Cloud seeding grows in US West

(19 Apr 2023)
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Lyons, Colorado – 3 December 2022
1. Various of workers installing cloud seeding equipment

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Longmont, Colorado – 6 April 2023
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Griebling, Engineer, St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District:
"One of the main reasons that we're doing cloud seeding is we've really determined that it's a safe and effective way to increase the amount of water that's available. It's not a silver bullet. You can't cloud seed if there aren't winter storms that aren’t coming through. So if it's really, really dry, you're not going to get more water from the non-existent storms essentially."

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Lyons, Colorado – 16 March 2023
4. Wide of cloud seeding generator working during a storm
5. Detail of cloud seeding generator with flame coming out of it during a storm

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Boulder, Colorado – 17 March 2023
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Tessendorf, scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research:
"Cloud seeding is a process that injects silver iodide particles into clouds that are not producing ice very well on their own. We can insert the silver iodide through aircraft flying in the clouds or from ground-based generators that release the smoke plume that flows up into the clouds over the mountains. And once the silver iodide gets into the cloud, it forms ice. And then that ice can readily grow into snow that falls to the ground."

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7. Animation showing how cloud seeding works

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Longmont, Colorado – 6 April 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Griebling, Engineer, St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District:
"Colorado has a long history of cloud seeding. It's been operating programs for the last 50 years. All of those programs have been on the west part of the state. And this program is the first on the east part of the state.”
9. Medium of industrial facility with snow-capped mountains in background
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Griebling, Engineer, St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District:
“It's reflective of a need to find water kind of wherever you can.”
11. Medium of prairie dog poking out of its burrow

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ARCHIVE: Page, Arizona – 8 June 2022
12. Various of Glen Canyon Dam

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Longmont, Colorado – 6 April 2023
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Griebling, Engineer, St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District:
“A lot of the low hanging fruit of the big dams of the past and other easy sources of water have all been fully developed. There's a need for conservation and there's also a need for other approaches, other alternatives to water supply.”

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Lyons, Colorado – 16 March 2023
14. Timelapse of storm passing over cloud seeding generator

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Boulder, Colorado – 17 March 2023
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Tessendorf, scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research:
"From our research, we know that cloud seeding, the conceptual model works. It produces ice that grows into snow. We also know that it does not work in every cloud equally.”
16. Tessendorf working on computer
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Tessendorf, scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research:
"But with the new computer modeling that we're doing, we can now simulate a seeded cloud and an unseeded cloud and look at the differences.”
18. Detail of computer model
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[linnieburwell]

Control of weather means control of crops. Effectively controlling food supply!

[calvada-bdno]

Is cloud seeding causing extreme weather events?

[AZMYTHKAMINSKI]

Oh when we look back at this how so many will realize they were on the wrong side of history with these arrogant decisions

[lalasworld]

Stop tryna play GOD...Cant wait until wickedness pays

[Ariadoesyoga]

yes a weather modification weapon without our consent. Sure block my sun every day I dont need the sun, nothing can go wrong. So in 20 years from now when the sun is blocked out it will be for our safety lol. being alive is one big clown show. Everywhere you look it gets more and more cringy.

[ScotOsageRez]

The US government has been doing this for over 60 years.

[ScotOsageRez]

Ignorant fools that Trust the Governor...😅😂

[jjjamell]

Caucasians needs cold 🥶 weather to survive 😂😂😂