Does cloud seeding really work?

As temperatures rise, cloud seeding is bound to become a popular solution against droughts, floods, and fires. Do we really have the technology to make it rain? And if so, should we use it?

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Fixing the Sky, by James Fleming:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/fixing-t...

Precipitation formation from orographic cloud seeding, from Katja Friedrich: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/10/5190

Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut's Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes:
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-...

Special thanks to Jim Fleming and its great archive work for the book "Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control". Link: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/fixing-t...

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