Was Dubai Flooding Caused by A Misfired Geoweapon Targeted At Iran?
Nothing as sexy as an orbital death ray, I’m afraid, but deadly serious all the same. And there’s every reason to believe USA is next.
There have been several incidents that have made the rounds as evidence of various geoweapons deployed by GAE, such as earthquakes, strange weather patterns and most notably, the incineration of Lahaina, Hawaii. I don’t believe those conspiracy theories, mainly because if GAE did have such capability, Russia would be less habitable than Venus by now.
That being said, it’s undeniable that GAE is very interested in developing geoweapon capability. Bill Gates alone, has failed to blot out the sun at least three times so far. California is having ongoing, aerial aerosol testing based out of San Francisco and I pray that my ill feeling the last couple weeks has merely been pollen season as usual. Heck, I’m still monitoring the “Havana syndrome” story; it’s back in the news as a cunning Russian plot.
And then, when I read about the recent flooding of Dubai, UAE… the city planner in me noticed something.
The United Arab Emirates witnessed its heaviest rainfall in 75 years this week, triggering massive flooding that swept away cars, caused flights to be canceled and left multiple people dead.
Some areas recorded more than 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday — the most since record-keeping began in 1949.
At Dubai International Airport on Tuesday, nearly 4 inches of rain fell over the course of a 12-hour period on Tuesday, or roughly what Dubai usually records in an entire year.
Half the planet just gakked themselves with a spoon over that. Regardless, cities are built for local conditions.
The deluge was also deadly. A 70-year-old man died after flooding swept away his vehicle in Ras Al-Khaimah, police said, and at least 18 people were killed in nearby Oman.
Extreme rainfall events are becoming more and more common due to climate change, which has increased the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, helping intensify the downpours.
You mean anthropogenic climate change, right? Riiight?
Intensified Rainfall and Urban Chaos: Dubai's Cloud Seeding Program Backfires with Flooding
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By Isaac Jones for TrendyDigest, 17 April 2024
Torrential rains have plunged the United Arab Emirates into urban chaos, prompting flight cancellations, school closures, and immobilizing traffic. The downpour, exacerbated by the country’s cloud seeding operations, has overwhelmed a landscape ill-prepared for such weather events.
The UAE, recognizing its vulnerability to water scarcity, initiated cloud seeding in 2002, striving to secure its water resources. However, the technology has shown its double-edged nature, as the absence of sufficient drainage systems in many areas has facilitated the current flooding crisis.
Oh, look. Anthropogenic climate change. I guess the Marxists are right after all, for once… wait… that was fast. They’re scrubbing this story off the Internet as I blog. The one time they’re right, and they try to hide it! Here’s an example:
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Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Flooding Hits City
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By Verity Ratcliffe and Kateryna Kadabashy,
Posted 16 April 2024
Corrected 18 April 2024
The article is paywalled, but never mind that. Check out that sweet, sweet discrepancy between the article’s title and URL. What did they correct, I wonder?
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The desert nation is no stranger to ambitious geoengineering projects, with cloud seeding being a prominent tool to enhance precipitation. By introducing substances into clouds to encourage rainfall, the UAE’s weather manipulation efforts are a testament to their proactive approach to water security. Nonetheless, recent events suggest that the embrace of this technology has not been met with the necessary infrastructural adaptations to manage excessive rainfall.
In an ironic twist, the very interventions designed to sustain the nation’s water supply have now inundated its cities. The cloud seeding operations took advantage of a low-pressure system, an approach that, in this instance, has resulted in adverse effects. The sustained heavy rainfall has put the spotlight on the country’s preparedness for such outcomes, raising questions about the future of cloud seeding as a reliable solution to water scarcity.
If you artificially increase rainfall then get surprised by flash flooding, then maybe playing God is not the hobby you’re looking for. Maybe you should play Isaac Newton instead, and have apples flung at your skull until you learn better.
The dilemma faced by the UAE is emblematic of the broader challenges associated with geoengineering. As nations worldwide explore innovative technologies to combat environmental issues, the interplay between human intervention and natural systems becomes increasingly complex. The current predicament in Dubai underscores the importance of integrating technological solutions with resilient infrastructure to withstand both expected and unintended outcomes.
What caused this flooding, Marxists? Anthropogenic climate change, or anthropogenic climate change? Why are you scrubbing this story off the Internet when it’s exactly what you’ve been predicting since your teenage daughter’s hair spray failed to cause an outbreak of radiation sickness by burning a hole in the ozone layer?
(They actually claimed that back in the 90s, in order to ban chlorofluorocarbons. AKA air conditioning.)
One obvious reason for scrubbing, is because the Climate Changers are now civilly liable for 20 wrongful deaths, half an hour of airport closure and the displeasure of the UAE royal family. Just for starters. But maybe there are other reasons?
Here’s the Climate Changers talking as they began operations:
UAE heavy rains, thunder, and more: Inside the NCM’s cloud seeding missions
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By Sharon Benjamin, 16 Apr 2024
In an exclusive interview with Arabian Business, UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP) Director Alya Al Mazrouei discusses cloud seeding missions, rainfall targets and more…
Sigh. They force women into hijab, then place women in authority.
The UAE’s cloud seeding missions have seen tremendous success over the past two decades, positioning it as a leader in the space and one of the first Gulf countries to adopt this technology to increase rainfall and combat water scarcity – especially during the summer months.
Uh… hold up. Remember the Law of Conservation of Mass? You don’t get something for nothing. If you increase the rainfall in one location then you’re reducing rainfall in another location, probably a more inland location. I remember Oregon began seeding clouds in the 1970s, and Idaho & Utah complained about the subsequent droughts, because the usual rainclouds were no longer reaching them.
I tried to look that story up to confirm, only to have my searches buried in all the states… specifically Oregon… that have suddenly become interested in massive cloud-seeding efforts in recent years.
Cloud seeding is a technique used in the UAE to increase rainfall. This is done by putting tiny particles into clouds, which help water droplets come together and form rain.
The UAE National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) is in charge of the UAEREP which controls the cloud seeding operations. They focus on specific clouds in the northeast mountains where it’s more likely to rain in the summer.
The northeast mountains, they say. Hold that thought.
“Cloud seeding is one of the weather modification techniques used to encourage the formation and growth of precipitation particles in the clouds, thus increasing rainfall,” Al Mazrouei said, adding that in the UAE, environmentally-safe materials are dispersed into the clouds.
“We use hygroscopic materials – which are natural sources – such as potassium chlorides or sodium chlorides, which then enhance rainfall through cloud seeding.”
There are also nano-materials – which are also natural – used in the process, Al Mazrouei said, however, these particles are covered with titanium dioxide, which gives additional effectiveness to boost rainfall up to three times more than hygroscopic materials.
“These materials are developed by the UAEREP and is one of the breakthrough outcomes that have come since the development of these materials in 2016, until today. The technology works by introducing these seeding agents to the clouds, and are done by aircrafts and ground generators,” she said.
Cloud seeding can increase rainfall by about 10-15 percent in humid conditions and up to 30-35 percent when the skies are clearer. The UAE is even doing research to improve the science of making it rain.
That could easily explain the flooding, if they found a new seeding-material that worked a little too well.
How odd that Arabs would be the ones advancing a new technology…
Cloud seeding is an important way for the UAE to manage their water resources. The first attempt in cloud seeding was carried out by the UAE in 1982, Al Mazrouei said, adding that it was only by early 2001 when the UAE cloud seeding programme kicked off in collaboration with different international organisations such as the National Centre Of Atmospheric Research in Colorado, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in USA.
…oh. This is a GAE research project, not a UAE project. So, why would UAE be interested? Dubai is a beachfront city. They have the money to desalinate as much as they want. I read a few years back, they were experimenting with towing icebergs up from Antarctica. These people don’t need to seed clouds in order to get water. They don’t even have the infrastructure to harvest rainwater, now very obviously.
“Mainly, the cloud seeding operations in the UAE aim to strategically enhance water security. In addition, the primary objective of the UAE cloud seeding programme aim to advance the science and technology and the limitation of rain enhancement,” she said, adding that the UAEREP is also looking to spur “additional investments” for international research partnerships and collaborations between multi-sectors to add value to the field.
That sounds suspiciously like gain-of-function research. I don’t believe GAE’s interest in controlling where rain falls and how much, is benign. Especially when it controls the coastlines of North America while most of the Deplorables live deep in the interior.
So, I pull up a map of UAE to figure out who is NOT getting rain as a result of UAE’s cloud seeding:
And Iran is immediately to the north of those northeasterly mountains, on the inland side away from the ocean. It’s not a perfect weather interception, but maybe good enough to try for? I don’t think Oman is as tight with GAE as the UAE is.
Kuwait or Saudi Arabia might be victims, either too or instead of, but they don’t grow anything but oil rigs anyway.
If my theory holds weight, then Iranian annual rainfall would have dropped by a statistically significant amount beginning around 2001, when this project started. I found some data and plugged it into the ol’ spreadsheet.
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X-axis: Year 1 is 1901, so Year 121 is 2021, and Year 101 would be the point of change. Y-Axis: annual rainfall in centimeters. Precipitation in Iran has definitely dropped off from roughly 1955-1985, but is still within historical averages and the rate didn’t change much circa Y2K. 2022’s rainfall is 17.4cm elsewhere, so there is a definite possibility that UAE’s cloud seeding is finally causing Iran some hardship.
But it’s not a smoking gun. Besides, Iran’s most agricultural areas seem to get their water from the Caspian Sea at its northern border.
Whether my theory is correct, I expect that cloud seeding will be the first geoweapon deployed by GAE against… agriculture specifically, and the survival of humanity generally.