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
Category: Israel
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”
CHAPTER 5: GOT PUBLISHED! (I.E., “RAIN FROM CLOUDS WITH TOPS WARMER THAN -10°C IN ISRAEL”)
I was so excited… My trip, and the analysis of the data that came out of it, was the first published report that something was not right with Prof. Gagin’s cloud reports. My publication appeared in the Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., Rangno 1988, “Rain from Clouds with Tops Warmer than -10°C in Israel,” hereafter,… Continue reading CHAPTER 5: GOT PUBLISHED! (I.E., “RAIN FROM CLOUDS WITH TOPS WARMER THAN -10°C IN ISRAEL”)
CHAPTER 4: THE TRIP TO ISRAEL TO SEE THE “RIPE FOR CLOUD SEEDING” CLOUDS
The trip to Israel My self-funded trip to Israel was one of 11 weeks, from January 4th through March 11th, 1986. I loved my time in Israel and would go back in a heartbeat any winter to see those beautiful Cumulus and Cumulonimbus clouds rolling in off the Mediterranean again! Following my return and for… Continue reading CHAPTER 4: THE TRIP TO ISRAEL TO SEE THE “RIPE FOR CLOUD SEEDING” CLOUDS
CHAPTER 3: THE REVIEW OF THE ISRAELI CLOUD SEEDING LITERATURE BEGINS
By the end of the 1970s, Prof. Gagin and his work had become of interest to me. After all, as I learned in Durango, nothing could be taken at face value in the cloud seeding literature unless I had personally validated that literature by scrutinizing every detail of the published claims in it, looking for… Continue reading CHAPTER 3: THE REVIEW OF THE ISRAELI CLOUD SEEDING LITERATURE BEGINS
Chapter 2: A JOB IN DURANGO, COLORADO, THAT EVENTUALLY LED ME TO ISRAEL
This story begins with my first full-time job after graduating from San Jose State College. I was hired as a weather forecaster by E. G. & G., Inc., in Durango, Colorado in support of a massive randomized cloud seeding experiment called the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project (CRBPP). It was intended to prove that seeding… Continue reading Chapter 2: A JOB IN DURANGO, COLORADO, THAT EVENTUALLY LED ME TO ISRAEL
JOANNE, ABE, AND ME: THE “LONG AND WINDING” STORYBOARD
(Joanne Malkus/Simpson and Abe Gagin) A modern-day story with elements similar to that of American physicist R. W. Wood and his exposé of non-existent “N-Ray” radiation in 1904. R. W. Wood went to France to expose “N-rays” as the product of experimenter delusion at the turn of the century (Broad and Wade 1982); our protagonist1… Continue reading JOANNE, ABE, AND ME: THE “LONG AND WINDING” STORYBOARD
The Rise and Fall of Cloud Seeding in Israel (updated in August 2023)
Once having proved to the world that cloud seeding works, Israel no longer seeds to add water to the Sea of Galilee, its primary source of fresh water. This is a scientific story that has taken almost 60 years to play out. Arthur L. Rangno, retiree, Research Scientist IV, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, University… Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Cloud Seeding in Israel (updated in August 2023)