Does cloud seeding really work?

As temperatures rise, cloud seeding is bound to become a popular solution against droughts, floods, and fires. Do we really have the technology to make it rain? And if so, should we use it?

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[ratfacekick]

seeding in the tahoe basin in 1984 caused massive toxic algae blooms in te lake and an outbreak of what was coined as chonic fatigue syndrome, and illness ive suffered for 15 years. This is no joke

[sachin]

"We have the question to influence the weather, but do we have wisdom?"👏👏

[TeamYELLOW]

Holy cow, that snippet at the end about Cloud Seeding used during the Vietnam War was so interesting…

[stassimarlowe]

Just because you can doesnt mean that you should.

[Trendigthings]

This is pure gold from DW.
Thanks for being there for us.

[CRSWIJK]

I just to tell this when i was younger, people called me a "Conspiracy Theorist" btw this exists since the 60s/70s

[aditirajagopal]

Chris you have such a unique and beautiful way to tell stories. Love it!

[reforestfertility]

But isn't it forests, specifically forested slopes, with a forested lead up, preferably, which forms rainclouds by the transpiration vapour piling up over the slope and dumping back down as rain, natural rain? I think that's called hydrology, isn't it? Either way, please reforest cuz forests stabilize climate and what we face is climate chaos, not mere warming. Evidence of this we can finally feel as clearcut logging has caused this wrecking ball swing of droughts & floods.

[Steve-boht]

That heavy rainfall at Cop26 in Glasgow can't be just by accident

[subhammurmu]

Got this as advertisement in a dw documetary
Couldn't strop myself from watching the whole ad

[treyshawnee]

DW, thank you for the continual information. Awesome channel!

[zamzari]

The first time I knew about cloud seeding when I was reading comic strips "Annie the Orphan" in 1978 when Annie's uncle get ready to put some salt on his plane and ready to chase the cloud for cloud seeding.

[Happypucks]

This is going to f something up real bad one day watch

[matijabauer]

We are doing everything but planting trees to make natural evaporation and rain... We have the way, but we want to cloud seed....

[gardening]

It’s the video i searching for and the video uploaded only 1 hour ago

[gaiamagna]

In Thailand they have been making artificial rain for decades.

[umani]

Thanks for this video. Love from Tamilnadu, India.

[alicemills]

Does it have a smell when it is put out? If it does what does it smell like?

[cynthiaking]

I am so grateful, this explains a lot.

[fdocument]

I want to ask a serious and intelligent question if the censors can allow it. Is it possible that as the world begins new technologies to track climate change - that cloud seeding could effect the results? I see many weather posts in the UK stating the weather is getting worse. Could it be possible cloud seeding is being used to weaponize the climate - or to enact laws. Cloud seeding should have to be stated when it is taking place in order to stop these issues.