Comment by dangero
8 hours ago
It’s important to note that rainfall in CA is not 100% natural. The state actively funds cloud seeding.
https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/gfo-23-311-advancing-precip...
Example of a recent $2.5M grant.
This information is often buried in budgets under applied research grants. I suspect they obscure this information because it could create liabilities, for example, if gov funded rain seeding creates flooding and human death are they partially responsible for this?
From the link alone, it looks like the state actively funds cloud seeding research, not active practical cloud seeding?
Applied research is active cloud seeding
Santa Clara County had an active cloud-seeding program from 1954 through 1994.[1] Santa Clara County used to be a major agricultural area. The goal is not to create rain, but to move it. Get the clouds to dump over the agricultural areas instead of the inland mountains. It worked, a little. But there was a concern that it was making wildfires worse, by doing what it was intended to do and thus making the inland forests more dry.
[1] https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1...
To my point, liability concerns are listed on that pdf as a reason why Santa Clara County stopped.
Cloud seeding can definitely increase rain over California even by your logic. Clouds don't respect state boundaries.
This doesn’t seem important to note at all.
It can affect current rainfall numbers, future rainfall, and future projections
That's a grant, to research them, which is important. There are programs that are shut down, since they learned from them: https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-cloud-seeding/
Applied research is active cloud seeding
That’s silly. If you know about it, so do the lawyers who would come out of the woodwork to take these cases.
Here’s a research report relating to weather modification. It references even a prior California case where a flood happened in an area utilizing cloud seeding.
https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
If you’re truly interested in the subject, contact the organizations actually doing research in the subject. Leave your tinfoil hat at home.
There are companies that do cloud seeding:
https://www.rainmaker.com/
>Though cloud seeding has been in use around the world for 80 years, we recognize that people have valid questions about how the technology works.
Nothing tinfoil about it.
Thank you. Every time I talk about cloud seeding in CA people have a strongly negative response without any facts and I'm not really sure why