{"id":127735,"date":"2021-09-16T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/cold-war-nuke-tests-changed-rainfall"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:22:37","slug":"cold-war-nuke-tests-changed-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/cold-war-nuke-tests-changed-rainfall","title":{"rendered":"Cold War nuke tests changed rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cold-war-nuke-tests-changed-rainfall2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study, published in Physical Review Letters, used historic records between 1962\u201364 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.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Giles Harrison, lead author and Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Reading, said: By studying the radioactivity released from Cold War weapons tests, scientists at the time learnt about atmospheric circulation patterns. We have now reused this data to examine the effect on rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>The politically charged atmosphere of the Cold War led to a nuclear arms race and worldwide anxiety. Decades later, that global cloud has yielded a silver lining, in giving us a unique way to study how electric charge affects rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study, published in Physical Review Letters, used historic records between 1962\u201364 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. Professor Giles Harrison, lead author and Professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}