Cloud Seeding

Cloud Seeding

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Global Vaccine Inequality, Endangered Rivers, Cloud Seeding

Episode: Global Vaccine Inequality, Endangered Rivers, Cloud Seeding

  • Apr 13, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:39 mins

Scientists in eight US states are actively manipulating the weather: they’re trying to get it to rain or snow by shooting silver iodide up into the clouds. It’s called cloud seeding and could help fight the effects of climate change. Jeffrey French, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Wyoming, studies cloud seeding.