Not a lot of dry ice might have a very significant effect if that is the case then we might expect a very significant effect from the scale of deployment of whatever ??? we now all see. What is it & Who supplies the gunk ? Then Follow the money .... Means Opportunity Motive Project Cirrus Project Cirrus was the first attempt for the United States Weather Bureau to modify a hurricane. On October 13, 1947 a B-17 bomber dropped 180 pounds of crushed dry ice in to the storm. The Boeing B-17 took off at MacDill Field in Florida on the 13th. When the B-17 reached the hurricane it climbed to 500 feet above the hurricane and dropped the dry ice. Before the dry ice was dropped, the hurricane was traveling northeast away from land. After the dry ice was dropped in to the hurricane, the hurricane turned and started heading west toward Savannah, Georgia. The hurricane made landfall on October 15th near Savannah. The hurricane did over $23 million in damage. The public was outraged and immediately blamed the seeding of dry ice with the hurricane changing its path. Many lawsuits were threatened and Project Cirrus was cancelled. On 13 Oct 1947, the U.S. Military (as part of Project Cirrus involving General Electric) dropped 80 kg of dry ice into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, safely off the eastern coast of the USA. (Havens, Jiusto, Vonnegut, 1978, pp. 41-42) The hurricane changed direction and traveled inland, where it did extensive damage to property in Georgia. The U.S. military classified the data from the seeding of this hurricane to frustrate litigation. (Ball 1949, pp. 225-226, p. 233) Attorneys for General Electric reviewed and censored Langmuirs scientific publications to avoid tort liability for damage by this hurricane. A biography of Langmuir says For the first time in Langmuirs long career [38 years] at GE, officials occasionally wanted to know in advance what he was going to say in his public reports. (Rosenfeld, p. 205) Langmuir (1953, p. 212 of Collected Works) believed that there was approximately a 99% probability that this hurricanes change of direction was the result of the cloud seeding. Langmuirs opinion about the effect of the cloud seeding on this hurricane is not mentioned in any of his publications in scientific journals, but is mentioned in the 1953 final report on Project Cirrus, which was classified by the U.S. Military. It is likely that attorneys for General Electric directed Langmuir not to make any public admission that cloud seeding caused the hurricane to change direction, in order to avoid litigation against General Electric by victims of the hurricane. Subsequent analysis of the data by meteorologists showed that this hurricane had already begun to change its direction when the seeding was done. (Mook, Hoover, and Hoover, 1957) A modern assessment is: ... it seems very unlikely that the 1947 seeding could have had much affect on the hurricane except for the seeded clouds. (Gentry, 1974, p. 506) source rbs2/w2.htm : confirmation dryicenetwork/science/modifying-hurricanes-with-dry-ice/
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:48:04 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015