United Arab Emirates Record Flooding, Cloud Seeding Controversy
Dubai and the United Arab Emirates experienced record-breaking rainfall on April 16, 2024, receiving a year's worth of precipitation in 24 hours. While a Bloomberg reporter suggested the event was linked to government cloud seeding operations, official meteorology centers and scientific experts in the Guardian denied these claims, attributing the intensity to broader climate patterns. The flooding grounded flights at the world's second-busiest airport and resulted in 18 deaths in nearby Oman.
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00:00 Hold on a second, let me get this straight. Didn't you basically invent podcasting? Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. Hence, there's an April 18, 2024, this year award-winning Kimberlation Media assassination episode 1652. This is no agenda. Seeding your clouds and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where they're all singing Google, Google you can't hide, I'm John C. Dvorak. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do that in a minute. Let's do the Google. I don't have anything. That was it. Oh, I have the clip. Oh, good. I have a Google, Google clip. But before that, the funniest thing, just the funniest thing happened.
00:52 I love this story and I love how the mainstream is like, what are we going to do about this? This is a problem. Jeff Hogan in the WLR Live Center. Got some brand new video we've been telling you about this rainfall in the United Arab Emirates and in Dubai. Record breaking rainfall and flooding. This is a view from the Dubai airport. This rain has shut down schools. It is shut down roads, grounded flights. The second largest airport in the world looks like a river. This is the tarmac. outside the plane window. Look at this view here. The country got 10 inches of rain in 24 hours. That is an entire year's worth. It's creating dangerous conditions all across that region. People are being told don't travel unless it's absolutely necessary. In nearby Oman, there are 18 people who have been killed because of this severe weather. The National Center of Meteorology in Abu Dhabi says this rain event surpasses anything that they have seen since they began keeping records
01:49 in 1949. So I'm looking around and I come across Bloomberg Radio, which is a, you know, they're 24 hours a day, Bloomberg Radio. They have video of it as well. Of course, you got people sitting there with headphones on, with a big mic in front of their face. Yes, Bloomberg Radio, watch me. And they have a new reporter in Dubai. He's kind of a cute lady, you know, she's got a... I cut out the whole part about her. She's new and she's so happy to be here and her and her husband are living there with a young child, everything's great. But she's new, so she's inexperienced and doesn't quite know how things go. You're not supposed to talk about certain topics. So she right away explains exactly what happened and why this took place and you will hear
02:38 Some interference being run the official response is actually this is I think they called it goodwill reign and and let me explain the context of this so this is also new to me right I had I was not familiar with this concept of cloud seeding and for anyone who's not heard of that term. It's basically a methodology that some governments in the region use to help encourage and rainfall. And what they do is whenever they see cloud formations, they inject substance into the clouds. And in this case, I think it's salt, anything with a bit of iodine. And the whole point is for those substances to attract moisture to encourage more rainfall in very barren landscapes like deserts and in the Middle East and what we have in the UAE.
03:20 And so what some people are saying, and these are, you know, this is allegations, of course, but denied by the government, is that this is an example of cloud seeding that has gone too far. The response to that of course is that it wasn't just, you didn't just have a rainfall in the UAE, you also saw it in other parts of the world. You saw it in Pakistan, Afghanistan. I want Damien Sassar to jump in here. I just realized, Jumana, that every other word from Damien is a Greek letter. Jumana, I mean, by the way, Jumana and I are having lunch when she comes to New York in a few weeks time, but Jumana, I really need to ask you this one question.
03:57 What is the damage? You're on the ground there. I mean, I see these pictures and they are breathtaking. Please. I mean, she says it right there. She's boots on the ground. She's brand new. Jump in, man. We got to stop that. But we can't have that be the official explanation. And the Guardian, of course, you'd have the Guardian to come out and say, oh, Where is it here? Don't blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods. Did cloud seeding cause the heavy rain? In short, scientists say no. In a statement issued to multiple news outlets, except for the New Lady in Bloomberg, the NCM, which oversees cloud seeding operations in the UAE, said there were no such cloud seeding operations before or during the storm. We did not engage in any seeding operations during this particular weather event. He doesn't say before, he says during.
04:56 Experts meanwhile, John you'll be interested to know, have debunked the cloud seeding theory. Martin Umbaum, a professor of atmospheric physics and dynamics at the University of Reading said that cloud seeding, certainly in the Emirates, is used for clouds that don't normally produce rain. Huh? You would not normally develop a very severe storm out of that. And he added that in the 50s and 60s people still thought about using cloud seeding to produce these big weather events or change these big weather events. This is long being recognized as just not a realistic possibility. Well I'm sorry, this cloud seeding happens all the time for rain. Well I'll tell you this, what he just said at the end there, since I was a kid in California during the cloud seeding era in the 50s and 60s. The days of cloud seeding.
05:49 They used to pour rain just constantly with these clouds and they would tell us, hey, you know, we're seeding and boom, next thing you know, it'd be storming like crazy. And later, earlier in the in that clip, the new the new lady said, you know, they were warning everybody a day and a half ahead of time. Hey, it's going to rain. Now of course Deutsche Welle took the expected tact. While it's not clear to what extent climate change may have caused the destroyed rainfall, experts say it's an example of the kind of extreme weather we can only expect to increase as temperatures rise around the world. With climate change what we see a lot
06:30 is that you expect increased intensity of storms like this, heavy, heavy rainfall and increased conditions to form storms to even begin to think about precipitation. As the climate changes, the Gulf is expected to experience bigger and more frequent rainstorms. Oh, OK. All right. There you go. This is truly man-made climate change. man-made extreme weather event. It's true if you want to look at it that way. It's just, I'm so sad that they, why don't they just say it? Yeah, it was cloud seeding. We all know it. We have to deny. Yeah, I don't even know. It's not even as though, especially the news media, it's not as though they're
07:21 Butter their butter their bread is buttered by climate change. They're not making money It's the you know, the researchers and scammers that are making money off the climate change Notion, so why is the media all in on this way? They why can't they be honest with they with themselves? Oh, let's dig up the guy who will say climate change Well, I have there's plenty of guys who would say just the opposite if they wanted to be there in the Rolodex You can have, if you wanted to put a story together, I could put 10 guys saying it's bullcrap and 10 guys saying, oh yeah, climate change. Easy. If I wanted to. Climate changed the movie, everybody. Look for it. It's on YouTube. I do have a Genesis clip, interestingly enough, which includes one of our favorite people. I don't know if you saw this. It was circulating around suddenly and it came by and I scooped it up in the net. 1982, which is, is that 42 years ago?
