Iran Begins Cloud Seeding To Induce Rain Amid Historic Drought (bbc.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/1749243/iran-begins-cloud-seeding-to-induce-rain-amid-historic-drought
- Source link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4172yl0l1o
> Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna reported. Urmia is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast salt bed. Further operations will be carried out in east and west Azerbaijan, the agency said.
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> Rainfall is at record lows and reservoirs are nearly empty. Last week President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that if there is not enough rainfall soon, Tehran's water supply could be rationed and people may be evacuated from the capital. Cloud seeding involves injecting chemical salts including silver or potassium iodide into clouds via aircraft or through generators on the ground. Water vapour can then condense more easily and turn into rain. The technique has been around for decades, and the UAE has used it in recent years to help address water shortages. Iran's meteorological organisation said rainfall had decreased by about 89% this year compared with the long-term average, Irna reported.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4172yl0l1o
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This is from the 2025 "Them Medieval Days Are Over" edition.
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Allah hasn't ever said shit. Read the Koran, he's so fucking other than he can only send angels to deliver shit, sort of like Amazon but without the free shipping. And he cannot respond to prayers because that would be tipping his hand into saying something just by the effect. Basically he's a Eunuch but with a posse.
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why be a c@nt?
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> why be a c@nt?
Are you a cat? Didn't think so. I wouldn't go criticising other people for being a catn't if you're not a cat yourself.
Iran sabotaged their own water system (Score:3)
[1]https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ha... [wsj.com]
Use archive.is if you can't figure it out otherwise.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hatred-of-israel-caused-irans-water-crisis-4e566bac?mod=hp_opin_pos_5
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Real Life Lore did a video on it recently as well: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kSGH4I8Ps&pp=0gcJCQgKAYcqIYzv
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> Use archive.is if you can't figure it out otherwise.
That seems like a lot of effort. I prefer to simply not read WSJ. Post a workable link next time.
Desalination (Score:2)
For the foreseeable future, there is enough water in the Caspian sea to desalinate. If they would just stop playing with nuclear centrifuges and build some pumps and pipelines instead.
San Diego Rainmaker Flood of 1916 (Score:2)
I can't quite make out the labels on the greatest rainmaker of all time's chemical bottles: [1]https://www.sandiego.gov/digital-archives-photos/rainmaker-charles-hatfield [sandiego.gov]
[1] https://www.sandiego.gov/digital-archives-photos/rainmaker-charles-hatfield
Kind of like (Score:2)
how sick people turn to essential oils to solve their problems. Good luck.
Re:Kind of like (Score:5, Interesting)
Not really. Cloud seeding happens in the US and Canada every year on a large scale. Usually it's done by insurance companies to reduce damages from hail storms by getting storms to rain out before hail can develop. And it does work but that is not always a good thing. In fact farmers in North Dakota have been calling for years for cloud seeding to be banned because what ends up happening is a big storm will come up but before it can advance across their farms, cloud seeding will cause it to all rain out in one area, rather than bring rain to a wider area. That's kind of the whole problem with weather modification. It does work but a net positive in one area might end up being a net negative over a wider area, or farther away.
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What does it matter. The CIA will just step up their cloud seeding efforts to offset anything the Iranians try to do instead.
I have no knowledge of any such plan by the CIA to use any kind of weather manipulation techniques to cause droughts in Iran, but you all have to admit that it sounds like exactly like the kind of thing they would do and based on what they've done to other countries historically is not outside the realm of possibility for them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't doing this as it
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So the CIA doesn't really work anymore. After 70 years people have gotten wise to their tricks. There were multiple efforts to depose South American heads of state that were less than perfect for the CIA and American interests (and by American interests I mean American corporate interests, not your interests). Those attempts failed.
That's why we're getting ready to go to war with Venezuela so we can take the oil and so Trump can distract from the Epstein files. In the old days we could easily depose a w
Re: Kind of like (Score:2)
I know youâ(TM)re probably half joking, half serious. But you may be interested to know that Iran has accused Israel and UAE of stealing water via cloud seeding west of their territory.
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From Wikipedia:
Despite decades of research and application, cloud seeding's effectiveness remains a subject of debate among scientists, with studies offering mixed results on its impact on precipitation enhancement, according to a report issued by the US Government Accountability Office in December 2024.[10] Whether cloud seeding is effective in producing a statistically significant increase in precipitation has been a matter of academic debate, with contrasting results depending on the study in question an
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That's not even remotely comparable. There's no academic debate about the efficacy of essential oils. There's wide spread agreement that they do fuck all. Since you like Wikipedia so much: "There is not sufficient evidence that it can effectively treat any condition.[3] Improper use of essential oils may cause harm including allergic reactions, inflammation and skin irritation. Children may be particularly susceptible to the toxic effects of improper use.[4][5] Essential oils can be poisonous if ingested or