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.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
"Feds Say the Technology They Use to Control the Weather Doesn’t Work"
If feds are claiming problems with controlling the weather, then it's reasonable to question claims about politically correct global warming too imo.
“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?”
Because the USA is a huge country. It also has a large population.
Australia is also huge. It also uses huge, tall, high-powered transmitters.
Canada also uses huge,tall, high-powered Cell towers
So does Indonesia.
So does Russia.
Your assumption does not appear to hold for large countries.
Bad news for Karl Rove
Obama: Elect me and I'll cause the sea levels to stop rising!
Future Dims: Sacrifice your babies to me and I'll make it rain!
That's intuitively how it would seem to be, but with all the large bodies of water on the Earth...
Climate Global Control Trading LLC UAE (CGCT) is dedicated to providing weather modification services around the world...
https://weathermodificationhistory.com/climate-global-control-trading-llc-steering-hurricanes-ionospheric-technology/(October 2021)
Climate Global Control Trading, LLC Steers Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa
In agreement of our company and Abu Dhabi, was a task to deposit precipitation in the territory of the UAE in the period of end of May to July of 2015.
Before the start of the work, our company prepared several documents about our steps of solving the task, which we were following during the demonstration work. For example, through our work was formed a cyclone ASHOOBA, which was transferred from the Indian ocean to the coast of Oman, and which brought a huge amount of precipitation to the territory of Gulf and UAE in particular. Through our work temperature in the region was decreased significantly, was increased humidity and other climate conditions became much comfortable. The effect was saved till several weeks, but every day after the end of our work was getting less and less. Many of independent sources, such as NOAA, PMD and others, confirmed the significant increase of precipitation (up to 800% of normal) in the desired area.
They use arrays of ionospheric heaters.
There's even a digital currency, Climate CRON - related to "climate and water security."
“Don’t blame us for devastating North Carolina to get at the valuable minerals under the ground and redistribute the rights to Democrat donors!”
“Feds say . . .” so should we believe it? It may be true but one cannot know that from something a government person says.
Yes, indeed!
See post 11—.gov used the technology during the Vietnam War.
While they had challenges with the program it sounds like they believed it had significant utility.
It may be that the Southeast Asia tropical climate is a better environment for the tech—but current claims it is ineffective are very hard to swallow.
“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?”
Small, low powered transmitters are short range. Typically less than 500 feet.
So much for your conspiracy.
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