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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Giant Magnet
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 00:44:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 00:44:43 1984
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Reply-To: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Summary: I don't think so.

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Personally, I find it hard to see how one could seriously change the weather
with a magnet.  I tend to avoid the weather-modification types around here,
but I see enough to know that none of them are experimenting with magnets.

The weather patterns we have seen are (at least in part) caused by (1) the
El Nino ocean current, and (2) normal cyclic weather changes.

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
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