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Cloud seeding, explained. We flew up to see it with our own eyes.
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For decades, drought-stricken areas around the world have practiced “cloud seeding,” a process where chemical flares full of silver iodide are shot into clouds to encourage them to rain. But until recently, the science didn’t quite back this practice up. In large part, that’s because operational cloud seeding programs don’t have the luxury of conducting controlled tests - they have an obligation to produce as much rain as possible for the people living under the clouds they seed.
But there’s been a new breakthrough. In 2017, a major cloud seeding experiment in the mountains of Idaho showed that cloud seeding works; shooting chemical flares into the sky does produce more precipitation.
As the world faces an increasing number of heat waves and droughts, banking water is becoming more and more important. And while we don’t know exactly how life-changing cloud seeding will turn out to be, we do know it has the potential to be a tool in our arsenal in the long battle against worsening droughts.
To understand how cloud seeding works and what it’s already doing in Texas, watch this video and take a trip up to the clouds to see it yourself.
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Sources and further reading:
To get a deeper understanding of droughts in all their complexity, how they interact with the water cycle, and how climate change makes them worse, check out NRDC’s guide:
www.nrdc.org/stories/drought-...
To understand how tree-ring data and modern data are combined to get a better understanding of droughts over the last thousand years, check out this report:
newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/me...
To keep track of the many, severe droughts across the US, you can use the US Drought Monitor:
droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Curren...
To read about Texas’s state climate summary for 2022, click on this link:
statesummaries.ncics.org/chap....
To explore how Texas temperatures have changed over time, check out NOAA’s data here:
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/moni...
You can check out the results of the game-changing experiment that verified cloud seeding works here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
To read more about the United Nation’s predictions for droughts and water shortages, check out their report here:
www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/0...
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@Vox Год назад

Hello! Christina, Vox producer, here. Thanks for coming on this journey with me! As with all videos, there are always bits of information that don’t make it in. A tidbit I couldn’t include but found very interesting was that during the Vietnam War (or the American War, as they call it in Vietnam), the US secretly used cloud seeding as a weapon. Here’s a 1972 New York Times article that goes into more detail: www.nytimes.com/1972/07/03/archives/rainmaking-is-used-as-weapon-by-us-cloudseeding-in-indochina-is.html Were you familiar with cloud seeding before watching this video? Let me know in the comments!

@khalilahd. Год назад

Wow I actually had no idea about this! Thank you for informing us 🙏🏽

@theill3stgoblinking693 Год назад

Operation Sober Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967-1972

@MorRobots Год назад

San Angelo is oil filed country. I'm surprised the climate change conversation did not come up in this with regards to how the region did not really benefit from the value that was pulled from the ground and then used to worsen their situation.

@DanDCool Год назад

Hei hi yey²

@Kambra Год назад

That's not the only time it was 'secretly used'. It was also used by the brits to flood out german soldiers in ww2, but it was mutual destruction as it caused intense flooding for weeks

@ApprendreSansNecessite Год назад

It is worrying that people who can be in denial of the human impact on climate change are also provided with tools to directly manipulate the weather.

@grmpEqweer Год назад

❗‼️❗

@kay_knox Год назад

"We need to do something, we can't just sit on our hands" - man who doesn't believe in man-made climate change

@flyer3455 Год назад

This seems like an answer to climate change.

@flyer3455 Год назад

What's more is that who cares what they think. They have a practical solution to a practical problem. Neither my beliefs nor knowledge are making carbon emissions go away anytime soon.

@vinny7114 Год назад

my thoughts exactly

@robertcooper8533 Год назад

Forests are the most efficient sources of precipitation. Areas that were stricken with droughts and grew their forests back were able to modify rainfall patterns. But obviously you need a lot of forest. That's why its important to keep the vegetation around.

@Sinaeb Год назад

and that's why leaving bare fields of dirt to dry in winter is a bad idea

@mukkaar Год назад

Yep, what you really want is to overall improve the ecosystem. Unfortunately cheapest way to produce anything short term is by just straight up exploitation.

@terrific804 Год назад

Funny how 3 of the recent droughts shown in your graph occurred long before large scale CO2 production or any significant change in atmospheric CO2 levels...prior to 1950.

@Ninjaeule97 Год назад

@@terrific804 You know droughts existed before climate change, right? Climate change isn't creating them out of thin air, just making them more common and more server. Scientists figured out that CO2 traps heat and is therefore a greenhouse gas in the 1800s. If there was no greenhouse effect then life on earth wouldn't even be possible. Farmers sometimes even add CO2 to their greenhouses in winter so they don't have to heated as much. If it works in the lab and in those greenhouses then why shouldn't it also work for the atmosphere? Also if there is no climate change then why are shipping companies planning/ already chartering shipping routes through the arctic?

@thomasnikolaus4395 Год назад

@@terrific804 Coal was burnt large scale long before the 50s.

@Dontthankyu Месяц назад

Here after Dubai’s flooding

@hippopotamus86 18 дней назад

Global warming.

@JoshuaFatman 13 дней назад

Texas flooding now

@nathanlundstrom6848 Год назад

As a researcher on this topic, what this video fails to mention is that cloud seeding REQUIRES that the water is taken from somewhere else, it only induces rain, yet doesn’t CREATE water, and is therefore not a real solution because it just causes drought in places people can’t afford cloud seeding.

@MrMazzmosis Год назад

Came here to say this. CIA stole weather from Cuba in the 60's to hurt it's sugar exports. Today, Saudis are zapping clouds and making it rain in the desert. Humans dun goofed the planet.

@filippos989 Год назад

As he said it is a rain enchancer, its for more even distribution.. i thought that was obvious?

@Maklaka Год назад

Devil's advocate here -- isn't it possible that in some cases the seeded water would have rained into the ocean, thereby escaping freshwater banks/sources until it again evaporates? When viewed from that perspective, cloud seeding is a potentially cheaper and more effective than desalination?

@brianmadera1828 Год назад

Capitalism of rain. U need to pay for seeding so rain goes to u otherwise everyone else takes your rain.

@Sc0ttynzl Год назад

@@brianmadera1828 i don't think he has researched alot to be honest

@meade6291 Год назад

Farmer: I don't believe human activity is changing the weather... I want humans to fly over my farm and change the weather.

@Sannidor Год назад

I see what you did there. Worldwide climate is a cyclical phenomenon, it IS change. Weather is described as local and therefore a concept of micro-climates must be introduced to keep coherency. Humans don't have the ability to change climate and even with malicious efforts to shift weather on small scale the macro system will self regulate.

@meade6291 Год назад

@@Sannidor whilst I appriciate the elementary weather/climate lesson. I am already aware of the difference, but your condescending and verbose explanation missed the point. The agricultural laborer can't see the forrest for the trees.

@noejaun2540 Год назад

@@Sannidor Humans absolutely can affect climate. You truly fail to understand the scale of impact industrialization has on our environment. Humans are so capable they can actually study their own impact and our how climate is changing at artificial rate, not a natural.

@whatsursource Год назад

Average Texas hick

@raoulduke7668 Год назад

@@Sannidor oh humans can definitely affect the global climate. Just look at the ppm of CO2 since the industrial era and before. Greenhouse effect is a thing.

@daleykun Год назад

"No, humans can't possibly be causing climate change!" "Yes, of course seeding the clouds can change the weather!" How can you believe both of these things simultaneously?

@brunolondinese5857 Год назад

The same way we can believe the planet is warming even when it's a very cold day outside. Climate isn't weather.

@kennarajora6532 Год назад

I know we're all pointing out the errors in some of those farmer's logic, but we shouldn't forget that they're the one's who are going to suffer the most because of it.

@redbloodedbutterfly Год назад

@@kennarajora6532 Maybe they should consider not growing a water intensive crop like cotton in an area that gets hit by severe droughts.

@NA.NA.. Год назад

There's a difference between weather and climate.

@Cotif11 Год назад

@@kennarajora6532 You reap what you sow, quite literally, or rather not at all in this case. I have no sympathy, they're mostly all petty small-minded people anyways.

@ethanorange3705 8 месяцев назад

remember you are not 'creating' rain by this method but prioritising one region for rain over another

@sleverlight 26 дней назад

Yea I'm thinking what's the Ecological impact of this? It might stop rain going to a nearby forest

@DustFR Год назад

Doing this means reducing the rain elsewhere, important to note this. Cloud seeding might make the drought less impactful in one area but it may make it worse elsewhere

@Joexdude Год назад

I thought this too, but other places are getting too much water now. So I see this more as redistribution.

@blank.9301 Год назад

Same here in Australia. But at the same time, it's better to a more rain than less/none...

@Hansulf Год назад

I guess a place with over 1500mm/year is not going to notice 150mm/year drop

@picklesdill9138 Год назад

its a cycle... its not like the cloud is formed with set amounts of moisture... there is evaporation from areas that have adequate water supplies... so in short no... it is not keeping rain from other areas

@robinsss 9 месяцев назад

''''@@picklesdill9138 ''''''here is evaporation from areas that have adequate water supplies'''' the Pacific ocean

@Burdenedwarrior Год назад

I farm in Canada. I've always feared that Montana farmers would seed their clouds before they reach the boarder and rain on me. If you cause a cloud to fall it is not falling on someone else. We are in a two year drought right now.

@0Adnin Год назад

Can't believe this thing was tackled in comics. Concept was when you make artificial rain. You steal rain from somewhere else.

@Ardjano234 Год назад

It's gonna be 1812 again

@nathanlevesque7812 Год назад

@@0Adnin Dance Powder in Alabasta

@MarloSoBalJr Год назад

@@nathanlevesque7812 We just need Vivi to bring peace to our two worlds

@drmodestoesq Год назад

@@0Adnin What comic was that? Asking for a young friend.

@TheTrainmobile Год назад

For the past 5 minutes, I've been trying to figure out why I'm so bothered by the fact that some people who deny human-caused climate change recognize that climate change is real and that its effects will hurt them. I think the answer is that the same people will vote against measures to reduce carbon emissions. It's like they want protection for themselves and nobody else, so while everybody else suffers they'll be in the position to thrive and deny others their right to protection from climate change. But what they don't realize is that their selfishness will only lead to the problem becoming worse. This isn't like a natural disaster where whatever is inflicting the damage is localized. Climate change affects us all.

@TheSzyko Год назад

Humans have always been good at finding solutions to symptoms instead of solving the causes. As an environmental scientist, I’m deeply concerned about what will happen if we keep denying the fact that humanity is destroying planet earth rapidly and that we are in fact responsible for accelerating climate change.

@dejectedsmilez Год назад

@@TheSzyko it's not humanity, as much as it's the corporations. Blaming every day people is why nothing gets done, because you refuse to hold politicians accountable. You pick a side over feelings, and not for real change. You pick career politians, and lawyers, who are only out to fill their pockets. Stop saying it's humanity. It's literally the rich who are destroying the planet.

@terrific804 Год назад

Explain to me why people move from cold climates to warmer ones and then complain if the temperature goes up by a degree and a half?

@Artyomi Год назад

When the heat wave struck the UK a week or so ago, I remember seeing a lot of british people saying "I never realized how much climate change would affect me, and now i'm worried for the climate" - which really annoyed me that you had to feel the effects after it's too late to want to change anything, and only when you are personally affected - and not when you see major flooding and droughts in third world countries.

@terrific804 Год назад

@@Artyomi one thing you guys never take into account is our information technology and how the globalists use it to brainwash us. Years ago we never used to hear heard about things from every corner of the world. Now most of the bad things are Cherry Picked because it serves big business big government and media Revenue. I stopped the Sunday paper because I was sick and tired of hearing about ferry boats in Bangladesh overturning every weekend.....

@KirkLee1983 10 месяцев назад

And they use to call me a conspiracy theorist over saying they did this they finally admit it

@KalderAhm Год назад

Are those chemicals harmful to us, plants, animals or the earth? I didn't hear anything about that at all.

@mixup2216 Год назад

They said the impact on the environment (besides making it rain of course) was negligible at one point

@elizabethwallace-donnelly.2356 26 дней назад

Yes it has to be 😮😢

@Me-hf4ii 15 дней назад

They have not studied human or animal or plant impact. They anticipate that it will be minimal… so that’s reassuring 🙄

@davisb9074 14 дней назад

silver iodide is an extremely toxic inorganic compound.

@windriver2363 Год назад

I worry that it's a zero sum game. If people in one place practice cloud seeding, do other people down wind get less rain because there's less water in the air?

@nikujaga_oishii Год назад

in some countries, they are used to divert rains into agricultural water reservoirs before it reaches metropolitan areas, where rains are unwelcomed

@djones1558 Год назад

It could be used for political purposes.

@specific_pseudonym Год назад

This is what worries me. What happens to the farmers that are downwind? Does their drought just get worse? What about when an entire state or country does it, influencing the water availability to their neighbors? How will this impact water tables if this water never reaches them, and IDK, starves entire forests?

@himesilva Год назад

@@specific_pseudonym Sadly it’ll only happen if whoever is downwind, is poor

@NA.NA.. Год назад

The only people down wind of West Texas, is east texas, which is humid and receives the precipitation from ocean currents. The people they are theoretically stealing from have way more than enough.

@zachhomolka8512 Год назад

Without modifications to the extractive nature of current farming methods, this won't solve the problems. We need more no-till areas, better cover crops, and more natural areas that reinforce the natural water cycling touched on in this video. Forcing rain into an already parched landscape without fixing the issues which caused it won't be anything more than a temporary fix

@LutraLovegood Год назад

Like a band aid on a gaping wound.

@Elevendyeleven Год назад

Cloud seeding causes its own problems. Vox forgot to "explain" that part.

@jrh928 Год назад

@@Elevendyeleven such as?

@apexone5502 Год назад

@@Elevendyeleven such as? (©️ jrh)

@my2iu Год назад

I agree. It looks like the farmer tills his farmland, so the soil has likely lost its ability to hold moisture during droughts, and what little rain there is will evaporate quickly.

@omgyeti2049 Год назад

“The pilots fly through the clouds and leave a trail of chemicals that help form raindrops…” Conspiracy theorists: 👀

@selohcin Год назад

Exactly right. This was what Alex Jones was saying 15 years ago.

@thegrayinthefield8764 9 месяцев назад

It's the same basic premise: Water vapor condensing around aerosols. Cloud seeding has been a thing since at least the '60s. The main difference here is that they're probably not doing it to encourage rainfall.

@magneticflux7833 29 дней назад

This. And they they have a condensed area with what they are spraying. The long term effects of it at are unknown or even if it works. Just not ok with them spraying the sky's. It can't be healthy.

@bvilleD 27 дней назад

But commerical airlines are not cloud seeding,.lol

@gregoryf3771 Год назад

Planes releasing chemicals to control the weather: 1980s: science fiction 2000s: conspiracy theory 2020s: reality

@user-vz7jm1yj9c Год назад

1980-2021 -chemtrails! - no no its conspirasy theory, no no they dont exist , it is just water steam line behind jet engine 2022: ...

@edwardmitchellrealty4327 Год назад

Cloud seeding has been around since the 1940s. The conspiracy theories in the 2000s were saying jets were releasing chemicals to control people’s mind. Conspiracy theories generally aren’t that smart and never admit when they were wrong they just revise history.

@DJJonPattrsn22 Год назад

You just forgot the first entry: 1960s cloud seeding technology secretly invented (Or whenever it was...)

@hexahexametermeter 2 месяца назад

Vietnam War: Reality

@PotatoNamedCharlie Год назад

1:11 please include Celsius degrees so non Americans can understand too

@miljantrajkovic1862 Год назад

+ 1

@steviewonder2492 Год назад

-30 and divide by two is the arms length calculation otherwise google can translate it quickly to the exact number

@switch_lp1386 Год назад

Yes please

@deomnibusdubitandumest Год назад

Yes absolutely. Vox needs to know that their audience is not only Americans.

@rhinos111 Год назад

@@rythmater I don't think so. 30 degrees celsius is hot, 54 degrees farenheit is cold.

@feline.equation Год назад

but what they don’t tell you is that cloud seeding is hugely opposed by most scientists. i did a geography minor at the university of nevada, and one of the classes i took was about international water issues. the professor refused to talk about cloud seeding because she says it’s not a viable option to reduce the impact of droughts. instead, management programs are far more important. now that’s not to say everybody is on the same page when it comes to water, she had multiple guest speakers come to class with entirely opposing views when it came to solving water problems, but not one of those experts agreed with the practice of cloud seeding. also, she noted that china is the only place doing it on a large scale, and she thought that there was significant negative environmental impact.

@rainmanjr2007 Год назад

Bernie Vonnegut, brother of Kurt, was a founding member of cloud seeding. From his experiments at GE to The DoD they tried to make this work but it simply didn't. It sometimes created floods more severe than the drought's effects. It's in a book called The Brother's Vonnegut and I recommend it. Seeding seems to have grown in understanding from what Bernie found but your comment would seem to contradict that thought. I would use the land for large greenhouses that can produce with recycled and filtered water systems, or sell it to developers who will put up mass housing for the many climate migrants who are coming and move, but the answer isn't in temporary rain events.

@the_crypter Год назад

"she thought that there was significant negative environmental impact", Such as ? You can't leave us hanging.

@Sam-zq4yx Год назад

@@the_crypter Primarily it deprives another area of rain instead, disrupting the water cycle and weather systems there.

@the_crypter Год назад

@@Sam-zq4yx But in places like china they make it rain before those clouds go over a city and rain there where they would be wasted anyway.

@feline.equation Год назад

@@the_crypter she didn’t go into depth, basically just said that it’s junk science and wasnt content that belonged in her class about solving issues. a few people asked about it throughout the semester and she deflected every time and wouldn’t let somebody do their final project (a whole forum she puts on for students at research schools to look into water issues) on the subject. it’s a big time research school and she’s big into the environment and a really well trusted scientist.

@jonnupe1645 Год назад

90s 'oh no they're putting chemicals in the shy' 22s 'oh ya they're putting chemicals in the sky'

@MS-iy4bb Год назад

You’re growing cotton (huge water intensity crop), in a arid semi desert environment, and have water problems….. I’m shocked that you’re shocked! I wonder if they’re also studying how they’re changing things like air moisture, effects downwind areas….

@judithjanneck1719 Год назад

I think it's a nice temporary solution, but it should be used to help grow plants that have long-term effects on the wheather (read: trees) instead of using it to continue destorying nature.

@lin90210 Год назад

I agree

@cancerino666 Год назад

Terrible temporary solution. You aren't making it rain. You are stealing rain from someone else.

@roydaboii9925 Год назад

@@ingulari3977 well how are we gonna fix drought then?

@corynardin Год назад

The thing that I haven’t heard discussed is the consequence of removing the water before it was going to come down. What about the region behind the seeded area? Are they getting less rain?

@kinghassy334 Год назад

I can't believe this video doesn't discuss this at all, it's the fundamental problem that needs to be resolved

@roch.el_ Год назад

And it's such a logical question to ask. Which shows that they deliberately omitted to answer that

@ronni_boni7392 Год назад

While that is definitely an issue, it may still be viable for certain regions where wind direction takes the clouds to the sea before it rains. So with cloudseeding, rain can be used for these regions without adverse effects since rain wouldnt be of use at sea, with the knowledge that I have currently

@FranciscoBurrola Год назад

The Mexican states that are located South of Texas are deeply affected by drought, so you may be onto something

@jashannon Год назад

yes. it's theft.

@locti1552 Год назад

Doesn't really seem effective in the long run, since droughts are on the rise that means less rain clouds with less rain clouds means less opportunities to seed the cloud.

@windwatcher5 Год назад

But if the cloud seeding worked then wouldn't there be more rain which creates more lake water to evaporate into more clouds which then can be seeded. Kinda like making an orchard from the seeds of one apple.

@xavierrenger Год назад

"some farmers deny that human activity is driving climate change, but they all agree on one thing: things are definitely getting worse" HOW CAN YOU BE SO BLIND??

@athekeeper7234 Год назад

This feels bad. Desperate times calling for desperate measures that still aren't viable as long-term solutions. Thank you for the informative video

@BooRadleyTube Год назад

In many countries cloudseeding is a viable long-term solution. It's been used successfully in Australia for decades.

@eatplastic9133 Год назад

Yet we still have global warming, huge fires and temperature amplitudes

@somerandomguy7458 Год назад

Even if we stop emissions it would take 50-60 years to even have ANY noticeable impact

@5446isnotmynumber Год назад

@@somerandomguy7458 no matter what we do the climate will change, we are due for an ice age.

@Emerald_Forge Год назад

@@somerandomguy7458 After 200 years of constant imissions that's the best we can hope for. Plus stopping immisions isn't about reversing what we've done it's about stopping what's to come.

@user-pattt Год назад

By your explanation, cloud seeding seems like putting a plaster on a massive wound. Also I'd like to point out that ground water is not a renewable resource a common misconception.

@PG-3462 Год назад

Water is a renewable resource. When we consume water, we can easily clean it back using even simple tools. It's fossil groundwater that's not renewable, and places like Arizona and Texas use tons of it. Edit: typo

@user-pattt Год назад

@@PG-3462 Non-renewable water resources are not replenished at all or for a very long time by nature. This includes the so-called fossil waters. Renewable water resources are rechargeable due to the hydrological cycle unless they are overexploited, comprising groundwater aquifers and surface water like rivers and lakes.

@chunky16 Год назад

I understand that they use silver iodide to sort of coax the water out of the clouds as rain and they repeatedly do this if the clouds hold on to that water too much to kinda help the natural cycle happen? I think that means they're not adding more water from somewhere else

@maximeleclerc327 Год назад

Water doesnt simply dissapear from our universe, it is transformed into a different form. The problem come when the cycle of regeneration of water is broken. Its really hard to get it back to work, in fact, it is so hard that even our planet doesnt know how to do it, thats a reason we have deserts in many places in the world, because the cycle doesnt work there

@PG-3462 Год назад

@@user-pattt Congrats, you litterally just explained why your first comment doesn't make sense.

@caz6152 Год назад

Permaculture is the solution. Not further polluting the water cycle with more chemicals

@Voiceofreason772 Год назад

Yes!

@Hansulf Год назад

I wish... Permaculture can't solve all our needs.

@caz6152 Год назад

@@Hansulf permaculture is the solution for stabilizing the water cycle. I didn't say it would meet all our needs... that was your narrative addition.

@Hansulf Год назад

@@caz6152 Well, if permaculture is not going to meet our needs, then we need to apply another system, right?

@caz6152 Год назад

@@Hansulf is this where you tell me to buy Bitcoin ?

@drgibs347 Год назад

We have been seeding clouds for rain for quite a few decades now, this isnt a thing we just figured out, i learned about this in school in the early 1990s.

@thomasowenmazzetti7877 Год назад

I just defended my PhD on this subject at the University of Wyoming, working with the people who did the SNOWIE experiment. I focus on the orographic wintertime seeding efforts in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. My work shows an increase in precipitation of 1.1% for these seeded storms.

@kennarajora6532 Год назад

It must be nice to see that your hard work is changing the world

@JermStone Год назад

Increase precipitation in one area... decrease it in another.

@inafridge8573 Год назад

1.1% is a lot less than 15. Is that because it's Wyoming, rather than a place as arid as Texas? Or?

@andrews9054 Год назад

Do you have any data on whether it negatively impacts precipitation in surrounding regions? Also does an increase of 1% make a significant enough difference that it would be worth the cost of cloud seeding?

@thomasowenmazzetti7877 Год назад

wintertime stuff in the mountains that i study is a bit different of a situation that is easier to nail down the yield. summer time programs like the one showcased in this video are much more difficult to nail down the impacts and that "15%" is a verryyyyy uncertain guess to my knowledge.

@armadillospaz Год назад

This is nothing new. Countries in Asia have already gone to court over disputes of one country "stealing" another countries rain by causing more intense landfall on one countries soil rather than the other, thus diminishing the total volume of water left to be released in precipitation. Water is a finite resource.

@smishra115 Год назад

The phrase 'Humans have finally...' suggests this is new. People have been doing this for ages across the world. Even in the US it has been done time and again since the 40s

@JohnnyRempit Год назад

I find it baffling that farmers, of all people, can be in denial about the affects of climate change. Is it something in the water?

@doctorbigsmiles Год назад

It's something in the kool-aid

@urassisdragon 8 месяцев назад

Gpa was a chemical engineer in 40s and think this technology existed before that. He was a believer in this technology so I have wondered why it hasn’t been used more. He also stress tested airplanes so maybe he should have delved more into this technology. I had miss remembered it as silver nitrate not iodide. Very nice-thanks for sharing!

@jerrywang8945 Год назад

Cloud seeding only works if there are water-filled [thundstorm] clouds in the area (I.e. rain enhancers). The main problem is that climate change is altering the formation of water-filled clouds.

@laddo Год назад

Literally what the video says.

@janeblogs324 Год назад

You haven't realised they are heating water bodies to form the clouds. Search bill gates powerplants in the middle of the ocean. The clouds they produce can be seen from space

@robinsss 9 месяцев назад

not true the clouds don't have to b water filled the seeding will pull water from the surrounding air into the cloud making it bigger

@RosyOutlook2 9 месяцев назад

" Cloud seeding only works if there are water-filled [thundstorm] clouds" Nope they spray aerosols which have metal nanoparticles in them. "Ice nucleation by micas" use of Pseudomonas syringae particles Silica aerogel nanopowder, nano-sized titanium dioxide, silver iodide, barium strontium, aluminum And " Nanoparticle additive fuels: Atomization, combustion and fuel characteristics" are added to aircraft fuel "The main problem is that climate change is altering the formation of water-filled clouds" Nope, weather and climate engineering is altering the weather and climate.

@johndoeing Год назад

In 20 years: how silver iodine rain poisoned the groundwater

@spooniiboii Год назад

@@Nate-.- that is still the same thing, I'm fairly sure because iodide is iodine, like 99% sure

@AdmiraloftheCrackNavy Год назад

@@spooniiboii And iodine is an essential nutrient. That's why salt is enriched with it.

@dsur5547 Год назад

The amounts of silver iodide used have a negligible effect on the environment

@zmarc- Год назад

@@spooniiboii iodine is the element, iodide is an iodine ion in a salt compound(has 1 extra electron), therefore Silver Iodide is still correct

@spooniiboii Год назад

@@zmarc- I wasn't saying he was wrong I was just saying

@Immafuggin182 Год назад

There once was a man who knew how to make a special mixture that he would release into the air which created rain clouds and rain. He would go to towns who needed water from drought. His mixture worked too well sometimes, flooding a town with too much rain. Unfortunately he never wrote his recipe down and he never trained anyone in his methods so the mixture was lost to time. I have faith that one day someone will figure out the right combination that gentlemen did.

@joeldipu6754 Год назад

They do this in the UAE 🇦🇪 too. In New Year's Eve 2021 , they cloudseeded All of Uae and it was raining for 3 hrs. The roads were full of water

@videosinmyplaylist 28 дней назад

Now it's more than obvious

@joeldipu6754 27 дней назад

@videosinmyplaylist Well I have seen the news and the government is saying they did not do any cloudseeding before the 16th April floods,so who knows what caused it.

@terramater Год назад

Surprisingly, cloud seeding has become daily practice by now across China. When we shot our video on the wilderness along the Sino-Russian border region, we were shocked how everything around there is controlled by humans: the fields, the river, and yes - even the rain.

@astroch Год назад

Waiting for the redscare comments down here.

@optimx314 Год назад

but... communism bad!

@orionsbelt9381 Год назад

Is it good or bad?

@O_-mg8dm Год назад

@@orionsbelt9381 May be good, prevents droughts and helps crops grow.

@m_lies Год назад

China has regions that would normally have no real rainfall, but these regions have the best soil for plants, so by using cloud seeding they can produce a huge amount of crops in regions where it would have been impossible, like California in Amerika where it's only due to aqueducts that plants can be grown. But it has effects on climate, when you take water away before it reaches its original destination, this water will come short for the original region, but for now, no study can really say whether or not it affects the climate long time, but we know it changes something in the cycle, and that the biodiversity can be endangered by it. overall there are concerns because of weather change and the chemicals used (silver iodide, potassium iodide, or solid carbon dioxide), that it's most likely risky and endanger marine life, stall plant growth, damage the ozone layer, and reduce rainfall and increasing warming in other areas. also not always does it go as planned In "2009, China used cloud-seeding to bring reprieve to a drought. As a result, the temperatures suddenly dropped and Beijing was blanketed in the snow" (Pacific standard). Also Over 190 countries have agreed to a 2010 United Nations ban on using the climate engineering technology for large-scale climate engineering over concerns about its effect on biodiversity and so on, but china and other countries still use this on a very large scale...

@kathlynp.6697 Год назад

Question: does the silver iodide affect the environment?

@teraiii8141 Год назад

Cloud seeding does not amount to a harmful level of sodium iodide. Therefore it does not, however cloud seeding does , it can cause changes in rainfall patterns .If done wron , it can also create massive changes in temperature within an area.

@anahata2009 Год назад

That was my question, too. The report they highlighted here talked about "negligible" effects, but that's pretty vague. The report talked about silver being detected in parts per trillion in the water, and parts per billion on the ground (so, apparently higher concentration on ground), but that these were less than what's expected in the natural background quantity of silver. However, my question is, would repeated seeding result in an accumulation that eventually goes above what's considered safe. Sure, concentrations might be low when sampling after one experiment, or even a few experiments, but what if they're seeding on a regalar basis? What then? We shouldn't make communities into guinea pigs while we test this out.

@Dudix Год назад

@@teraiii8141 just image an area where they did cloud seeding for a decade or two. U think it would still not be a harmful level ?

@lutzkobbbel4254 Год назад

@@anahata2009 Yeah seems like a big point to let out of this video

@sushanalone Год назад

@@teraiii8141 It could if you do it regularly over decades.

@Yamato-Yamato888 20 дней назад

UAE Floods are caused by cloud seeding in UAE cloud seeding project . It also causes flood damage in neighboring countries. And takes away natural rainfall in the surrounding areas, accelerating dryness, forest fires, droughts, and deserts. In order to make natural rainfall, it is necessary to green the desert and increase forests.

@fuedaseoyt Год назад

I can't believe you didn't covered the problems with cloud seeding.

@flashdolphin Год назад

Isn't making a cloud rain prematurely or rain more than it otherwise would essentially stealing that rain from the places where it would have fallen naturally? If not done responsibly, I fear this could end up causing environmental disruptions or droughts where there normally wouldn't be. In the worst case, this could cause international conflicts. I can easily see this being utilized as a tactic to purposely bring droughts to neighboring nations or for gate keeping the rain for economic gains.

@gmarefan Год назад

Not impossible, although there are places that get too much rain or snow, or the ocean.

@picklesdill9138 Год назад

youre ignoring the fact that there is a cycle...so areas beyond the ones they seed will feed more water into the cycle through evaporation...

@Eusantdac Год назад

Yes, cloud seeding is basically turning clouds into water prematurely. That can have a lot of implications.

@soulfulnick Год назад

Cloud seeding was first used in the Vietnam War in 1967 in an attempt to wash out Vietnamese infrastructure with unusually large rains.

@user-mc6vi8yd7l Год назад

did it work probably doesn't matter cuz they lost anyway

@prdamico Год назад

@@user-mc6vi8yd7l yes, it worked

@fordtski Год назад

@@user-mc6vi8yd7l Vietnam did not lose?

@Adrian-kb4rg Год назад

@@fordtski he clearly meant the americans

@tuckerbugeater Год назад

@@user-mc6vi8yd7l The US military also considered using smallpox. Wouldn't be the last bioweapon they considered using. Thanks to Fauci, biowarfare is still alive.

@txic7850 29 дней назад

THIS DID NOT AGE WELL

@Clouds-su3dc 26 дней назад

Here right now after hearing about Dubai flooding from cloud seeding. I think they should try cloud seeding in the farther north areas for more snow to save the animal wildlife there and to make the temperature even colder because more snow on the ground equals more sunlight getting reflected back to space keeping the temperatures colder since temperatures are rising. They also said seeding the atmosphere with millions of tons of ice particles will prevent greenhouses from building up and cause it to fall back to earth.

@spookyhokum Год назад

Little known fact: Kurt Vonnegut Jr's brother, Bernard Vonnegut, discovered silver iodide and effectively invented cloud seeding in 1946.

@loturzelrestaurant Год назад

Has Vox ever covered Worker-Rights and -Struggles as good as 'Some More News' and 'Second Thought', who get showered iwth Praise for this very thing?

@billypilgrim1 Год назад

Uncle Bernie

@JavierFernandez01 Год назад

chem trails dont exist! ;)

@zacharytaylor190 Год назад

@@JavierFernandez01 Not in the sense that everyone talk about. Airliners would not be used for this, since it would be way too expensive, and they fly too high for it to have any effect. They are also not rated to fly as close to cumulonimbus clouds as these planes are, where an STC has been issued by the FAA. The white streams coming from an airliner's turbofans are a combination of Carbon Dioxide, uncombusted Kerosene, Nitrates, and most importantly Water. The atmospheric stability, relative humidity, temperature, and pressure all play an important role as to how fast they dissipate, as does the thrust setting of the airplane. They don't produce contrails at low power, or close to the ground. They do when the surrounding air is cold and humid, with a high power setting, as is normally the case in cruise flight. Kerosene (Jet A-1) is composed of many hydrocarbons, but a very prevalent one is dodecane (C12H26) [2C12H26 + 37O2 => 24CO2 + 26H2O]. This would be with perfect combustion in a pure oxygen atmosphere. One of the 2 products of the reaction is water, that has the ability to condense and from clouds. That's where the water comes from. These planes use flares, not spray (at least where I am from. It could be different elsewhere). Liquid doesn't disperse as easily and is generally heavier per volume of effective nucleation site dispersement.

@nickc3657 Год назад

I guess that explains some of the inspiration for Cat’s Cradle!

@MikeLi1019 Год назад

People still denying climate change?!

@tuckerbugeater Год назад

Are people still denying the sun is hot?

@austinhernandez2716 Год назад

A huge portion of Americans, yes

@jordanlakey3681 Год назад

This is the water cycle that keeps us alive. Wow thank you for the review of 2nd grade science

@lalogascoine3388 Год назад

The problem is tha you are getting water with heavy metals on it. Better to seed forests.

@ashwinjohari Год назад

What happens to the Silver Iodide that falls down with the rain on the farm soil? What effects does that have on the quality of crops that grow? I am surprised that's not even mentioned as that was the first question I had in my head. This almost looks like a promotional video sponsored by a pro cloud seeding company.

@djones1558 Год назад

Shh. You're not supposed to ask questions or think about long term consequences. As a farmer, however, it concerns me too.

@escapefromtibet2530 Год назад

@@djones1558 stop with that conspiracy nonsense. Of course you are allowed to ask questions

@unidentifiedleiviathan7250 Год назад

@@escapefromtibet2530 hes pointing out that they are not thinking long term

@Ash-tree420 Год назад

Eventually it's going to come back to bite us. Lab tests on silver iodide show that it is toxic to plants and animals. It's also going to end up in the ocean and other water bodies.

@djones1558 Год назад

@@unidentifiedleiviathan7250 Yep!

@invader_britt Год назад

I heard about this some time ago. But the issue is you’re obviously taking that water from another place that needs it as well so then we’re just creating new problems. So it just goes back to real long term solution is solving climate change

@zyansheep Год назад

Not necessarily, you could be taking water from clouds that would otherwise rain back into the ocean which isn't useful to anyone.

@Jeyblox Год назад

One piece alabasta arc in a nutshell

@ilovebeinghydrated Год назад

I dont think we will solve climate change in time. The world is too corrupt

@somecanadianboy667 Год назад

@@Jeyblox exactly

@miguelmoreton226 Год назад

Well those people are living the direct, more severe consequences of climate change and they still deny that humans have an impact on it. Amazing...

@chuck948 Год назад

When we noticed this was happening years ago we were called conspiracy theorists as per usual just ahead of the curve

@aquilesaldazoro6397 Год назад

Around 2018 in Venezuela, people started getting sick with rare simptoms. The government said it was a new mosquito desease. Some venezuelan scholars said that it was intoxication caused by chemical the government use to make more rain. The whole electric grid in Venezuela is run by hidroeléctricas and the absence of rains caused some electrical problems. I have some worries of the long term effects of those chemical that they use to force raining.

@YoungGandalf2325 Год назад

Is it possible that cloud seeding might reduce cloud cover and have adverse effects on the climate? If clouds reflect solar radiation it seems this would contribute to global warming/climate change. Maybe it's too early to know at this point.

@idzkk Год назад

No proof of that. This is old tech i first heard 20 years ago but infact it has its origins from 1946(war is over scientists are back at doing something useful)

@PeepGamePopoff Год назад

Is it possible they’ve been doing this for decades and have been manipulating the weather whenever they want

@sibproust9369 Год назад

One my side I will be more worried that it reduces the overall rainfalls, maybe there will a slight increase on the program's crops, but I'm sure the neighbors will suffer a lack of water (I'm glider pilot).

@oldvlognewtricks Год назад

Reducing cloud cover also reduces albedo, so it’s definitely a factor… doubly so when it is used to form reservoirs, since large bodies of water also have lower albedo than other surface cover such as vegetation or geology.

@fcgHenden Год назад

@@sibproust9369 But it says right there in the video. 15% more annual rainfall after seeding. 😒 Idk if it really works or if it's more correlation than causation but assuming you get less rain after data says you have more rain is a bit of a stretch, yeah? I mean, why gather data at all?

@CompletelyRandomUser Год назад

One guy wrote a comment under one of youtube videos that he has been desert-farming for years in Texas and has been watering his plants just once a month instead of several times a month, but still has been getting good results. His secret is placing a layer of peat moss (or something like that) 3 feet under the ground. I'd also put a sheet of plastic under the peat moss in order to conserve the water and may be put something above the ground that gives light shadow. It's very hard to grow something under the sun with no clouds, so there should be technologies applied to conserve water and prevent soil from drying up and cracking. That's my opinion. I'm not an expert.

@Sinaeb Год назад

like, letting nature grow plants when you're not using the land?!

@vamsikrishnabodaballa2739 Год назад

It kinda disrupts the water cycle. By not letting water seep in, the ground water depletes which results in empty lakes and dams which causes lesser evaporation and in turn lesser water in the clouds and also drinking water shortage.

@stefaniemerceron5976 Год назад

@@vamsikrishnabodaballa2739 Also putting plastic into the ground is never a truly good idea.

@MP-jc7er Год назад

The plastic sheet is mulching paper and is also used to reduce weed growth

@JillWhitcomb1966 Год назад

There was an article in Popular Science magazine in June 2017 about cloud seeding. In fact, here in Fargo, North Dakota, a local business called Weather Modification Inc has been flying all over the world for 10+ years to do cloud seeding

@needaladyfriend1 4 месяца назад

Wait a minute…so you’re saying that they’re gonna spray aerosolized chemicals from planes in order to modify the weather?

@andro7862 Год назад

“Have finally figured out” This technology was known since the 1960s

@herisuryadi6885 Год назад

They said the 40s on the video itself

@ezekielteklaking Год назад

The science and medical community still have not come to a consensus on the prolonged use and exposure of silver iodide. Siting different climates with different concentrations over time will have varying unpredictable results. Silver iodide is not bioavailable and will concentrate in soils over time.

@rubenj3128 Год назад

Man, this is going to be one big mess. Rain falling in one place means drought on another spot. What if that other spot is in another country? Long term downsides could be really huge as well.

@robertcoulson483 Год назад

Cloud seeding was a topic back in the 1960's. The question most asked was, who's cloud moisture is it ? If they seed the clouds before they reach my land, where is my water coming from?

@YogiMcCaw Год назад

10-15% improvement is laudable, but far short of sufficient. Also, if the droughts are going to get worse, there'll be less clouds to seed in the first place. It's a band-aid solution at best. We need to curb not only CO2 but also Methane emissions drastically, in a heck of a hurry, to avoid profound changes in the Earth's climatic zones. We're causing the end of one geologic age and the starting of another. Try to wrap your head around that. In spite of all the press climate change gets, it's still bigger, over a longer period of time, than most people understand. You have to mentally zoom out and think of Earth in geologic time spans to really get how serious this issue is. I suggest watching a lot of geology videos. The geologists and the paleontologists are the ones who really have a grasp of what's happening now, because they make a living studying similar changes that have happened in the past.

@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 Год назад

Jesus. Reading your comment literally caused my bp to go up. I’m off to find videos

@5446isnotmynumber Год назад

Prepare for food shortages before its to late...

@vilvero Год назад

Trees make rain, thus we need more trees.

@vdjKryptosRock Год назад

Cloud seeding doesn’t “fix” anything. I appreciate the science you’re laying down though

@SuperRonaldPig Год назад

Helps a bit 15%. It something 🤖

@aydenfellerhoff3160 Год назад

@@SuperRonaldPig it helps those willing to pay for it - rain for you means no rain for others downstream

@martingros7071 Год назад

I fear that if we drain the clouds more than they already rain, the area covered by clouds will shrink and thus the atmispheric sunlight reflection will decrease too locally, resulting in more heating on the ground and worsen droughts otherwise. In this case cloud seeding would be counterproductive.

@Fr0gSplashh Год назад

Hubris of humanity at work again. Instead of just admitting we have overexploited areas that cannot sustain intensive agriculture and try to rethink our terrible ways, we're just gonna try to force clouds to rain now...

@iniyaraj5665 Год назад

Didn't they try it in an Indian state of Tamilnadu almost a decade earlier . They actually tried it twice , the first time it was successful and the second time the winds weren't favourable and it backfired and caused excessive rainfall in the neighbouring country srilanka .

@amazingWorld-qm6bk 27 дней назад

India should start cloud seeding. It's soaring temperature 40 degree Celsius in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

@enhydramatic Год назад

In Russia, it is common practice to do cloud seeding around big cities before holidays - so that it rains somewhere else rather than in the city during the holiday. Usually they do it before Victory day to clear the sky for flypasts.

@zacharytaylor190 Год назад

Relatively common in Alberta during the summer, although for a different reason. We can get some really nasty hailstorms when the warm moist air comes over the rocky mountains. This can destroy crops, punch holes in house siding, dent cars, and even seriously injure anyone unfortunate enough to be outside. It's not 100%, but it tends to reduce the size of hailstones, thus increasing crop yield and decreasing damage to both people and property.

@nicolebuhendwa8342 17 дней назад

I’m I my here because of the Dubai situation of heavy rains that happened recently, and the most likely source of their issues is cloud seeding.

@deadlyassistant9123 18 дней назад

This hasn’t aged well for Dubai

@RjMeelar Год назад

If one area pays to increase their rain by 15% have they also paid to decrease their neighbors rain by 15%? And if serious sustained drought is an issue what stops a wealthy county full of golf courses and suburban lawns from doing this?

@ALueLLah Год назад

That’s not how this works…

@BPS298 Год назад

@@ALueLLah it is though? Using cloud seeding your taking water out of the cloud. That means that more water falls on one area but after that the cloud doesn’t have enough water to really rain much in a different area.

@RjMeelar Год назад

yep, in the same way there are river compacts that agree who can take what water out, similarly if this is as effective as they are saying there would probably needs to be federal limits on how often you can do it.

@ALueLLah Год назад

First and foremost, inducing more rain by seeding won’t affect the clouds in neighboring areas, as crystallization effect from silver doesn’t just jump cloud to cloud… and clouds are not stationary objects, they move and shift with wind, so you can’t order rain like takeout just with money. The rain from seeding helps large area as the rain cloud travels according to weather patterns. Secondly, considering these are high drought areas, extracting more rain from the cloud likely results in more downpour than the neighboring cities will experience naturally anyways. And let’s not forget that rain, like clouds, is not stationary and there will be overflow. Farms and cities alike rely heavily on rivers and dams, which are replenished by rain, and used by many counties over, so yes, this would really benefit the whole region. Really. Let’s be logical this isn’t science fiction.

@RjMeelar Год назад

@@ALueLLah thanks Al, but we already knew what clouds were.

@RiCe_HoE_69 Год назад

We have had this technology for a while now, they have done this in many different countries. Dubai has been doing this many years.

@dtamerz Год назад

Paired with a drone distribution system that runs on an AI that can track and auto send to clouds, this could honestly become a way to bring water to over drying areas and may even be used to increase farm yield.

@kevinfreeman29 Год назад

Pay attention when they start spraying...watch the weather change...I've been keeping track for 4 years now, I never been wrong so far.

@dndndndndn419 Год назад

Ya gotta love the cognitive dissonance of acknowledging that the climate is getting worse but refusingto admit humans are the cause / solution.

@daviga1 Год назад

Left hand: Humans aren't causing atmospheric changes by releasing co2 Right hand: lets release chemicals to change the atmosphere

@vinny7114 Год назад

infuriating right? of course it's in Texas.

@terrific804 Год назад

The cognitive dissonance is more about the seriousness and understanding of the problem and its solution rather than acknowledging it.

@nikujaga_oishii Год назад

more like Vox finally figured out this actually exists

@paulgee5068 5 месяцев назад

Is this why this cloud seading is being banned in texas due to health concerns

@SCHEPPEL 14 дней назад

Ask Dubai how that is working out.

@jessisage4708 Год назад

From personal experience, in Phoenix AZ, seeding the clouds has made the infrequent storms more detrimental. The storms bring stronger winds and torrential downpour when it does rain. Instead of feeding my thirsty plants they're ripped up from the roots and snapped off in the wind.

@PaulHo Год назад

Born and bred in SoCal, so I'm intimately familiar with drought and the need for rainfall. However, attacking the broader problem with an actual bullet while ignoring issues like human effects on climate and environment, not to mention knocking down these farmers bent on tradition and not knowing anything else while willfully ignoring the harm they've done with monoculture agriculture and romanticizing their ridiculous simple life, is such a joke. Tanner could get it though.

@tubester4567 Год назад

Those farming methods allowed the world population to increase several fold, and brought food stability to billions of people. To get really serious about climate change means high energy prices which will affect mostly the poor. There are already western countries with electricity prices so high, working class people cant afford to heat their homes. This debate needs to change from "what are others" doing about climate change to "this is what Im giving up to stop climate change"

@PaulHo Год назад

@@tubester4567 what we've given up as a society is the environmental cost, and in many cases, our livelihood. The corporations have offloaded the responsibility to consumers, making us recycle after they've already charged us the CRV and forcing municipalities to take on the multi stream operations, paid for my tax dollars. This is your argument of what we're willing to pay and do. It's already on us and why corporations need to be held accountable. Yes, the most disadvantaged do suffer disproportionately. That's by design of the very same system. Not everyone can afford to not redeem those bottles and cans, those populations are forced to collect and cash in large mounds of waste to get back what's theirs.

@DEADIKATED Год назад

I remember reading this in a science book in elementary school in the 80s my science book had to have been from the 60s/70s

@phillypaolo Год назад

What about deforestation??? We completely deforested the whole US and now we are surprised it's not raining anymore...

@gohanr1271 Год назад

All I can think of Is the Alabasta ark in one piece. Where the twist reveal is that water capture technology was used to heighten disparity with water capture & distribution between regions. Perhaps pessimistic of me but I am immediately worried as to how this technology can be misused.

@2389jonjon Год назад

you should look into what happened when they tried this in the '70s it almost destroyed a town called Big lake Texas with record setting hail

@afghans0ldier Год назад

This was discovered in 2000's but put in affect in 2018 and in Saudi Arabia and Qatar!

@mildredsmiles 7 месяцев назад

I'm 28 years old and I want to be a mother. But with this technology, I'm thinking of not putting my kids at this kind of torture. Can be useful but can be dangerous too when put to the hands of evil.

@Scuttlee Год назад

Is the silver that falls on the ground good for plants or humans? I mean, will it end up in the harvest and so in our food? Are there gonna be issues with less cloud-shielding from heat and an overheating that might cancel the effects of the enhanched precipitation? If that water gets to be taken down from the clouds "earlier" than when there are enough water droplets in the sky to create new precipitation, wouldn't it just make it rain more earlier and less later? I'd like to see a video also about the possible issues vox. Btw, thanks for your informative videos as always

@user-hc9sk3mg1h Год назад

Just enough to cause extreme weather to push climate change and force food shortage.

@Baelune Год назад

There is an accidental Pond5 individual frame at 6:56 still in the video between the storm footage and the following scene

@user-lb1fv3pn5m 11 месяцев назад

i'm sorry that Texas doesn't have enough funds to fund cloud seeding. here in south eastern europe, thank god, we have seeding every day. countless planes fly over my head every day for years and i have to tell you it's beautiful. the sun is beautiful, sparkling white and the sky never turns blue, so it's good and healthy, always ready for some kind of healthy, enriched rain

@mooonlight778 4 месяца назад

we, as humans, definitely should not be doing this.

@Leo-py1zd Год назад

Guys in stripclubs were ahead of time

@GonzalezSix67 Год назад

Cloud seeding has been here for a while. Back in Vietnam they used cloud seeding to flood the underground tunnels where the Vietnamese hid. Look it up, there’s RU-vid videos on it.

@janeblogs324 Год назад

To cause landslides

@rosereeder2612 5 месяцев назад

By posioning everything

@charleswas0419 8 месяцев назад

Silver comes from the Anglo-Saxon word SEOLFOR!

@PhonePhone-sf8te Год назад

Vox is about 60 years too late for this story.

@sethart22 Год назад

Would have been great to investigate the impact of using those chemicals released in the air, and the fact that forcing rain on farming area will deprive even more other areas. We need to stop unsustainable agriculture, corn for example is a massive waste of water. This is putting a bandage on a bullet wound. Agriculture is the biggest consumer of water by a huge margin, we need to rethink our way to farm. Not force the rain with planes and chemicals that contribute to global warming.

@BooRadleyTube Год назад

Your comment is so full of errors I'm not sure where to start. These objections have been raised and openly discussed for decades. The chemical used, silver iodide, is perfectly safe for crops and dams. A microscopic quantity of the substance is used. It's absolutely false that silver iodide is a "chemical that contributes to global warming." It's also not the case that "forcing rain on farming areas will deprive even more other areas." Cloud-seeding programs, of which there are many around the world, are cautious about where and when they seed. They also have only marginal control over where and when rainclouds appear. The idea is that they squeeze as much rain as possible from a rain-cloud that will be passing by anyway. They don't and can't steal rain from one area and "force" it to fall on another. Cloud-seeding is a sustainable, environmentally-friendly solution that can support hydro-electric schemes as well as sustainable crops. If we're serious about mitigating the effects of climate change, we need to be open-minded about what science has to offer.

@ShadNex Год назад

@@BooRadleyTube exactly

@sevnightingale Год назад

Regenerative Agriculture would help a lot too. If the rain falls onto dirt, it evaporates easily, if it falls onto healthy soil, it will hold that water in.