A New Decadal Climate Oscillation Detected in Past Data a Long Time Ago? A Fool’s Journey? Namias Reacts

Purpose of this post of ancient, unfinished work with the humorous title:  Could it inspire someone to continue it in a more sophisticated way than I have? Named climate/weather influencing  “oscillations” have become so numerous in the scientific literature (e.g., Atlantic Meridional Oscillation, Arctic Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Oscillation, Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, Madden-Julian… Continue reading A New Decadal Climate Oscillation Detected in Past Data a Long Time Ago? A Fool’s Journey? Namias Reacts

A Review of the Israeli Cloud Seeding Experience in the Context of the 2023 Israel 4 Null Primary Result

PROLOGUE I have written an extensive,  “comment” and “enhancement” of an article by Benjamini et al.  published in the in J. Appl. Meteor.  in January 2023.  The article was about the results of a fourth randomized Israeli cloud seeding experiment, Israel-4.   My “comments” and “enhancement” of Benjamini et al. (2023) posted below would never be… Continue reading A Review of the Israeli Cloud Seeding Experience in the Context of the 2023 Israel 4 Null Primary Result

Review of a published assessment of Israeli cloud seeding potential in support of the Israel-4 cloud seeding experiment

After pasting my incredibly LONG review of this article in this space, I realized it was too long for a blog, so will just put a link here where that strange person who would want to read it will find it.  I’m following in the paths of F. A. Gifford and Fred Sanders, of whom… Continue reading Review of a published assessment of Israeli cloud seeding potential in support of the Israel-4 cloud seeding experiment

Cloud Seeding and the Journal Barriers to Faulty Claims: Closing the Gaps

This manuscript had a close call in being accepted into the American Meteorological Society’s  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. in 1998-1999.  The key reviewer that I had to satisfy (according to journal Editor  I. Abrams)  insisted that I make it clear that the cloud seeding experimenters in Colorado  and Israel did the “best they could with… Continue reading Cloud Seeding and the Journal Barriers to Faulty Claims: Closing the Gaps

Review and Enhancement of “Literature Review and Scientific Synthesis on the Efficacy of Orographic Cloud Seeding”

PROLOGUE Dr. Reynolds, the sole author of this monumental review I critique  has done a masterful job of surveying an enormous amount of cloud seeding literature in his “draft” report to his former employer, the Bureau of Reclamation.  The BOR was  the primary sponsor of cloud seeding programs throughout the West in the 1960s to… Continue reading Review and Enhancement of “Literature Review and Scientific Synthesis on the Efficacy of Orographic Cloud Seeding”

A Review and Enhancement of Chapter 8 in the book, “Aerosol Pollution Impacts on Precipitation:  A Scientific Review” 

PROLOGUE Below is the impressive list of “Scientific Reviewers” of this volume before this belated review by yours truly happened, ones listed in the 2009 Springer book,  “Aerosol Pollution Impacts on Precipitation:  A Scientific Review.”  The authors of this book, including Chapter 8, had to review an enormous amount of literature which the reviewers also… Continue reading A Review and Enhancement of Chapter 8 in the book, “Aerosol Pollution Impacts on Precipitation:  A Scientific Review” 

Part I: The Making of a Cloud Seeding Activist

A Personal Sojourn through a Murky Scientific Field Filled with Confirmation Bias, Vested Interests and Skewed Literature by Art Rangno Retiree, Research Scientist IV, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle. Author Disclosure I have worked on both sides of the cloud seeding fence, in research and in commercial seeding… Continue reading Part I: The Making of a Cloud Seeding Activist

Part II: The Clouds of Israel and Why I Went to Investigate Them

The background for the trip to Israel: The British, among other groups, can’t get in to study the ripe-for-seeding clouds in Israel The British can’t get in: Sir John Mason’s letter Why I thought I could do something Story board concerning a trip to Israel to see their clouds About the clouds I was supposed… Continue reading Part II: The Clouds of Israel and Why I Went to Investigate Them

The Nightmare before Banff: A Science Coming Out Saga

The story of a coming out science “party” for a young, under-credentialed worker who has found that his greatest expertise is finding fault in the work of others.  But he now, for the first time, must defend his work overturning that of the leading scientists in his field  “at conference.” STORY BOARD Not a horror… Continue reading The Nightmare before Banff: A Science Coming Out Saga

Part 2: PETER HOBBS and me (contains irony)

“Peter V. Hobbs became one of the most vociferous scientists to show that some published claims of seeding impact were exaggerated, false, or unverifiable.” The above statement was contained in a flyer advertising the 2018 Peter Hobbs Endowed Lecture1 at the University of Washington by a leading scientist in weather modification.  This account focuses on… Continue reading Part 2: PETER HOBBS and me (contains irony)