Rainfall patterns many thousands of miles away were altered by nuclear bomb tests.
I have read that Ernest Titterton, the English physicist, who master-minded nuclear activities in Australia, made sure to stop the radiation testing of rain along Australia’s East Coast, during the period of France’s nuclear testing in the Pacific. I have not been able to verify this, but I believe that it’s true – given what we know of this man’s loyalty to thnuclear industry, and disdain for the health and lives of nuclear victims.
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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Tests Changed Rainfall Thousands of Miles From Detonation Sites
Sci Tech Daily, By UNIVERSITY OF READING MAY 13, 2020 RADIOACTIVE PERIOD FOLLOWING NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS CHANGED RAINFALL PATTERNS THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM THE DETONATION SITES.
Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Reading have researched how the electric charge released by radiation from the test detonations, carried out predominantly by the US and Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, affected rainclouds at the time. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, used historic records between 1962-64 from a research station in Scotland. Scientists compared days with high and low radioactively-generated charge, finding that clouds were visibly thicker, and there was 24% more rain on average on the days with more radioactivity…… It has long been thought that electric charge modifies how water droplets in clouds collide and combine, potentially affecting the size of droplets and influencing rainfall, but this is difficult to observe in the atmosphere. By combining the bomb test data with weather records, the scientists were able to retrospectively investigate this. ……. Although detonations were carried out in remote parts of the world, such as the Nevada Desert in the US, and on Pacific and Arctic islands, radioactive pollution spread widely throughout the atmosphere. Radioactivity ionises the air, releasing electric charge……. Reference: “Precipitation modification by ionisation” by Harrison, G., Nicoll, K., Ambaum, M., Marlton, G., Aplin, K., Lockwood, M., 13 May 2020, Physical Review Letters. |
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