are not very well known. My spidey senses would argue that spraying tons of chemical antiseptics into the air does have a negative environmental impact -- it's just a matter of how acceptable is the impact.
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