Comment by Dig1t

18 days ago

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.

3 comments

Dig1t

dangero 18 days ago

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

spiderfarmer 14 days ago
Well, where are your facts? Did you contact them to find out what they can and cannot do?
The conspiracy theories often imagine cloud seeding as some weather control superweapon that can create catastrophic floods or droughts. In reality, you're just giving water droplets or ice crystals something to condense around (usually silver iodide particles). You're working with what nature has already provided and you can't conjure storms from nothing or dramatically amplify them.
But hey, maybe it's better limit your knowledge about a subject to just its name. It enables you to be afraid of things you don't understand. Some people crave that feeling.
- dangero 4 days ago
  
  There is tons of public information online about it. This is a strange approach to claim that the only way to know about a topic is to become an investigative journalist making phone calls to research groups.
  Most of the usable water supply annually in CA comes from the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
  This is also where the largest cloud seeding operations are.
  People who claim cloud seeding ops only make a small impact on the usable water supply don’t understand that a small percentage shift in snowpack makes a difference between a drought and not a drought.
  What I’m saying is that estimations of total cloud seeding water impact do align with the numbers needed to take the state out of a drought.
  As I linked elsewhere there have been lawsuits in the past over cloud seeding causing floods.