I received a copy of this book in 1997 and went into a completely objective tantrum when I read the chapters on weather modification/cloud seeding. Here’s my unedited 1997 letter to one the authors, with, as usual, candid material and why I was upset. And, why wasn’t I asked to review this portion of their book? I coulda improved it. Still, I highly recommend this book overall. It is likely that the first author is responsible for the cloud seeding portion of this book.
1997 2-16-18 Cotton, to, critique of his book with Pielke_emotions in cloud seeding_ocr
The comments embedded in this article in red font is NOT a hindsight view, but comments that were appropriate at the time this book was submitted/published with the relevant and available missing citations listed.
Sincerely,
Art
PS: This has been made more difficult since in the intervening 30 odd years, I have become social friends with the two authors. What to do? Nothing, or go forward?
PPS: It will be interesting to see if CP95 carried out my admonishments in CP2007, the second edition of Human Impacts on Climate and Weather. Standby.
