Eyes in Outer Space 1959 - Cloud Seeding Hurricanes by Walt Disney

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Video by Walt Disney Technical advise by Irving P. Krick, father of ground-based silver iodide generators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_P._Krick "After leaving Caltech, Krick continued offering commercial long-term weather forecasts. He also added the service of cloud seeding, forcing precipitation in drought-affected areas. In summer of 1948 Krick performed the first series of 27 airborne cloud seeding tests over central Arizona, dropping up to 300 pounds (140 kg) of ice particles on each flight. Indeed, the seeded clouds released rain, raising water levels in local reservoirs. The "rain makers" admitted that the result had other, natural, causes, but in a year that was one of the driest on record it was a significant success. Financially, the volume of water added by Krick's experiment cost only $2.50, compared to $14 going rate.[10] In December 1949 Krick suggested cloud seeding without resorting to airborne devices; his proposal employed ground-based smoke generators dispersing vaporized silver iodide. A single smoke dispenser set, asserted Krick, could be moved by two wheelbarrows; it theoretically provided cloud-seeding particles for an area of 240 square miles (620 km2). Tests demonstrated a fourfold increase in precipitation.[11] By 1951 his cloud-seeding business had 120 employees and had been hired to seed clouds over 330 million acres (1,300,000 km2) in the western United States as well as parts of Mexico and San Salvador.[12] However, the American meteorological establishment opposed his practice, asserting his methods of cloud seeding were bogus and the weather could not be forecast for more than five days in the future. Krick decided to offer his long term forecasting to the Weather Bureau, but they too did not believe in his methods, so he started a private business. He successfully proved his basic premises, making a substantial profit from forecasts and weather making. Krick's practice caught the eye of many famous figures, and he was hired to forecast the weather for presidential inaugurations and movie shoots. He garnered attention in 1957 when his prediction of sunny weather for President Eisenhower's second inauguration, made 17 days before the event, came true.[3] Of his most notable achievements, Dr. Krick also made rain in Israel after a severe drought, made it stop hailing in Alberta, Canada, and made enough snow for the 1960 Winter Olympics to take place. During the mid-sixties, Irving P. Krick & Associates operated a successful cloud seeding operation in the area around Calgary, Alberta. This utilized both aircraft and ground-based generators that pumped silver iodide into the atmosphere in an attempt to reduce the threat of hail damage. Ralph Langeman, Lynn Garrison, and Stan McLeod, all ex-members of the RCAF, attending the University of Alberta, spent their summers flying hail suppression. A number of surplus Harvard aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuzees that were impregnated with silver iodide. These could be ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulo-nimbus clouds with noticeable effect. Large, active CBs were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were reduced in intensity. This effective program was funded by farmer contributions and government grants. The program was run each summer and did much to reduce crop damage by hail, otherwise the farm community would not have continued to finance the project. In 1990 Krick sold his weather business to Strategic Weather Services, remaining with that company as chairman emeritus until his 1996 death from heart failure.[1]" See also: Mountain Skywater - Colorado River Basin Cloud Seeding Pilot Project - 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL9P87MQo8 Geoengineering and Weather Modification Exposed http://climateviewer.com/geoengineering/ ---[ CLIMATE VIEWER 3D ]--- App: http://climateviewer.com/3D/ Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nnuN4ZqfxI ---[ SUBSCRIBE ]--- Video by Jim Lee: http://climateviewer.com/rezn8d Please Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/R3zn8D ---[ SOCIAL ]--- Climate Viewer News: Website: http://climateviewer.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/climateviewer Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Climateviewers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climateviewer Twitter: https://twitter.com/climateviewer #cv3d ---[ JOIN US ]--- http://climateviewer.com/about/ ---[ SUPPORT US ]--- Fundrazr: http://fnd.us/c/4ulp2/sh/6wGk0 Paypal: http://bit.ly/11Hz3GX