Posted on 01/03/2025 9:37:35 AM PST by BenLurkin
The report comes from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan watchdog group that investigates the U.S. government. It’s narrowly focused on “cloud seeding,” the practice of adding silver iodide crystals to clouds to make them bust and give up that sweet sweet rain. As droughts hit the western states on a routine basis, many local governments are attempting to use cloud seeding to bring the rains.
It’s not working well. The GAO conceded there’s some validity to cloud seeding, but that it’s almost impossible to measure its effectiveness. “Cloud seeding may increase water availability and result in economic, environmental, and human health benefits. In the studies GAO reviewed, estimates of the additional precipitation ranged from 0 to 20 percent,” the report said. “However, it is difficult to evaluate the effects of cloud seeding due to limitations of effectiveness research.”
The idea of seeding clouds with something to make them rain started in the late 19th century but wasn’t studied and perfected until after World War II. “Scientists demonstrated the basis of cloud seeding in the 1940s when they observed in the laboratory that water present in clouds could be artificially induced to create ice crystals using dry ice or silver iodide crystals,” the GAO said in its report. “Extensive federal funding of research and development, including field experimentation, followed this discovery. For example, in fiscal year 1978, total federal funding for weather modification was approximately $68 million, in 2024 dollars.”
Scientists could never quite prove it worked. Or, if it did, how effective the seeding was. In the 1980s, the federal government slashed cloud seeding funds. ...rado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) are seeding the clouds.
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Whadda mean? I thought this was all a tinfoil-hat, right-wing, black helicopter conspiracy theory?
This is just cloud seeding.
Not Dick Chene3y’s hurricane machine.
“Whadda mean? I thought this was all a tinfoil-hat, right-wing, black helicopter conspiracy theory?”
It’s FR, what do you expect? There ain’t no such thing as aliens and if there are they’re demons.
Chance of showers is now a “Special Weather Statement” ,LOL
Wouldn’t this limit the rain of the further areas of cloud travel? How would this be different than upstream diversion of a river. Could this be construed as infringing on the water rights of others?
So, akin to chem trails and all that, huh?
1. You can’t get blood from a turnip. No clouds, no water.
2. It’s a zero sum game. If it actully works, someone (probably to the east) probably gets less rain.
Interesting article on cloud seeding during the Vietnam War:
Somebody thought it worked at that time.
I’m surprised the Feds missed the obvious. This can easily be solved by throwing more money at the problem.
I’d say double the project’s budget, at least.
My understanding is that cloud seeding is heavily used in the mountain west to increase snowpack and in the dry coastal mountains of california to increase rainfall. I’ve read that seeding results in about a 9% increase in precipitation.
It has been recently adopted in the gulf states in the middle east where its reputed to have caused some serious flooding.
What was HAARP’s actual purpose?
Why does most of the world use small, low powered, transmitters for their cellular service, but the United States uses huge, tall, high-powered transmitters?
Yes, those two things are related.
Uh-oh, someone slipped and the truth got out.
They should ask the Israelis how they manage to steal clouds and create hurricanes.
I want a refund from Fat Albert Gore.
Hadn’t seen this one. Thanks.
But banning gasoline cars, putting everybody in EVs, banning coal fired power plants, and building millions of solar farms and windmills WILL work. You can trust your government on that!
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