CLOUD SEEDING AND ITS EFFECTS IN THE ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE

Abstract

Clouding seeding has been a subject of debate among people of all cultures and all endeavors, but for scientists, this is not an issue of debate though the problem still remains on why the scientists cannot make or scientifically produce rainfall from the clouds during the dry season in all areas or even hold back falling of snow in most places, but only during the raining season they can make the rain to fall. Rainmakers from different cultures again sometimes are able to retain or disperse rainfall from clouds which are intending to fall as they claim. Some other times they claim that they are able to make the rain to fall either heavily or sparsely through their ritual processes which are mostly known to them. And these have been practiced from ages to ages as we can see or take a clue from scripture where some known prophets were able to shut down heaven and there was no rainfall for years. This write-up tried to investigate the effects and implications of cloud seeding or artificial rainfall in our environment. Having known that the rainfall from cloud seeding is not natural but forced rain this implies that the normal natural process was not followed by nature itself thereby disrupting the atmospheric and ecosystem structure. From the findings of the research carried out through observation and gathering of primary sources, it is known that the ecosystem is grossly abused continually and on daily basis especially the biosphere. Though there are some advantages in the cloud seeding but its disadvantages outweigh the gains of the cloud seeding.