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Yep, it's turning into a real bun-fight between climate crisis cultists and 'deniers':

"Many of the people pointing to cloud seeding are also climate change deniers who are trying to divert attention from what's really happening, Mann and other scientists said."

"When we talk about heavy rainfall, we need to talk about climate change. Focusing on cloud seeding is misleading," said Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto, who heads a team that does rapid attribution of weather extremes to see if they were caused by global warming or not. "Rainfall is becoming much heavier around the world as the climate warms because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture."

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-experts-dont-cloud-seeding-played.html

GOOD GRIEF! People losing their heads all the time, desperate to prove or disprove their pet theories. Just examine the evidence! THEN voice a calm, considered opinion based on the weight of that evidence.

Now I'm going to have to spend hours trawling through the literature cited in defence of cloud seeding, plus an extra few minutes dismissing the ridiculous assertions of the climate change fanatics!

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This is going to prove to be even more contentious than I thought: Judith Curry and Matt Ridley have now joined the ranks of the cloud-seeding convinced.

https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1780833831144100207

https://twitter.com/curryja/status/1780607123992506545

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