Chicken Little: The Sky is Not Falling… Yet!
What have we done to our world, to our children’s futures!? Is this the end? Is this how “the end” starts, exceptionally hot summers and inexplicably mild winters with a near total absence of precipitation? This is hardly news, except the Lebanese have had their heads up their ----- for so long, consumed as they are by their petty quarrels, that they have failed to notice: our weather is changing. Well, decidedly that, it has officially changed. Most of you out there are probably in denial just about now, trying to convince yourselves that this is just a fluke, a really long freak weather pattern that will resolve itself soon. Meanwhile, other Arab countries, among them Syria, have been doing something about it since the problem of water shortage in the Arab world began getting critical in the mid-1980s. Cloud seeding, while not universally accepted, is one option to increasing the amount of rainfall in the winter months. It’s certainly better than watching clouds drifting by or having