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Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/cloud-seeding-dubai-floods
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Highways turned to rivers as drivers abandoned stuck vehicles, homes and businesses have been damaged, and flights at one of the world’s busiest airports have been significantly disrupted.
Twenty people have reportedly been killed, and the recovery is expected to be slow: in a place known for its dry desert climate and hot temperatures where rain is rare, many areas lack drainage.
The Desert Research Institute (DRI), a non-profit in Nevada, uses silver iodide, a compound that their scientists say exists naturally in the environment and isn’t harmful, which is burned or dropped with aircraft to reach the clouds.
The UAE, which started its cloud-seeding program back in the 1990s, uses a kilogram of salt material components, CNBC reported, which is burned and shot into clouds from specially equipped aircraft.
This is because convection, which is the strong updraft in thunderstorms, strengthens in a warmer world,” Dim Coumou, a professor in climate extremes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, told Reuters.
The DRI reports a 10% bump or more per year in snowpack where cloud seeding has been conducted, and cites another study done in the Snowy mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that resulted in a 14% snowfall increase.
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