Posted on 04/19/2024 7:26:56 AM PDT by Twotone
The United Arab Emirates and neighboring states were rocked this week by the heaviest rains on record, which resulted in devastating floods, dozens of deaths, significant damage, and diverted flights.
A government meteorologist indicated early on that the UAE's well-known geoengineering efforts were at least partly to blame. However, now that there is a body count, the government task force responsible for cloud-seeding missions in the region is attempting to deny responsibility.
Liberal media outlets such as the Guardian and Wired and so-called experts have dutifully accepted these denials, insinuating that climate change or other factors may instead be responsible. When it rains, the NCM makes it pour
Cloud seeding is the controversial weather modification technique whereby aircraft, rockets, cannons, or ground generators release various chemicals and tiny particles, such as potassium chloride, into clouds in an effort to artificially increase precipitation.
Professor Ari Laaksonen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute indicated that there are two principal cloud-seeding techniques. Hygrocopic cloud seeding serves to speed up droplet coalescence in liquid clouds, "leading to production of large droplets that start to precipitate." The other technique, called glaciogenic cloud seeding, serves to "trigger ice production in supercooled clouds, leading to precipitation."
Cloud seeding not only works but has reportedly helped increase Utah's water supply by an estimated 12% in 2018.
The UAE has been conducting cloud-seeding missions for decades.
According to the Khaleej Times of Dubai, the UAE has ramped up its efforts under the UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement, managed by the Gulf state's National Center of Meteorology. This particular scheme was kicked off by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs of the UAE.
Alya Almazroui, director of the initiative, told the Khaleej Times in September, "By experimenting with various seeding approaches, we anticipate that these campaigns could lead to a more effective cloud-seeding approach and, consequently, increased rainfall in the targeted areas."
On average, the NCM reportedly conducts more than 1,000 hours of cloud-seeding missions every year, using aircraft equipped with hygroscopic flares full of nucleating agents.
It appears as though the NCM may have succeeded in its efforts at the expense of numerous lives. Disaster and denial
ABC News Australia reported that a year's worth of rain descended on the UAE Tuesday, paralyzing Dubai and effectively closing the Dubai International Airport — the world's busiest hub for international air travel.
Extra to prompting hundreds of flights to divert course, rains fed destructive floods across the Emirates and Bahrain, killing at least 20 in Oman and one person in the UAE. Underground parking lots were flooded and metro operations were shuttered. Power was also knocked off in certain areas.
Dubai's media office acknowledged Tuesday that the downpour the UAE experienced this week was the heaviest it has experienced in 75 years.
Dr. Ahmed Habib, a meteorological specialist with the Gulf state's National Center of Meteorology, told Bloomberg that the NCM dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to "take advantage of convective cloud formations."
Bloomberg indicated that NCM flew several cloud-seeding flights prior to the downpour. The Associated Press also indicated at least one aircraft associated with the cloud-seeding initiative flew around the country on Monday.
The NCM claimed on Wednesday it had instead seeded the sky on Sunday and Monday. State media did not acknowledge earlier flights.
Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director of the NCM, later told CNBC that the agency "did not conduct any seeding operations during this event."
Habib also later changed his tune, suggesting that the six cloud-seeding flights he had previously told the press about had indeed flown missions but had not seeded any clouds.
Various so-called experts have apparently taken the NCM at its word and seized on the opportunity to instead blame climate change.
Daniel Swain, a "climate scientist" at the University of California, Los Angeles, tweeted, "Did cloud seeding play a role? (Spoiler: likely no!) But how about #ClimateChange? (Another spoiler: likely yes!)."
"When we talk about heavy rainfall, we need to talk about climate change. Focusing on cloud seeding is misleading," Friederike Otto, a supposed global warming specialist at the Imperial College of London, told the Associated Press. "Rainfall is becoming much heavier around the world as the climate warms because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture."
"Rainfall from thunderstorms, like the ones seen in UAE in recent days, sees a particular strong increase with warming. This is because convection, which is the strong updraft in thunderstorms, strengthens in a warmer world," Dim Coumou of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told Reuters.
Maarten Ambau, an atmospheric physics professor at the University of Reading, told the Guardian that "cloud seeding, certainly in the Emirates, is used for clouds that don't normally produce rain. ... You would not normally develop a very severe storm out of that."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/heavy-rains-lash-uae-flood-dubai-disrupt-dxb-flights/103733378
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Next up, aerosols to prevent global warming will bring Dubai four feet of snow.
Having grown up in the desert and living in a desert now I can tell you that the many of the citizens of Oman are enjoying the weather. I bet a lot of them even just stood out in the rain to enjoy it.
And this is what the powers at be want done here? No thanks!
Do downpours rock now? Thought only earthquakes and bombs did that.
Serves them right for sheltering Hamas leaders in great luxury...
Evil white Europeans created this sorcery.
The video on NEWSMAX last night, was amazing.
Yah...but while it’s pouring it’s also 105 degrees. Talk about a steam bath!
What’s really misleading... is the misdirection away from the other geoengineering activities they’re conducting and have been for years (or decades?)... re: the damage being done to the environment. And of course.... they then point to “climate change” as the culprit for those man-made weather disasters. All so very convenient for the globalists who want most of us dead.
The depth of depravity is unfathomable if they caused these floods, then turn around and try to blame climate change! Only a sick evil soul could so shamelessly blame something else for something that they caused!
Meanwhile, a Newsmax segment had experts on discussing co2 levels and the asinine claim that we are at a tipping point at just 450 ppm. A fella pointed out that 800,000 years ago, co2 was 3000 ppm and life thrived just fine- the wo4ld didn’t erupt into flames, species didn’t die by the bullions,from heat exhaustion etc.
Then abput 80,000 years ago the level was 150 ppm, and ice covered places like Kansas with mile high ice fields
I’ll see if I can find the segment
Hmmmm, the left are,desperate to,show that “storms are more frequent and more violent than ever before because of climate change”, and I wouldn’t put it past the demon driven liars seed clouds, cause disasters all over the world, then blame it on “man-caused” climate change
A year of rain in one day. Who says these climate and atmospheric scientists don’t know what they are doing? Who says there can be unintended consequences?
Vengeance is not the only thing that belongs to God.
Its not nice to fool Mother Nature. 😏
I’ll bet that their “climate models” didn’t predict a year’s worth of rain in one day- but somehow,we are supposed to beleieve that their climate models can predict the weather and climate 100 years from now
I don’t know whether this cloud seeding is to blame but we’re in a three year level 2 drought.
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