How Cloud Seeding Boosts Rainfall -- and Why That's Controversial --Bloomberg

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How Cloud Seeding Boosts Rainfall — and Why That’s Controversial

A geoengineering technology that had fallen out of favor is making a comeback.

Bloomberg | Laura Millan | April 17, 2024

Humans started using chemicals to supercharge clouds’ capacity to release rain and snow decades ago, but the technology is gaining traction as climate change makes some regions hotter and drier. While popular in countries including the US and the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding remains controversial because it can have unintended consequences such as too much rain or increased pollution.

The debate around modifying and controlling the weather, also referred to as geoengineering the planet, has intensified as clean technologies and cuts to greenhouse gas emissions prove insufficient to halt global warming. Those in favor argue that dealing with the climate crisis is so urgent that no option should be left out, while those opposed warn of a lack of regulation, unforeseen side effects and a delay to the energy transition...

What is the history of cloud seeding?

Cloud seeding was developed during the 1940s and became popular in the US during the 1950s and 1960s as farmers, hydropower companies and ski resorts benefitted from additional precipitation. But it fell out of favor over the next decades as government funding dried up following revelations the US deployed a secret military seeding program during the Vietnam War. In 1977, the US, Russia, India and some European nations signed the Environmental Modification Convention banning weather modification techniques for military purposes.

the US deployed a secret military seeding program during the Vietnam War
Does anyone care what is "SECRET" anymore? Doesn't look like it.

More countries are exploring cloud seeding as accelerating climate change worsens the struggle for water. It’s used in western US states and European countries including France and Spain. China uses it regularly for irrigation purposes and also to regulate rainfall in Beijing, including during the 2008 Olympics...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/how-cloud-seeding-boosts-rainfall-and-why-that-s-controversial
https://archive.is/c6C9r

World Meteorological Organization
WxMOD Peer Review Report on Global Precipitation Enhancement Activities
Tue 4 Jul 2023
https://filecloud.wmo.int/share/s/_ujeyRLhRxGYsN05nO6X_Q


Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Dodging silver bullets: how cloud seeding could go wrong
Laura Kuhl | August 11, 2022

...The promise of creating rain is highly appealing in the face of increasing water shortages and disruptions to water cycles exacerbated by climate change. While cloud seeding is not a new technology—the first experiments took place in the 1940s—it fell out of favor in the 1980s for being an “unacceptable ethical and environmental hazard.” It is now back on the policy agenda as a climate adaptation strategy. Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and California have all expanded their cloud seeding operations in the past two years in response to the worsening drought. Despite its potential, the risks associated with cloud seeding are high, and there is significant danger that cloud seeding may do more harm than good...more
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/

But "it's not happening here" ! ROFL



It's helpful to remember that the US Government would never lie to its citizens, isn't it. And if anyone has the audacity to question the lying, cheating and thieving gang of crooks, just label them "conspiracy theorists" - that'll shut them the F up.