Venezuela Will Employ ‘Cloud Bombing’ To Relieve Drought

Reported by redOrbit on Monday, 16 November 2009 (on November 16, 2009)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will join Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to generate rain amid a severe drought that has caused much public anger over water and electricity rationing.Chavez said the Cubans had already arrived in Venezuela, and were planning to fly custom equipped aircraft above the Orinoco river."I'm going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me, I'll zap it so that it rains," Chavez said late Saturday during a ceremony with the families of five Cubans convicted of spying in the U.S.Many nations have so-called cloud seeding programs, which seek to alter weather patterns. Although the effectiveness of these practices is disputed, one common method involves firing silver iodine at clouds. China employs rockets loaded with the chemical to spur rainfall in arid regions.

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