Comments by "Michael Deierhoi" (@michaeldeierhoi4096) on "China fires rain-generating chemicals into clouds as severe drought wreaks havoc" video.

  1. The more relevant perspective on cloud seeding is that it is only marginally effective. Under the best of circumstances cloud seeding might add 10% in precipitation. But in a region as dry as much of China is now 10% is not much. After all this drought has going on for several weeks and I don't see any change in the drought because of cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is a waste of time and could have unintended consequences. Edited my comment to say drought "has been going on" instead of "has gone for".
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  2. Yeah, don't get carried away by any claims that cloud seeding will make much of a difference. Cloud seeding is an over sold and under performed technology that never got off the ground.
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  3. Cloud seeding is a pie in the sky technology. Over sold and under performing.
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  4. @G.D The media plugs climate change so much because they are finally get that we are facing a rapidly developing catastrophe. Of course the media gets it wrong when they attribute every flood, heat wave and drought to climate change. However, the nuance that they often miss to the weather we are seeing IS that it is very much more intense and more frequent then in the past. And that increase in intensity and frequency of these extreme weather is pretty much what climate scientists predicted would happen with our warming climate. Some of this extreme weather is even more extreme then what was predicted.
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  5.  @rugrat2505  It fits his narratives of geoengineering. If it rained hard in Texas it must be because of cloud seeding. It's a circular argument that goes nowhere.
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  6. 😅😂🤣. Cloud seeding is a desperate attempt to improve precipitation. Under ideal circumstances it still adds 10% precipitation to a region. There are also reports of some unintended consequences that are not helpful.
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  7. The benefit of cloud seeding is consistently exaggerated by its proponents. The reality is that cloud seeding provides only a 10% increase in precipitation in the best of circumstances. Most of the time it has little to no effect. Without adequate cloud cover and high humidity cloud seeding doesn't have a chance of helping increase precipitation.
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