Cloud Seeding as a Solution to Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis

• Delhi’s air quality is largely polluted due to emissions from vehicles, construction, power plants, waste burning, and agricultural fires.

• Cloud seeding, a proposed solution, is a textbook case of science misapplied and ethics ignored.

• The air quality in Delhi is particularly fouler in winter due to dry continental air masses dominating the region, which suppress the upward motion needed for clouds to form.

• Cloud seeding relies on natural clouds and provides only temporary relief at best.

• The evidence that seeding reliably increases rainfall remains weak and contested.

• The air pollution problem is not just confined to Delhi; it is a problem across North India.

• The temptation to engineer a shortcut to fix air pollution raises ethical questions about how science is used, what risks are justified, and who bears responsibility when things go wrong.

• The science behind cloud seeding involves dispersing compounds such as silver iodide or sodium chloride into clouds to trigger condensation.

• The long-term effects on agriculture, ecosystems, and human health remain poorly understood.

• The question of accountability is raised if cloud seeding coincides with intense rainfall leading to flooding, causing damage to infrastructure, crops, and livelihoods, or loss of life.

• Science has long identified the real cause of North India’s hazardous air as the lack of effective control over emissions from vehicles, industry, construction, power plants, waste burning, and seasonal agricultural fires.

• Instead of reinforcing these priorities, parts of the scientific ecosystem are lending credibility to a costly spectacle that will do little to address the sources of the crisis.

Cloud seeding solution is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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