Mick..listen closely please. I'm a pretty smart woman. My daughter was valedictorian of her 2013 class (Athens, GA) and her siblings are following behind her. I think I'm doing a good job bringing up intelligent children. I saw the videos of "fake snow" coming across my facebook feed and actually laughed myself to sleep that night. The next day, I just had to go and get a snow ball and try the experiment myself. I used a soy candle not a lighter. The fact that I couldn't make the snowball produce one single drop of water (I have a video), the fact that it turned black...well those things didn't concern me but what did was the overwhelming smell of burning plastic that the ball produced. The smell was unmistakable and horrid. We have a wood burning stove in our house and occasionally a friend has come over and not realizing how hot the top gets, has put down a to-go box of food or a lego that they have picked up off the floor and that smell...that toxic burning plastic smell is something most of us are familiar with. This was NOT the smell of butane, this was NOT the smell of my soy candle....Brother is just was NOT. Trust me, I'm scratching my head as well. I did find some interesting articles that you might be interested in reading. Two are from that crazy conspiracy rag known to most of us as Popular Science. First article is titled: China's weather manipulation brings crippling snow storm. The second from the same magazine is called: Geo-engineering: Moscow mayor promises no snow this Winter. Just google them. Also please go to youtube and search for a video called Artificial snow creation Australia. This is a government sponsored geo-engineering project (besides the video you can also find lots of information online about this project designed to help alleviate ongoing drought conditions there). This is not conspiracy theory this is Science. The whole Western portion of our country is under a severe drought. In California it is historic. I saw on the news just last night that vineyards in California are starting to fail. California feeds a good portion of our nation. Do you not think that snow/rain is trying to be created here? Trust me, anything Australia, Russia or China can do, we can probably do better. Again, This is not hidden or a conspiracy theory, this is a fact. Also of interest for you may be searching "chemically nucleated snow" and last but not least an incredible video from MIT (that crazy conspiracy school) called "Using aerosol injections for geoengineering" a lecture from professor Joyce Penner. Joyce states that we are already creating rain and snow events in the United states (come on debunkers wake up!)...she is pro geo-engineering and is a designer of aerosols for this purpose. If you are smart enough to be a debunker then you are certainly smart enough or at least intuitive enough to understand behind every conspiracy theory is a bit of truth. Here is a link to the MIT lecture series video.
http://video.mit.edu/watch/using-aerosol-injections-for-geoengineering-4828/ I'm sure during the holocaust there were people nearby going around saying "I think they are gassing people over there and then throwing them in ovens to destroy the evidence" and then of course,there were others who were saying "don't be ridiculous, if that were happening we would surely know about it" and then turning around and doing the one finger circle around the head to indicate CRAZY. This snow was like nothing I had ever smelled....bottom line. PS. I hope all of this reads well because I'm tired, I need to go to bed and I don't have time to read over and edit is needed. I've got to say, I have enjoyed your other debunks.