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  2. Is Cloud Seeding to Blame for Floods? What to Know - AOL

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    In a publication for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Laura Kuhl, a public policy professor at Northeastern University, argues that cloud seeding may do “more harm than good” due to these ...

  3. Cloud seeding - Wikipedia

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    Cloud seeding in the United Arab Emirates is a weather modification technique used by the government to address water challenges in the country. Cloud seeding is also referred to as man made precipitation and artificial rain making. [61] The United Arab Emirates is one of the first countries in the Persian Gulf region to use cloud seeding ...

  4. Why cloud seeding cannot make or control the weather

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    The commenters are often referring to cloud seeding, a weather modification technique currently used in the United Arab Emirates and several places in the U.S., mostly in the Western U.S., a ...

  5. Weather modification - Wikipedia

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    Cloud seeding can be done by ground generators (left) or planes. Cloud seeding is a common technique to enhance precipitation. Cloud seeding entails spraying small particles, such as silver iodide, onto clouds to attempt to affect their development, usually with the goal of increasing precipitation. Cloud seeding only works to the extent that ...

  6. Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in ...

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    Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. ... “It’s maybe a little bit of a human ...

  7. Rainmaking - Wikipedia

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    Since the 1940s, cloud seeding has been used to change the structure of clouds by dispersing substances into the air, potentially increasing or altering rainfall. [2] In spite of experiments dating back to at least the start of the 20th century, however, there is much controversy surrounding the efficacy of cloud seeding, and evidence that cloud seeding leads to increased precipitation on the ...

  8. What is cloud seeding? Torrential Dubai rain sparks ... - AOL

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    Cloud seeding is a weather modification concept that attempts to draw more rain or snow out of a cloud than would occur naturally. Cloud droplets don’t form spontaneously.

  9. Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in ...

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    Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No one reports the type of flooding that on Tuesday doused the UAE, which often deploys the technology in an attempt to squeeze every drop of moisture from a sky that usually gives less than 4 or ...