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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@jdotseven
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
We’re not terraforming- tell that to the Texans that just got obliterated.
@anjabarker
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
this hasnt ever been proven safe for the environment
@RicGates-wraithven
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
This is not a good idea at all. Stop it! We should be learning to work with Nature,, not trying to control her.
@Twrecksthemdrums25
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
How do we make it stop?!
@Nora-vq7ug
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Scientists and engineers are probably the most dangerous people on planet earth
@Kayla9223Marie
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
How cool would it be to be able to water our grass with filtered water down the drain, home water filtration systems
@IsaacConejo
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Well this was a pointless video.
@lovelife8128
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
These LA wildfires need rain. If we can control or predict weather calamity… wouldn't that be better than building $billion dollar rockets for fun? Just saying.
@badukwame
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
It can be used to starve others as a war strategy, if it's not currently in use.
@martinbevk1695
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Super cute…Frau Friedrich 🥰
@letzte_maahsname
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
This comment section is the most cancerous I've seen for a long time. Seems like everyone is a geoscientist now.
@dougdiagdome6855
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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.
@Elizabeth-mp6tr
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Putting silver oxide into the atmosphere, then what? Another problem to humans??? STOP! Stop using fossil fuels that cause all these climate problems. Enough!
@maxdecleyn
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
"climate change" 😱
"weather modification" 😎
🤯
@christinayoung5339
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Ohhh.. If i knew how to post my pictures right here, right now 🫣🤫🫢
@holleyosteen6521
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
I wish the government would stop trying to play God.. this is ridiculous
@sherriestes-erwin1908
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
If this works….why is most of America in a drought???
@ericdouglasalexander
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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?
@jadams736
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Yeah I bout got killed because of government cloud seeding blizzard
@yeseniarodriguez2342
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Now make it snow in Antarctica recovery the snow ❄
@maxd3028
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Praise the Lord H.A.A.R.P ✌
@BaltimoresBerzerker
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Can someone stop the tornadoes? 😮
@truthjabber5256
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
You are so beyond knowing what is going on that even I cannot help you. I feel sorry for you because you have so much to learn in so little time . . . but I will try. Look into solar radiation management and stratospheric aerosol injection systems . . . aka chemtrails Dane Wiggi ton is a fairly good place to start . . .
@greatestone4eva
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
western scientists are the most ignorant and are confident about it, hence why AI mimics them so well. Fix the ecosystem you broke and stole from the native people.
@stormrunner0029
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Yesterday a butterfly flapped its wings in Japan.
There will be a Hurricane this Fall.
@walterulasinksi7031
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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.
@NonBinary_Star
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
This has future disaster written all over it..
@brassen
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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?
@clipsfromcherie
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
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.
@Winter-CIG
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
This will be nuclear power all over again. People will complain out of conspiracy theory driven paranoia. We HAVE to find ways to mitigate the effects of global warming because it's coming much faster than we ever anticipated. Just take a look at Greenland over the last year. It isn't good. We not only impact the weather already in a million different ways (mass deforestation for one) we are practically teraforming our planet through industry. Seeding clouds is the least of our worries.
@micheljgaudet1951
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
The REAL definition of this?
MAN, YET AGAIN, SCREWING WITH NATURE!
We humans are continually trying to kill our planet. STUPID HUMANS!
@firehorse2019
September 7, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Years ago everyone thought that cigarette smoking was safe. Never trust "professionals" that say that something is safe or within acceptable levels. 👎🏾
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