§ 49. Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for Defence if, in view of the benefits which would be conferred on health, holidays, agriculture and sport, he will institute an inquiry into developments in weather control by means of spraying carbon dioxide on clouds and into the successful, though limited, experiments which have so far been made.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe Meteorological Office keeps in touch with experiments in seeding clouds with chemicals as a means of influencing the weather. So far experiments have proved inconclusive at home and abroad. As I made clear in my Answer on 2nd November to the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Whitaker), further progress requires a better understanding of the physics of cloud and rain, and the Meteorological Office has set up a new branch to expand research in cloud physics.—[Vol. 735, c.112–3.]