Microsoft Word 221110 6min english controlling the weather docx

Neil 
Well, it rains a lot in Ireland doesn’t it, so I’ll say that’s where the wettest place 
on earth is. 
Sam 
OK, Neil. We’ll find out if that’s the correct answer later in the programme.
Neil 
The first type of weather manipulation we’ll hear about is a way of getting snow 
and rain out of clouds known as ‘cloud seeding’. Airplanes fly through the clouds 
and spray chemicals to make water particles freeze and stick together as 
snowflakes. These then fall as snow which builds up during winter before melting 
in spring to help water crops. 
Sam 
Listen as Charmaine Cozier, presenter of BBC World Service programme, The 
Inquiry, speaks with Professor Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the 
University of Colorado: 
Charmaine Cozier 
The first cloud seeding experiments took place in the 1940s. In the years since, 
scientists are often accused of 
meddling
with nature. 
Professor Katja Friedrich 
People are thinking, yeah, you’re putting some substances in the atmosphere 
that should not be there. Usually I respond and say, every time you get into your 
car, every time you get on an airplane you put substances in the air that don't 
belong, so you're also 
playing God. 
 
Neil 
Because everyone needs water, cloud seeding is becoming more and more 
popular, with scientists from over fifty countries using the method to extract rain 
from clouds. But some critics accuse these scientists of 
meddling
with nature – 
trying to change something which it’s not their responsibility to change.
Sam 
In other words, they’re accused of 
playing God
– acting as if they have unlimited 
power and can do whatever they want. 

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