The Why of the Storm

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Sun, Jan 11, 2009

I am fascinated by weather modification, such as cloud seeding, maybe because of the sci-fi elements and the issues of hubris it raises–that people can control the weather. This feature originally ran in the Rocky Mountain Chronicle and also got a mention on Climate Feedback, a climate-change discussion blog of the journal, Nature.

I won a third-place award for science reporting from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for this cover story.

Tags: climate change, Colorado State University, computer modeling, hurricanes, weather modification

One Response to “The Why of the Storm”

susanna says:

August 26, 2009 at 5:20 pm

If only weather modifaction could be planned around vacation days

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