No, and explanations on how it could work are implausible.

It works to e.g. prompt hail to fall outside of cities rather than directly onto cities.

the U.S did experiments in Vietnam that were fairly promising back in the 70s

Sure. Ski resorts in Utah do it all the time to make it snow.

Apparently there are companies trying similar things in the US - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/11/13/cloud-seedin...

First I'd heard of it... though Salt Lake City did just have its rainiest October on record.

The UAE has partnered with the US and NASA on cloud seeding research, and the US has been doing it for decades

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/18/united-arab-emirates-is-usin...

It can make existing moisture in the air fall as rain where you want it to. Like over a water reservoir.

But it obviously can't create more moisture than already is in the air.

I assume marketing. I’m wondering what will happen when they force the afghan refugees back over the border into Afghanistan since they don’t have the water to give them.

Climate change and bad decisions from the last 50 years are starting to bite now. It’ll just get worse. Expect migrations and countries collapsing as millions of people are pushed to migrate for survival.

Cloud seeding is real, buf unpredictable. Youre trying to get moisture to coalesce around the "seed" then fall where you want it.

The dubious part is the coditions to rain are chaotic patameters and unpredictable.

One of Iran's biggest problems is that Iran, for no good reason other than the benefit of some big corporations (kinda similar to the California situation) is one of the biggest produce and dry fruit exporter in the world, and that one thing the government would need to do is shut down that excess capacity. A thing very few countries would do because it would punish some oligarch for the benefit of the whole of society.

>>> How should we think about cloud seeding?

It's a way to take someone else's rain.

Weather modification has been a well understood, but not particularly effective program that has been run in various places across the US for decades. The main difference with chemtrails is that those are a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories that assume that the government is trying to do widespread mind control. Weather modification is just trying to get it rain to rain a tiny bit more, with limited success.

https://library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/weather-modificatio...

> These miserable [A] and their idiot low iq followers have destroyed [B].

Careful with this statement, it might generalize more than you think over the next few years.

Iran is the "principal-agent" problem embodied.

The governing mullahs' interests are brutally divergent from those of the people in whose name they pretend to govern.

Hence, the nuclear weapons program and all the cozying up to Russia.

It was not reservoirs but lack of rain that led to their problems. Now if only you had reduced your emissions they would not have this problem. I’m glad you care for them so much

They're building nukes? Awesome, looks like you have more information than the IAEA. Unless of course you're talking about the same Ayatollah bomb that Iran almost has since 1984[1].

The drones are produced by Russia btw. You know, kinda how you guys keep saying that you'll punish China for supplying components for them. Meanwhile every single drone that Ukraine uses is built with either Chinese components or is a modded Chinese drone to begin with.

[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/24/Ayatollah-bomb-in-pr...

Texas is either desert or desert adjacent. We have always gotten our water by having torrential rains inconsistently.

This doesn't mean don't conserve, be intelligent, etc.

But this does mean that your water won't "balance out" year to year, you need to look at big 25-30 year intervals.

Right now the single biggest waste of water in Austin is leaky pipes. Like infrastructure pipes owned by the city. Meanwhile our water conservation budget is going to billboards telling people to rush in the shower. The entire population could stop bathing and not reduce enough to make up for the leaks happening in the crumbling water infra.

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