WEATHER CHANGES Scientists not heeded’
j (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) BRUSSELS, Feb. 7. | The world’s governments I were accused today of failing to heed scientists’ warnings of radical weather changes, such as long dry spells leading to droughts. I Professor William NierenIberg, director of the Scripps institute of Oceanography in | La Jolla, California, made the | accusation at a press conference held in the North ; Atlantic Treaty Organisation ! headquarters in Brussels. i He also said that while I scientists were almost positive that hurricane winds could j be drastically reduced by I dropping iodide crystals on! Ito one wall of the “eye” of; a storm, in 10 years govern-1 ments had allowed them tO| experiment on only two or| three hurricanes in the Gulf! of Mexico. “Governments fear that their citizens would blame !them for allowing scientists Ito experiment on a hurricane lif it caused loss of life or ; material damage,” Professor iNierenberg said.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 9
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