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The Delhi government is mulling use of artificial rain through cloud seeding this month to combat the air pollution crisis in the national capital..
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai also held a meeting with scientists from IIT-Kanpur last week to discuss the proposal on artificial rains..
Rai was quoted by news agency ANI as saying that if certain parameters related to cloud conditions are met on November 20-21, then a pilot project related to artificial rains can be executed..
In the summary, he said, "...Risks or concerns like unwanted ecological changes, ozone depletion, continued ocean acidification, erratic changes in rainfall patterns, rapid warming if seeding were to be stopped abruptly, airplane effects, to name a few, may just not be bad enough to override the imperative to keep temperatures down...
The team recommended that a pilot cloud seeding initiative covering 300 square kilometres may be carried out immediately in the first phase, given the air pollution emergency prevailing in Delhi, officials told PTI. ..
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