Timothy Lawton

Cloud seeding disrupts the natural flow of the eco-system. It may benefit a particular area, but its detriments are a plethora. Artificially causing moisture to fall in one region inevitably causes less precipitation to fall in a locality in which it should have fallen. This causes changes that ripple through the global climate in which we have no ability to predict the outcomes of our actions. How can we justify altering the weather patterns when we have no potential to assess what the long term effects of our actions will be? Therefore it is imperative that we allow the weather to take its course and we simply respond to its results. Doing anything else is playing with nature in a manner in which we cannot anticipate the outcomes of our artificial manipulations.