Modifying the weather

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Date
1990
Summary
By building roads, watering crops, and grazing cattle, we are constantly changing the climate. We may also modify the weather by cloud seeding, though there is no scientifically accepted proof that rain or snow would not have occurred naturally in cases where seeding appears to have been successful. This program shows how migration in the Sahel has altered regional climate; examines the tomorrow-be-damned policy of water usage in Arizona; and investigates the drastic miscarriage of good intentions in Central Asia, where efforts to irrigate the desert turned into the worst climatic disaster in the history of the Soviet Union: the drying up of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake. The program details how this catastrophe happened and reveals its consequences for the population, the physical geography, and the climate of the area.
Contributors
Jones, Ralph; Peck, Bob, 1945-1999
Publishers
Vision Group; London Weekend Television, ltd; Caméras continentales; Société française de production; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Genres
Science television programs; Educational television programs; Documentary television programs
Subjects
Science, Technology; Agriculture, Environment, Conservation, the Natural World; Science, Technology, and Math; Conservation, Environment; Climatology; Weather control; Weather -- Effect of human beings on
Locations
North America; United States
Collection
Films@UM
Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
Physical Description
25 minutes; color
Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
Creation/Production Credits
Made by the Vision Group in association with Cameras Continentales and Société Française de Production for London Weekend Television ; produced and directed by Ralph Jones. Narrator, Bob Peck. Executive producer, Jerome Kuehl ; series producer, Mark Redhead ; cameramen, Simon French, Alan Hewison ; editor, Cesca Eaton ; music, Steve Nieve.
Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089528; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10564; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3039; Catalog Key: alephsys004124948; OCLC: ocn707964554

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