Cloud Seeding

Cloud Seeding

Cloud seeding is becoming big business in drought-stricken areas like the Rockies, despite dubious research. Cloud seeding as it’s practiced today works like this. Seeders, either tower-mounted or by airplane, shoot silver iodide into clouds. The particulates...
Winter Sports Need Snow!

Winter Sports Need Snow!

Winter sports are facing a widespread difficulty this year – there’s not enough winter weather. The Alpine World Cup began in Beaver Creek, Colorado last December, a ski resort at almost a mile and a half elevation in the Rocky Mountains. Ordinarily in December,...