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Show UOFU SCIENTISTS SAY CLOUD SEEDING 'OF NO VALUE' The extensive cloud seeding program conducted throughout portions of Southern Utah since 1951 has been of no value, according ac-cording to a report presented by three University of Utah scientists today (Thursday) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Pasadena, Calif. Observed scientists J. Vern Haley, head of the department of meteorology; Thomas E. Mof-fer, Mof-fer, meteorology lecturer, and Eugene L. Peck, meteorology research assistant, in their 13-page 13-page report covering nearly three years of research, "A desperate des-perate need for water, plus a swashbuckling self-confidence, is not an adequate fomula 'for scientific progress." Continued on Back Pane HERE'S MORE ABOUT CLOUD SEED Continued from Page One The report stated: "The area average precipitation within the Southern Utah target region re-gion for the 23 seeded winter months (October through April) was not different than that which would have been expected expect-ed from the surrounding areas, bat-ed on the relations which were developed from 73 prov-ious prov-ious months in which no seeding seed-ing took place." In releasing the research data ! the three scientists explained, "We sine rely regret that the cloud seeding contractor in this project has made claims which we cannot substantiate, even though we have looked diligently. dili-gently. "We would much prefer to let these errors pass silently, but feel that we have an obli-! obli-! gat ion to the profession and to the public, particularly to the I people of Southern Utah who have paid for this evaluation. An honest discharge of our obligation ob-ligation demands that we call your attention to the fact that we cannot possibly agree with the extravagant claims made." In conducting their three-I three-I year study the University of Utah scientists studied an area including Beaver county. Summing up the report, the scientists concluded, "The fail-1 ure of the 23 winter months of i cloud seeding in Southern Utah j should not be interpreted as ' evidence of the complete failure fail-ure of all cloud seeding. I "Rather, we think that there i remains good reason to believe that carefully conducted exper-I exper-I imentation in the field ot cloud 1 physics and cloud seeding still holds a great deal of hope for 1 real progress and benefit to j the arid portions of the world. ', We are sure, however, that careless cloud seeding without ! adequate field controls or, associated as-sociated scientific interest I should not be encouraged." |