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  Alex Tomoff

  

  The man who wants to control the weather with lasers

  CNN

  CNN — Is there anything laser can’t do? From cutting diamonds to preserving endangered sites, all the way to building terrifying weapons and turning your eyes from brown to blue, there is apparently no end to the list of applications for laser. Swiss physicist Jean-Pierre Wolf is working on yet …

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  Alex Tomoff

  

  Humans Can Influence the Weather, But We Can't Control It (Yet)

  The Atlantic - By Shirley Li

  Cloud seeding won't solve winter woes, and it probably won't promise clear skies for wedding days, either. It hasn't been an enjoyable winter for much of the United States. Record snowfall has blanketed cities like Boston, while below-freezing temperatures and relentless wind chills have sent …

• http://ktimes.co/8a72j

  

  Alex Tomoff

  Apr 22, 2015

• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/03/09/cloud-seeding-wedding-weather/#.VTW_HYb3bCQ

  

  Alex Tomoff

  Apr 21, 2015
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  Alex Tomoff

  

  China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year—and it plans to quintuple that

  Quartz - Gwynn Guilford

  Back in 2150 BC, Emperor Yu sealed his place in China’s history of eminent rulers by controlling the Yellow River’s annual flood, saving waterlogged crops. Today China’s rulers face the opposite problem: It’s water scarcity that threatens farms. So instead of the Yellow River, the Chinese …

• http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-may-never-know-how-well-cloud-seeding-works/

  

  Alex Tomoff

  

  Solito Sumulong

  Dec 22, 2014