L’flood in Dubai it would have been caused by anomalous rainfall, the result of a pre-announced storm, and not the outcome of a geo-engineering operation.
Lextreme event that recently hit the Dubai area is unprecedented, the kind that would occur once in a hundred years in the United Arab Emirates.
Nearly two years of rain have hit the region as of Tuesday: the National Weather Center recorded 254.8 millimeters of rain falling in less than 24 hours.
In seeking an answer to what happened, attention was immediately turned toartificial cloud seeding (cloud seeding)a geo-engineering technology capable of cause rain in very arid areas such as the United Arab Emirates.
The practice involves injecting silver iodide into the clouds, which contain a lot of water vapor. This would encourage the formation of ice crystals, which would then turn into rain or snow.
Cloud seeding has been around since 1940, and research intoAmerican Meteorological Society known as The Snowie Project highlighted the effectiveness of this practice: in the space of two hours, enough snow could be produced to fill 282 Olympic swimming pools.
As reported by Washington Postmany people thought that this could be the cause of the flood, but scientists have denied it: the torrential rains they were the result of meteorological events that had been foreseeable a week earlier.
These are events that due to global warming they will become increasingly frequent and extreme.
Furthermore, the National Meteorological Center of the United Arab Emirates confirmed to CNBC that no cloud seeding operations would have been conducted before the floods of recent days. In any case, researching possible insemination would require in-depth and sophisticated research.
According to most meteorologists, the event was the product of the movement of air in areas of low pressure combined with abundant humidity. The hypothesis is also underlined by Al Jazeera, which explains how the storm was caused by abundant tropical humidity coming from the equator, then released onto the territory of the United Arab Emirates. The data https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1780407026583065076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1780407026583065076%7Ctwgr%5Ee6677341442b8dd1c7520cb1b2003d0148ce0ff2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F4%2F18%2Fwas-cloud-seeding-responsible-for-the-floodings-in-dubai also by some meteorologists on X.
Friederike Otto, a climate scientist fromImperial College Londonhe told the Washington Post that climate change causes torrential rainfall around the world because warmer air can hold more moisture.
As we know, global warming is a growing phenomenon. According to the annual climate report of Noaa, the US scientific and regulatory agency, since 1982 the speed of warming of the oceans and the Earth it would be around 0.20 degrees every ten years.
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