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<br />OV. Richard Lamm says Colo- snow runoff into the Colorado That makes Lamm's and Getches' operates with just the right
<br />41t T, ratio would be; paying for`; its ,River, providing more water for Ari "concern seem like much ado about temperature, wind direction and
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<br />Ce�cnes, director of the Department t, :,The eight-year, ht- ear, E88 million pro-, � ,' - -- tiort is still extremely imprecise. '
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<br />i,� _.,of Natural Resources adds that the f ,gram. ' which Colorado is expected Lamm is right. The scheme is cra-
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<br />l iZ state• is being used as, a guinea pig, « „ , to help. pay for .- went over like the zy. If seeding is to be bought and paid
<br />,;•,x, Blizzard of,.'82. "That's icrazy," said the'p' would have i believe, what's: : for here, it requires a better example.'
<br />.',tudgit�g by; the comments at last ,r m. the point of spending il8$ million. of effectiveness than it's, to
<br />hursday's'• cabinet �� But accord'in to s the.. bureau, the That's a lot of green or 1 ercent „° dente: Perhaps a test over drought -
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<br />„�, might have thought the subject under a ,'program isn't going to collapse roofs 'there's. increase in the white stu t. , A>td .f .stricken Africa would give it the
<br />�.f ;discussion to be nuclear waste, or at, {;; in Durango or cause blizzards in Den no, assurance that the t Qch credibility it now lacks. Until then, as
<br />,east acid rain.' The topic was cloud �Fr� .vier., as Lamm fears. The program pique is yet polished to ho. putt we see it, the proposal is just another .
<br />►� seed�n i;;• Y wor?tld only increase the average an where the mount, instead f fantasy : California would do better to
<br />The two men's.' righteous wrath", Waal snowpack by 1 percent. _ war would be: the recipient of arty F -stick with reality; such as a water
<br />was aroused by the Bureau of Recla -'i10� .. "People give cloud seeding much extra;,snowfall., pipeline from north to south, within
<br />mation's plan to seed clouds over") ,more credit than its due, said a The history of weather modifrca. its awn borders. Voters rejected that
<br />,southwest Colorado's San Juan., bureau spokesman. "It will not make lion shows that control is nearly >m option. The seeding proposal should
<br />Mountains. The goal. is to increase "'a small storm into'a blizzard." 'Possible. Even if Mother Nature co- '1'' be laughed to death.
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