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    In The Electric Sky
    How to Make, or Suppress Rainfall


    The following is an excerpt from http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr04/0404nele.html
    in which Russian atmospheric scientists are selling and installing
    atmospheric ionizers in northern Mexico to relieve their parched
    farmlands.

    The article above but with an informational
    critique inserted which in my opinion balances and adds needed
    depth and a more complete understanding to the story. http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=9eq6g3aj

    …But some atmospheric scientists
    aren’t so sure the Russians aren’t selling snake oil. “[Ionization]
    is highly unconventional and in my realm of experience, I
    have seen no concrete evidence published in a refereed journal,
    nor have I seen sufficient credible eyewitness verification
    that the technology works as touted,” says George Bomar, the
    meteorologist charged by the Texas government with licensing
    the state’s weather modification projects.
    Comment: This is the common phenomenon of
    cognitive dissonance in science. The Russians are performing
    a weather experiment which should fail according to accepted
    theory. So the scientist complains that he has seen no concrete
    evidence published in a refereed journal. But the complaint
    reduces to a matter of belief. Scientists do not believe electrical
    power is input to weather systems. Referees who believe atmospheric
    electricity is an effect, rather than a cause of weather,
    would almost certainly find grounds for rejecting funding
    for, or publication of, such an experiment. The same applies
    to the publication of reports from credible eyewitnesses.
    For decades airline pilots witnessed strange lightning above
    storms but were discouraged from reporting it. The objection
    is unfair and unscientific. Advances come from challenging
    established beliefs.
    Ionization technology is called either IOLA (ionization of
    the local atmosphere) by Earthwise or ELAT (electrification
    of the atmosphere) by the company ELAT. IOLA and ELAT compete
    with conventional cloud seeding, which though it also remains
    scientifically unproven, is used in more than 24 countries
    and 10 U.S. states. Cloud seeding usually involves dispersing
    a chemical agent such as silver iodide into cloud formations,
    which helps ice crystals form, leading, it is thought, to
    bigger clouds and more precipitation than without seeding.
    The ionization approach, according to Bissiachi, now ELAT’s
    vice president of R&D and operations, does a similar job
    but twice over. Ions attract water in the atmosphere, creating
    the aerosol that produces clouds, and they also charge the
    dust already in the air, making particles become more attractive
    nuclei for water droplets, which coalesce and fall to the
    ground as rain.

    Comment: It seems that the basic problem
    in gaining acceptance for ionization technology is the facile
    description of what causes rain. And that is a problem inherited
    from the experts the meteorologists and atmospheric scientists.
    The water molecule
    is fascinating because, unlike the nitrogen and oxygen
    molecules in the air, it is electrically polarized.

    The oxygen (blue) side of the water molecule is more negative
    than the hydrogen side (red), forming an electric dipole.

    In an electric field, the water molecule will rotate to line
    up with the field. When it condenses in a cloud the average
    electric dipole moment of a water molecule in a raindrop is
    40 percent greater than that of a single water vapor molecule.
    This enhancement results from the large polarization caused
    by the electric field induced by surrounding water molecules.
    In the atmospheric electric field the water molecules will
    be aligned with their dipoles pointing vertically and in a
    sense that is determined by the charge polarization in the
    cloud. It is interesting to note that the tops of storm clouds
    are positively charged and the base is negative. That is the
    reverse of the radial charge polarization within the Earth
    itself. And it is this charge polarization that gives rise
    to the low-order attractive force we call gravity.
    So it is proposed that water droplets in clouds experience an
    antigravity effect. It appears to be related to the Biefield-Brown
    Effect, where a charged high-voltage planar capacitor tends
    to move in the direction of the positive electrode. That effect
    may explain how millions of tons of water can be suspended
    kilometers above the ground, when cloud droplets are about
    1,000 times denser than the surrounding air.

    Of course, this raises the issue of charge separation in clouds.
    The conventional isolated Earth view is that positive and
    negative charge is somehow separated by vertical winds in
    clouds and that this process in thunderstorms is responsible
    for charging up the ionosphere and causing the atmospheric
    electric field. But this begs the question of cause and effect.
    Recent high-altitude balloon flights find that charge is not
    built up in the cloud, it already exists in the ionosphere
    above. In January 2002 I argued the electric
    universe model:
    Thunderstorms are not electricity generators,
    they are passive elements in an interplanetary circuit, like
    a self-repairing leaky condenser. The energy stored in the
    cloud “condenser” is released as lightning when it short-circuits.
    The short-circuits can occur either within the cloud or across
    the external resistive paths to Earth or the ionosphere. The
    charge across the cloud “condenser” gives rise to violent
    vertical electrical winds within the cloud, not vice versa.
    This view accords with a recent report (17 November 2003)
    in Geophysical Review Letters by Joseph Dwyer of the Florida
    Institute of Technology, which says that according to conventional
    theory electrical fields in the atmosphere simply cannot grow
    large enough to trigger lightning. The conventional
    view of how lightning is produced is wrong.  And so the
    true origin of lightning remains a mystery.

    Water vapor in rising air cools and condenses to forms clouds.
    The conventional explanation for rising air relies upon solar
    heating. The electrical weather model has an additional galactic
    energy source (the same that powers the Sun) to drive the
    movement of air. It is the same energy source that drives
    ferocious high-level winds on the giant outer planets, where
    solar energy is extremely weak. Once the water vapor condenses
    into water droplets it is more plausible that millions of
    tons of water can remain suspended kilometers above the earth
    by electrical means, rather than by thermal updraughts. The
    clouds would act to reduce thermals…

    Please take the time to read the entire enlightening
    article.

    As ionization technology can be used to increase rainfall
    underneath these ion rainmakers; the opposite must also be
    true.  Holes in the clouds, where holes would not otherwise
    be, are direct evidence that scalar technology can deliver
    these negative ionic bursts into storms reducing their ability
    to make rain or even the ability of a cloud to provide shade
    on a hot summer afternoon.  These effects can lead to
    the decrease of severe storm intensity, changes of a hurricanes
    strength through wind field intensity disruption, and suppression
    of snow and rain formation in an extratropical storm, the
    kind most frequently found in the mid latitudes.  Through
    this page, and the several to follow, are pictures of these
    holes, holes of negative ion bursts used to thin cloud cover,
    rain out available moisture in the atmosphere.  I am
    sure many of you have seen those before and have wondered
    what causes these unusual shapes in the sky.

    Many of these images have been sent to me
    since I did the Art Bell show on January 30th; some pictures
    were sent with time and location, many others without.
    To those that took the time to take and then sent the pictures
    of weather events that caught their eye go my deepest gratitude.
    Keep on keeping on! Together we can win this war of bad science
    and silence.

    The Oregon Cascades off in the distance.  Note the rippling and all the holes in the fairly thin overcast.
    Symmetry very frequently accompanies this kind of weather modification.  Where one hole can be found a compliment
    (hole or bulge) will be near by.

    Looking at the same view but tilted a little higher in the sky.  Rippling remains present, as do the
    holes in the overcast, or what should have been overcast. Remnants of past contrail flights appear to have seeded the
    upper troposphere for the formation of the cirrus that is seen in the upper left hand of the image.  There is also
    some square edges to the cloud field upper center and to the upper right.

    A busy sky with the overhang of this house providing shade from the sunshine.  The rippling is generated
    from a couple of different energy deposit points as evidence of the variety of distances and directions that the rippling
    has travel.

    A large hole overhead at top center with another at right center where it appears that at least three different
    wave forms have been initiated.

    Several rippling frequencies displayed in this patch of clouds, with clear skies surrounding this activity.

    Early evening twilight when this image was taken so the clouds are blocking light from the background
    atmospheric sky glow.  Rippling is again present as is our hole in the center to the upper right hand portion of
    the image.

    A late summer morning sky after hours of contrail fights seeding the sky so high clouds readily form.
    A nice hole appears in the midst of this convoluted grouping of clouds.

    At least four, possibly six, separate rippling zones which all begin at faint holes in the cloud cover.
    These are points where sections of the atmosphere are nudged in directions and at velocities that would not occur naturally.

    Sometimes the rippling isn’t easy to spot, but the holes still are.  Cirrus clouds display a greater
    density on the edge of these holes; they also form at 90 degree angles to each other.  Note the clouds at the bottom
    of the image running horizontally and then vertically mid and upper center.

    A deck of altocumulus clouds with obvious striping/griddling organization.  Cloud density is much
    thicker on the right hand side as an obvious squared boundary in these summer 2004 Vancouver Island clouds.