How artificial rain works

Global warming is here, and it is wreaking havoc on our planet. As we don’t seem to be curbing our pollution levels fast enough, some engineers have begun to think of other solutions to climate change such as geoengineering.

Geoengineering is a type of advanced environmental engineering that brings together science and technology to try to undo some of the harm we have caused to the planet.

It consists of a variety of techniques from cloud seeding to stratospheric aerosol injection. Geoengineering when put in practice seems straight out of a science fiction movie. But it is indeed happening today.

For instance, the United Arab Emirates is currently using drones to create artificial rain.

Cloud seeding can increase rainfall by 30 to 35 percent in a clear atmosphere. It can also clear fogs to improve visibility and reduce the size of hail and prevent hailstorms.

This may sound like an exciting development but it does come with its fair share of risks. In this video, we explore the advantages and disadvantages of cloud seeding and even look at some instances of cloud seeding gone wrong.

If you are curious about geoengineering in action, then do not miss this video.

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[alpaq]

Moral :grow trees, be patient with nature, never mess with it

[MrSupercar]

“One man’s drought is another man’s rain” - Guy Clark

[justingrabenstein]

I read a book called Category 7 written in 2008. It was about super heating clouds with lasers to make rain. It also spoke of weaponizing weather using the same method. Pretty good book that I thought was far fetched at the time.

[crazygoose]

You'd be surprised how much this stuff is used, and not always for the right reasons

[Ovation]

Man I remember talking about this 10 years ago and everyone thought I was crazy!

[Ddhero]

Inducing rain through cloud seeding has been done for 80 years, since the 1940s. So the technique they're using might be relatively new, but the idea is very old

[TheBurnttea]

The Earth is perfect. When you mess with perfection you make it imperfect

[Interestingengineeringofficial]

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[joeschmoe]

Humanity is like a five-year-old controlling a tank armed with a nuclear weapon.

[vineethkumar]

"....but it was us that scorched the skies"
- Morpheus, The Matrix

[Clawdamage]

Cloud seeding has great benefits but also deadly. The silver iodide they spray into the air to help with it eventually ends up in your soil, water supply and body. It has chances of causing skin, eye, respiratory and digestive irritation and also birth defects if done to much. Which has me ask the question what is our future with this if it’s bound to cause problems with our earth and the living organisms that live here? They have been doing this since the 1940s/50s.

[phillipscott]

This is how they keep england so wet and depressing

[Fomalhaut_Antares]

Remember when Alex Jones said weather manipulation was going on, and they said he was a crazy conspiracy theorist by the same channels, personalities and scientists now casually posting about it?

[RogueParses]

This sounds a lot nicer than "Government controlling the weather" XD

[adcashmo]

I like the casual admission to chemtrails thrown in at the end 😂

[FirstLast-iicp]

In a word, LIABILITY — That’s the only thing that prevented ‘them’ from being up front with us that: A) They’ve been at this for decades, B) They’ve been spraying a whole lot more than salt, C) They did this over our heads (& homes) without asking nor informing us.

I love how they casually dismiss it with a catchy name like “Stratospheric Aerosol Injection” & gloss over the fact that people have long called these “chemtrails” & made to seem like they were crazy, when they pointed out the obvious, taking place before all of our eyes.

[gui-texzan]

"Cloud Seeding" and "Solar Radiation Management" sound so much better than "Chemtrails".

[farwest]

I remember when this was just a crazy conspiracy theory

[nagame]

"Stratospheric Aerosol Injection".
Feels like a sci-fi snow movie!

[niharoad]

There's only one universal way to cool the plant - plant more trees and reduce cutting down of trees along with proper waste disposal and recycling