How the West Is Making It Rain, With Science

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A method of boosting snow and rainfall may help ease drought conditions in the western US.
Cloud seeding techniques boost clouds’ ability to drop precipitation by releasing particles that attract water, making it easier for water droplets or snowflakes to form.
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@SofaKingShit Жыл бұрын

What could possibly go wrong? Interfering with complex systems that we don't fully understand always goes really, really well.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's just some transient clouds. Cloud seeding really doesn't have the capacity to do irreparable harm. Ironically, fear of it is likely more harmful.

@Winter-CIG Жыл бұрын

That YOU don't understand you mean?

@southernflatland Жыл бұрын

@@Laff700 Info from around the 70s and 80s suggest they made hurricanes such as Camille and Frederick worse than they would have been by secretly experimenting with cloud seeding. They supposedly wanted them to rain out before hitting land, but ended up making them much worse once they hit land. So if they're so damn smart these days, where was all this magical rainfall when the US West Coast was burning down last year? Oh yeah, that's right, it was all delayed until the recent massive floods... How about we like try *not* screwing with mother nature so much?..

@Myn6211 Жыл бұрын

Well isn't this just brilliant. Silver iodide is known to be toxic and is regulated under the Clean Waters Act as a hazard substance. If there is bioaccumulation from overuse or repeated exposure in an area, you may get your rain but you'll most likely lose the aquatic life in your ponds, streams, lakes etc. Hmm! What may seem a simple solution to a serious concern may end up having far greater consequences for many species down the road.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

There's other options which could be used. The seeding material only needs to be able to serve as a nucleation point for water condensation, and there's a long list of candidates. Also, I think they don't really need to use much to seed clouds.

@ACSReactions Жыл бұрын

Reactions sent me. Great video, by the way, and thanks for the shoutout!

@Vector_Ze Жыл бұрын

I wonder, is it possible that getting more precipitation where you are than you would otherwise receive, might deprive those downwind of your location of rain/snow they would've otherwise gotten.

@clipsfromcherie Жыл бұрын

Idaho took Washington State all the way to the supreme court back in the 1970's claiming WA cloud seeding in the Cascade mountains was causing draught in Idaho. They dropped the case when WA Governor Dixy Lee Ray talked Idaho into joining the seeding program. Right now India is protesting China seeding over 5.5 million sq kilometers, an area 1.5 times size of India, claiming they are stealing rain that would have been snow pack in the Himalayan mountains causing draught in India.

@netgnostic1627 Жыл бұрын

It's very much like areas that drain a river completely by pumping out the water for irrigation, leaving none for people downstream.

@ParallaxView111 3 ай бұрын

@@clipsfromcheriethere's some man made climate change. Potassium iodide is rather poisonous. Look at the warnings on the drugs site. I wonder if silver iodide is better. We are inhaling it.

@longcastle4863 Жыл бұрын

Even if it works what are the places that might suffer because it does. Like funneling water off upstream so nobody in the lower lands gets to partake. Probably they've thought it all through though, right?

@firehorse2008 Жыл бұрын

Years ago everyone thought that cigarette smoking was safe. Never trust "professionals" that say that something is safe or within acceptable levels. 👎🏾

@mascadadelpantion8018 Жыл бұрын

So much beauty and magic from just a tiny little trailer

@ericdouglasalexander 8 ай бұрын

I just wonder how much energy goes into producing the silver iodine solution. How is it produced? Is it worth it in the long term to change the weather temporarily if there are carbon emissions involved in the process producing the silver iodine solution?

@walterulasinksi7031 Жыл бұрын

The 2023 Atmospheric river was caused by theVEI 7+ volcanic eruption in Tonga. This cooled the ElNono in the Pacific and directed the wind patterns to the Bering Sea where it impacted the northern Jet Stream. Causing excessive rains and snow in the West and pushing yhe Jet Stream to the east causing wild winter weather across the country.

@Tis_I_SirJames Жыл бұрын

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the massive snowstorms and flooding on the West Coast or the countless tornadoes in the southern US. But it sure seems like these guys are getting off playing God with our weather. Coincidence?

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

It's more likely to be related to humans playing god with the environment by pumping loads of CO₂ into the atmosphere, causing the Earth's climate to change.

@clipsfromcherie Жыл бұрын

It warms the planet by dropping clouds.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

@@clipsfromcherie Yeah, I think I might've gotten this somewhat mixed up with cloud brightening...

@benjamindover4337 Жыл бұрын

Ten years ago: "That's a conspiracy theory"

@robadkerson Жыл бұрын

Real Story: 10 years ago: "That's upcoming technology, but is not being used to secretly control the masses, that's a conspiracy theory."

@brianc5581 Жыл бұрын

@@robadkerson Nonsense, they said it's a conspiracy theory. Not "upcoming technology"

@robadkerson Жыл бұрын

@@brianc5581 No, that's just what the people on that garbage History channel show you watched told you they said.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

Weird that they'd think cloudseeding was a conspiracy, whoever they were.

@benjamindover4337 Жыл бұрын

@@Laff700 there was a major effort to convince people it was not being done for decades

@jeffreybaughman2049 Жыл бұрын

"Reactions" sent me...

@brassen Жыл бұрын

The channel Reactions sent me here. Great video! Just been reading about the effect of the Sahara desert dust affecting the rainfall in Amazônia, is that some sort of cloud seeding somehow?

@yeseniarodriguez2342 Жыл бұрын

Now make it snow in Antarctica recovery the snow ❄

@genelang9629 Жыл бұрын

Cloud seedling may work when there are clouds to seed but during droughts, the Limiting factor is the lack of Enough or Abundance of water vapor to form clouds, and mechanics of cloud dynamics that form the Cumulonimbus thunderstorms which results in Precipitation as Snow or Rain.

@AwfullWaffle Жыл бұрын

“We are not putting nano particles into the atmosphere” also “watch us put nano particles in the atmosphere” the gaslighting is phenomenal

@Name.......... Жыл бұрын

This isn't new and no one said cloud seeding wasn't a thing, they just aren't doing it with the intention to harm people.

@humanlifeforce Жыл бұрын

Back in the 50's-60s... through the 1970s... cloud seeding was being used for a variety of reasons... then literally it all just stopped, the seeding of clouds came to a grinding haul. Why? Him? I always belie, that 'We Should Not Mess With Mother Nature'!!

@86GT11 Жыл бұрын

Weather is a product of temperature trying to balance itself throughout the whole Earth. Manipulating weather in one part of the Earth effects weather in other parts of the Earth. It would be a shame if in the long run cloud seeding would cause drought to existing rain forests.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

Well the rainforests in South America are sort of surrounded by oceans which would replenish any water vapor lost from cloud seeding in other parts of the world. So that fear's kind of unfounded. Also, even if it somehow actually managed to occur, we could fix the issue basically immediately by not cloud seeding to close to said rainforests.

@86GT11 Жыл бұрын

@@Laff700 on a global scale, cloud seeding in one part of the world effects all parts of the world.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

@@86GT11 I mean, yeah, of course it does. They're in each other's light cones and in the same chaotic system. It's like how the flapping of a butterfly's wings could eventually create a hurricane. I myself don't think the effect will be too severe and drastic though.

@dougdiagdome6855 2 ай бұрын

I frickin knew it! I reside in colorado and two days ago... Three feet of snow. Today, its 65 degrees? Ya. Something IS NOT RIGHT. Because of this, Ohio's cataclysmic weather change two days ago can also thank them. WE ARE SCREWED.

@sherriestes-erwin1908 5 ай бұрын

If this works....why is most of America in a drought???

@verycaring2387 Жыл бұрын

There is the concern... Everything we do now, will have an effect on Nature, mostly profound, years from now and their pockets full.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

Cloud seeding's effects should be pretty transient, so this one thing humanity's doing to the world shouldn't be able to have much in terms of long-lasting negative impacts. The reflected light from the excess clouds should also help fight climate change.

@C-M-E Жыл бұрын

I don't recall exactly what year, but during the 60s this was attempted via planeload by dropping silver-coated granules directly into cloud systems with a ~30% success rate. I would imagine in a dustbowl situation, the chance might outweigh the cost ratio even though you couldn't control exactly where it was going to rain. Now that we have so much more technology that measures storm data and predictability models, surely there's a cheaper solution (at altitude, one would assume any particle with appreciable weight will contribute much like seeding a clam).

@truthjabber5256 Жыл бұрын

Do you not notice the daily chemtrails?

@bazpearce9993 Жыл бұрын

One thing for sure. No need for cloud seeding here in England.

@1969kodiakbear Жыл бұрын

Colorado. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

@rlevitta Жыл бұрын

So...is this what has caused record rain and snowfall this year?

@stormrunner0029 Жыл бұрын

Yesterday a butterfly flapped its wings in Japan. There will be a Hurricane this Fall.

@Scraggledust Жыл бұрын

Where I live, El Niño will either bring lots of rain, or none at all. Right on the edge of either happening. It’d take ten years of rain, for us to get to where water restrictions will be lifted. . . Hope for food to feed the world. Hope for rain to feed the world

@derek8482 Жыл бұрын

Reactions sent me!

@sleepingninjaquiettime Жыл бұрын

Yes, cloud seeding is safe and won't effect neighboring eco systems even though they haven't done any in depth studies.

@clipsfromcherie Жыл бұрын

Clouds filter sun. Dropping them warms the earth.

@dansweda712 Жыл бұрын

I know it might sound strange, but I wish it would rain

@BaltimoresBerzerker Жыл бұрын

Geoengineering is the proper term for this and it's obviously a dangerous game being played without knowledge of the future impacts or care for it's potential weaponization. The ego of man is terrifying, that anyone thinks they're trustworthy with this power is inconceivable to me.

@honeybee588 Жыл бұрын

Can someone stop the tornadoes? 😮

@homewall744 Жыл бұрын

So is this why they are now flooded and covered in huge hills of snow?

@boldjawad Жыл бұрын

Reactions sent me here

@TimeTheory2099 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nova. 👍 I would like to see a video on clear domed city's. Is it econamocaly possible with today's technology?

@clipsfromcherie Жыл бұрын

Clouds help keep earth cool by blocking sunshine from the earth surface. Dropping clouds warms the earth. They've been doing it 70 years, China seeds area bigger than India, and more than 58 countries are dropping clouds. Climate change is partially caused my manmade weather modification but that's never discussed. Thanks for making this video. China is using drones with lasers and Boeing made a ray gun to seed clouds instead of using chemicals. It would be a good subject for another video.

@maxd3028 Жыл бұрын

Praise the Lord H.A.A.R.P ✌

@tofinh Жыл бұрын

Reducing cloud cover will reduce albedo, which might contribute to Climate Change.

@Laff700 Жыл бұрын

Maybe we could make up for it by doing cloud brightening over the Arctic ocean near the Summer Solstice.

@unpopuIaropinion Жыл бұрын

So the west is making it rain. What else is the west ''making it'' do ? Hot ? Cold ? Who knows....

@Jamesgregorykulp1985 Жыл бұрын

We should not be playing mother nature. We should let weather happen naturally. Even if global warming is real. I think that we should let weather happen naturally. Even if people and the earth suffer.

@BlackCeII Жыл бұрын

It is real, and it's not happening naturally. Let the adults talk about this one. Stick to your Lego.

@Jamesgregorykulp1985 Жыл бұрын

@@BlackCeII global warming is fake and a hoax. It is about government control. I am conservative right winger. And I support Donald Trump. And I support the 2nd amendment.

@BlackCeII Жыл бұрын

@@Jamesgregorykulp1985 reality doesn't care about your uneducated, uninformed, ignorant thoughts. Be quiet, the adults are speaking.

@brianc5581 Жыл бұрын

@@BlackCeII Haha kid.. You're so cool online aren't ya? Wanna bet you wouldn't dare to talk like this in real life? It's you who is uninformed.. the climate been changing for billions of years.. And perhaps if "scientists" would stop f-in with the weather, we wouldn't have an increase in "extreme weather" You honestly think they can control the ripple effect this has? 🤡

@Winter-CIG Жыл бұрын

Global warming absolutely is real and you can't imagine the horrors it will unleash if we don't start using science to help our species survive it.