Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

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1. **Could cloud seeding have caused flash flooding?**

   Cloud seeding cannot conjure up a storm.

   There isn’t even consensus on how helpful cloud seeding can be to help ease a water shortage. A critique Swain makes of of this strategy is that it can likely only lead to a modest increase in precipitation over a small area at best. So it’s even less likely to have the opposite problem.

   Cloud seeding does not add more moisture to the atmosphere than what’s already present, Swain explains in his YouTube office hour. “You’re really just encouraging existing moisture in existing clouds to fall out with a slightly higher efficiency than you did before,” he says. “This is not something that can create storms. It can’t even create clouds.”

   Read more from Justine Calma: [https://www.theverge.com/science/704711/cloud-seeding-flash-flood-conspiracy-theory](https://www.theverge.com/science/704711/cloud-seeding-flash-flood-conspiracy-theory)

2. Why would Donald do that to the country he loves?

3. Morgan Freeman Narrator voice

   ‘it did not stop. Instead, as the climate crisis worsened, they blamed the government. Not the actual government, who they voted for, and worshipped like gods, but another government that existed only in their imaginations’

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