Thread by @ADoricko

THE CLOUD SEEDING CONSPIRACY THEORY THREAD

What is cloud seeding?

How does it work? Is it safe?

Is it chemtrails? Are chemtrails real?

Here’s the deal folks:
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What is cloud seeding?

Cloud seeding locally and temporarily enhances precipitation

Dispersing certain minerals into clouds with favorable conditions, condenses or freezes small, naturally occurring water droplets into drops or snowflakes big enough to precipitate
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Does it work?

Yeah, was hard to prove for a long time but the SNOWIE project used high resolution radar to measure increased precipitation exclusively in the track of their seeding plane

Each of those lines is millions of gallons of snowmelt!
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Types of cloud seeding: Hygroscopic

This involves dispersing small volumes of minerals (often table salt) into clouds to attract small water droplets into heavier ones

It's often used in hotter regions of the globe (i.e. UAE, Philippines)
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Types of cloud seeding: Glaciogenic

This involves dispersing small volumes (~1kg/100,000km^2) of minerals that freeze small water droplets into snowflakes large enough to fall

Silver Iodide (AgI) has been used for decades and has a crystal structure like ice
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Wait, people have been cloud seeding for decades?

Yes! The technology was invented in the United States in 1946

We used to have large programs, China now spends $100Ms more than us per year (~$300M)

Here's a map of all the active programs in the US and abroad
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Is AgI from cloud seeding safe?

Yup, 78 years of data have shown no impacts on environmental or human health in seeded regions

The US drinking water threshold for safe AgI levels is 100mg/L

To be safe, the most sensitive algae are harmed at 1.4mg/L, so let's go w that
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AgI doesn't bioaccumulate

In an area downstream of a multiyear seeding campaign, the Salt Springs Reservoir in CA, AgI concentrations were measured at <0.0005 µg/L

This is well within naturally occurring levels. Decades of seeding in Nevada has increased concentrations by parts per trillion in soil, and silver is naturally occurring in PPM

so chronic exposure and build up is not a concern
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AgI is also quite safe itself!

I don't endorse eating it ofc

But, if you were to eat AgI, it's 14x less toxic than aspirin (LD50 of 2820mg/kg vs 200mg/kg)

And AgI is insoluble in water and fat, so an adult would need to eat ~0.4lbs in one sitting for a toxic dose
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"You're stealing rain from other people!"

Nope! The body of evidence from decades of American universities is seeding is positive sum

Only ~9% of atmospheric water precipitates, and seeding precipitates ~1% more of the non-precipitating ice/liquid

34 years of data from Utah show mild increases in precipitation downwind!
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"You're going to block out the sun to cool the planet!"

No, that's solar radiation management (SRM): emitting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere

Cloud seeding and SRM are different, here's my testimony to the TN legislature on the difference
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"You're playing God by modifying creation!"

God's first commandment to Adam was to steward the garden, Genesis 1:28 gives man dominion over creation

Dams modify rivers, Jesus was a carpenter who modified forests (cut trees) to build houses

We aim to serve God
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"There are risks you're not accounting for! These are complex systems!"

Granted, more research to understand cloud seeding must be done.

But 78 yrs of data show its safe

And our current, known risk is ecological and agricultural collapse due to water scarcity

A calculated risk is better than inevitable demise
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"Chem trails!"

1st, you'll never see cloud seeding in open blue skies, only certain "puffy" clouds are seedable (on the left)

2nd, the clouds you see on the right are contrails, frozen water emitted by plane engines

Although I recommend you don't drink jet fuel, the concentrations of toxins dispersed from plane flight is negligibly low

If toxic, government sponsored chem trails (not cloud seeding or SRM) exist, let's see the evidence
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Thats a wrap!

Cloud seeding is a necessary technology to avert worsening drought, and the CCP is using it regardless. We must steward it well

Attached are some relevant papers referenced for your diligence

Did I miss any questions? LMK and I'll respond in this thread!


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