Name: 6 Minute English: Controlling the weather
Uploaded: 2022-11-12T02:04:20.000Z
Duration: 6 min 13 s
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And I’m Neil. Agh, it’s raining again, Sam!

drizzling, that’s raining lightly, all week…

could push a magic button and stop it raining.

dry countries need rain but don’t get it.

In this programme, we’ll be hearing about

‘cloud-seeding’ and ‘geo-engineering’, two

controversial methods scientists are using

I hate to disappoint you, Neil, but these ideas

We’ll learn the details soon but first I have a

gets nearly twelve metres of rain a year.

Is the wettest village on earth found in:

OK, Neil. We’ll find out if that’s the

The first type of weather manipulation we’ll hear

out of clouds known as ‘cloud seeding’.

before melting in spring to help water crops.

Professor Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric

Usually I respond and say, every time you

scientists from over fifty countries using

nature – trying to change something which

it’s not their responsibility to change.

‘Solar geo-engineering’ aims to reduce

called aerosols into the stratosphere - the

David Keith, for BBC World Service’s, The Inquiry:

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6 Minute English: Controlling the weather

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