', Pictured: Military vehicles move through Lismore, NSW, with much of town now underwater, James Bartolo (pictured)says the weather event is 'not natural' and created by the government. The map above depicts shallow groundwater storage in Australia from November 11-14, 2022, as measured by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites. But conspiracy theorists aren't buying it. Get in touch. Ouse in the Derwent River catchment was one of the hardest hit areas in this week's floods. Scientists blame intense rainfall on a combination of factors - but, on social media, unfounded allegations of "weather manipulation" have spread widely. A six-year study that Wyoming conducted from 2008 to 2013 among the most ambitious done thus far estimated that cloud seeding can boost precipitation within seedable clouds by about 3.3 . Others pointed to terms used in media coverage as proof the floods were part of an 'attack' and not natural. THE FACTS: There's no evidence to suggest that cloud seeding played a role in either flood, and an atmospheric research expert told the AP that cloud seeding would . Two words for you: nanoengineered materials. Through a reverse image search, we found that 7News Melbourne posted the original broadcast on their Facebook page on June 10, 2016, with the caption: "Residents in southern Tasmania want to know why cloud seeding was conducted the day before severe flooding hit the region." This stored water can help ensure renewable energy generation and downstream water availability during future drier years, when inflows are lower. Vivek Ramaswamy: The Indian . For frequently asked questions, please check our Knowledge Base. This podcast is produced in partnership with the UAE Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai. In the midst of an historic megadrought, states in the American West are embracing cloud seeding to increase snow and rainfall. "These aerial captures are commissioned after major weather catastrophes and natural disasters, including following the recent east coast flooding," the NearMap spokesman said. The natural occurring condensation nuclei are such as dust particles, volcano flash, or pollens. 'Could also be the start of the universal basic income scheme for the displaced victims of this tyranny? We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Trains are cancelled, bus services limited, the main Bruce Highway is closed at multiple locations and 51,000 people are without power. We call them UAEREP [United Arab Emirates Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science]. Cloud seeding is perhaps the ultimate silver bullet, in which literal silver in the form of silver iodide is infused into clouds, causing ice crystals to form and water to condense into rain or snow. Dr. Zou: The cloud seeding materials used today have been around for many decades. 2022 AFP. Cloud seeding gives these clouds a lot more ice crystals (or cloud nuclei). Cloud seeding is a real thing. Between 1967 and 1972, during the Vietnam War, it spent roughly $3 million each year on weather modification . It was not written by MIT Technology Reviews editorial staff. Fast forward to 2022 as Las Vegas, Nevada and the UAE are dealing with severe flooding which happened after acknowledged cloud seeding operations. This process is known as glaciogenic cloud seeding. This is part of APs effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. Formerly, cloud seeding was rejected in Australia on environmental grounds because of concerns about the protected species, the pygmy possum. Twitter users are sharing a clip from a 2016 news broadcast about flooding in Tasmania to claim it proves that cloud seeding provoked the heavy rainfall. Why Is the Government Cloud Seeding in NSW's Over the Areas That Have Just Been Ravaged by Floods? The report did not find evidence to prove that the cloud seeding flight contributed to the flood. You took this on as part of your research. Of these four experiments, the Snowy Mountains saw statistically significant increases in rainfall during the experiment. There was a high degree of luck in terms of where we started from [with Wivenhoe Dam], he says, adding that the climate crisis will only raise the risk of future events. Experimental cloud seeding technology does actually exist and has been used in places like China and the UAE. You can find out more about Snowy Hydros cloud seeding operations here. Dr. Zou: In the natural water cycle on the earth, the sun irradiates on the surface of our planet and the water on the surface is evaporated by the heat as the vapors. "Those numbers tell us that this is an inexpensive way to help add water to the system. As you know, cold clouds with sub-zero temperatures are also present in the atmosphere. The most common particulate used in cloud seeding is silver iodide, which has a similar structure to ice crystals and helps supercooled liquid water droplets cluster together. After cloud seeding activities were carried out to bring precipitation, some parts of China's Chongqing welcomed long-awaited rains recently, but experts warned that the city and the region should prepare for possible flooding and landslides. Flashes into the high RF appear on RADAR sometimes in the same geometric modulation patterns spoken about in HAARP research papers they appear coordinated with other stations, and not all stations in the same area produce the flash. Bartolo was handcuffed on his lounge room floor in a struggle seconds after the police broke inside. Defence and National Security Intelligence. Clouds form when water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses to form tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the sky. We can do a spectrum analysis and to find out their vapor condensation, the droplet formation, and the size and the number of the droplets. For the third time this year, Sydney has been hit by major floods. Our in-depth reporting reveals whats going on now to prepare you for whats coming next. A La Nia develops when strong winds blow the warm surface waters of the Pacific away from South America and towards Indonesia. Apr 22, 2022. There is no evidence to prove cloud seeding affected the flood. Conventional water resources such as rivers, lakes, and groundwater have become very limited, which is driving scientists and engineers to look for alternative water resources, says Dr. Linda Zou, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Khalifa University of Science and Technology. Laurel: Although cloud seeding has been around for decades, how does today's technology move it toward a greater success rate? Most commonly used to increase precipitation as a drought management technique, cloud . My guest today is Dr. Linda Zou, who is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Khalifa University of Science and Technology. Silver iodide is an ice-forming agent, which causes supercooled water droplets to freeze in the clouds. One user even claimed that planes about 1,200km away from the epicenter of the floods might be to blame. A team of pilots is conducting an investigation by releasing the seeding materials and in real time capturing and analyzing them. Electric vehicles have been available for decades. In the U.S., studies have found a few percentage points of increase in precipitation. Another weapon used to flood everyone,' a third wrote. The pilot's aviation company said it was conducting aerial surveys for a . 27 Jul 2022, 11:08 AM UTC Cloud seeding in Australia. Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) (link is external) Australia declared a national emergency March 9, 2022 due to a series of floods from torrential rain in the eastern region of the country that began in late Feb., impacting South East Queensland, Wide Bay-Burnett and parts of coastal New South Wales. Second, having the efficient seeding material for water droplet formation. And cloud. 7.4 Cloud seeding from a plane uses silver iodide burners, dry ice pellets or hygroscopic flares. Could you explain in more detail how cloud seeding works? On March 30, 2022, BBC News reported that thousands of people had to evacuate their homes due to a severe flood on the east coast of Australia. Laurel: Your research signifies a milestone toward achieving greater water security in the world. But experts say the flooding has been worsened by climate change and a La Nia weather phenomenon. Media reports estimated at least 22 . Brisbane suffered major flooding, along with the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, the Sunshine Coast, Caboolture, Toowoomba, Gatton, Ipswich, Logan City, the . This is done by firing small particles (usually silver iodide) into clouds . Adkins said the crew involved in the seeding reported some effect . 'Surprisingly, they have talked about cloud seeding and weather manipulation on the mainstream media so it's coming from multiple sources now. This is done by firing small particles (usually silver iodide) into clouds. What did you develop and how will it facilitate future research? Leverage advanced weather intelligence and decisioning tools for your enterprise business. Australia One Party (A1) - Update March 3, 2022. The silver iodide causes water droplets in the clouds to form ice crystals that become heavier and fall faster, releasing precipitation. . Mar 27, 2022 Cloud Seeding, . The flight lasted an hour and 34 minutes over the Upper Derwent catchment, targeting Lake Echo. Often they require minus 25 degrees or even lower. Sarah Tessendorf, a project scientist at the Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research who leads the centers work on cloud seeding, told the AP that claims linking the process to flooding lack an understanding of how cloud seeding works. Given climate change is a background to all weather events, its hard to say that it does not play a role, he says. Our topic today is cloud seeding to increase rainfall. Dr. Zou leads a groundbreaking research project using nanotechnology to develop cloud-seeding materials. "Cloud seeding aims to enhance the amount of rain falling from rain-bearing clouds," Mr McNamara said. The aim is to get other innovative projects from scientists in the field of rain enhancement from all over the world, with the winning ideas obtaining a grant of $5 million to work and improve on concepts for a period of three years. THE FACTS: In recent months, Australias southeastern coast has experienced some of its, in more than a decade, leading some social media users to highlight a previous instance of flooding and spread false theories about what caused, Twitter users are sharing a clip from a 2016 news broadcast about flooding in Tasmania to claim it proves that. In Gympie, the towns central business district is inundated. It involves manipulating existing clouds to try and help them produce more rain or snow. Try refreshing this page and updating them one In my project, we have changed the surface of the material to make it more reactive so it can work at a lower and wider relative humidity to make it more likely to happen. [email protected] with a list of newsletters youd like to receive. Often, a compound like Silver Iodine (AgI) is used as the particulate matter, as it is naturally occurring in the world in low concentrations. 2023 BBC. Thousands of residents were ordered to leave their homes. Handel Aviation operator Mark Handel told AFP on Thursday that the company does not seed clouds. Social media users are also sharing a separate example to baselessly claim that cloud seeding played a role in. AN AUSTRALIAN AVIATION company says it has received more than 100 threats following an online conspiracy theory that its pilots unleashed a flooding disaster by cloud seeding. Siems, a professor who leads a Monash University team studying clouds and precipitation, said the practice is not conducted in the Northern Rivers region and it cannot cause flooding. The process works by shooting microscopic particles of silver iodide into existing clouds using land based generators or aircraft. Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) February 26, 2022 About 18,000 homes in Brisbane and surrounding areas have been flooded and more than 50,000 are without power. Since the 1940s, scientists have studied ways to increase rainfall with the goal of increasing precipitation in arid and semi-arid climates. The colors depict the wetness percentile; that is, how the levels of groundwater compare to long-term records (1948-2012). Mr Bartolo, a former bodybuilder who claims to be an army veteran, also promotes a range of other unhinged conspiracies including that vaccines and 5G are weapons, the world is flat, space is fake, the government is run by freemasons, and that the water supply is being poisoned. The PUB should constantly monitor the weather patterns and warn the people when a flood is about to occur. Cloud seeding is a form of weather modification that has been around since the 1960s, and has been used repeatedly in some places, like Wyoming and Colorado. Reeling under the severe heatwaves and drought, some parts of Chongqing city in southern China welcomed the long-awaited rain as the southwestern . The innovation of my project is the characteristics data we obtained from the experiment. Wivenhoe has never dealt with that volume of water but it was lucky it was down at 60% at the start. The claims circulating online led to more than 100 threats being sent to Handel Aviation, despite it explaining the purpose of the flights on the contact page of the company's website. The BBC censored the crowd booing Boris Johnson at the Queens Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Social media users are sharing a news clip from 2016 about cloud seeding the day before a severe flood in Southern Tasmania. Iran has already accused Israel of stealing its water by using cloud-seeding that reduces rainfall over its territory. This podcast episode was produced by Insights, the custom content arm of MIT Technology Review. In Australia, a La Nia increases the likelihood of rain, cyclones, and cooler daytime temperatures. The floods have once again turned deadly, with the body of a man swept away by floodwaters in Queensland found by police this morning, bringing the state's death toll to 19 since January. One reason for the wetness is likely La Nia, which for the first time this century has returned for three consecutive years. Dr. Zou: Yes, you are right. Atmospheric water is one such alternative resource. In the open environment, it's more challenging. Source: nationalparks.nsw.gov.au Posts shared online alleged aerial survey pilots from Handel Aviation caused a second deluge in the flood-ravaged New South Wales town of Lismore on March 31 by cloud seeding dispersing a substance into the clouds to prompt rain. Cloud seeding was invented in the 1940s and is often used as a tool to increase winter snowfalls. The more people who know about this bulls**t the better.'. 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Climatology and Geophysics Agency BMKG said the great flood that hit Jakarta in early 2020 was "one of the most extreme rain events" since . New video piece available now! The analysis, which was also supported by the governments independent review, found that based on data collected by the aircrafts instruments and data from the Bureau of Meteorology, the cloud being seeded was already precipitating and contained significant amounts of ice, so efforts to initiate additional precipitation had no effect. The United Arab Emirates have been hit particularly hard by this season's sweltering heat, recording a 51.8C this June (that . Cloud seeding: Making rain in desert. On social media, they blame the extreme rainfall on "cloud seeding" and "weather manipulation". The Bureau of Meteorology warns that an area of low pressure over the south coast of Queensland is dragging in moisture from the Coral Sea to the north and then lifting it over the coastline. It is important to note that the American Chamber of Commerce in South China (AmCham South Theres a small one, a medium one, and a large one. These fall to the ground as snow or raindrops, depending on the surface temperatures. Many of the accounts seen by the BBC posting this type of content have also shared other conspiracy theories involving global warming, Covid vaccines, and the Moon landings. Theres no evidence to suggest it played a role in the 2022 floods in southeastern Australia, either. Pilots get "really violent" threats after online rumors wrongly pin devastating floods on cloud seeding. Some areas that flow into the river have had 300mm of rain in just six hours. Snowy Hydro also has other criteria for cloud seeding which includes; In addition to these atmospheric conditions, Snowy Hydro also takes into account the amount of water already in the landscape. concerns about cloud seeding were raised in relation to the 2022 Lismore and South-East Queensland floods. Companies covered in Cloud Seeding Market are RHS Consulting, Ltd North American Weather Consultants, Inc. As the water spreads to northern New South Wales, how did the so-called rain bomb develop? We build our cities on rivers for a reason it was good for transport and waste disposal but that also means we built on flood plains, Khan says. Recent social media posts claim that the 2022 floods in Australia were caused or exacerbated due to cloud seeding. Laurel: Could you describe that weather chamber that you used in your experiments? Figure 1: The area which is primarily targeted for increased precipitation from cloud seeding operations is shown in red (approximately 2110 km). This means cloud seeding operations happen only during suitable cold weather systems, generally cold fronts between May and October. Trials in Tasmania were also successful and since the 1960s, Hydro Tasmania has continued cloud seeding over the state. After extensive testing, the CSIRO has determined that cloud seeding is unlikely to be effective in much of Australia. So far, there are no reports of cloud seeding or floods in Tasmania in 2022. The extra water produced from cloud seeding can sit in water storages for multiple years. Today, that endeavor is making incredible leaps and bounds as scientists and engineers apply nanotechnology to improve the effectiveness of cloud seeding. About this record. Laurel: Dr. Zou, thank you so much for being with us here on the Business Lab. "Cloud seeding is not that effective, people do it only under very special circumstances," he said. According to Snowy Hydro, their Cloud Seeding Program increases precipitation by an average of 14 percent. As well as the rising river levels, the amount of rain falling locally causes flash floods all across the city and its outer suburbs as creeks swell, inundating areas that escaped the 2011 floods. Cloud seeding aims to protect flood-hit Jakarta. There is no evidence to prove cloud seeding affected the flood. Cloud seeding involves modifying a cloud's structure to increase the chance of precipitation. Covered in this AustraliaOne Update -. Oct 15 (Reuters) - Floods caused by torrential rain are hitting large swathes of southeast Australia, inundating hundreds of homes and forcing authorities to urge thousands of people to evacuate . Under NSW legislation, Snowy Hydro can only cloud seed when precipitation is likely to fall as snow to elevations below 1,400 metres. This type of microphysical response is very unlikely to produce such an overwhelming change in the cloud.. They vary in size. However, experts told AFP the floods were naturally occurring and cloud seeding cannot cause flooding. Pictured: Homes inundated by floodwater in Lismore, NSW, James Bartolo (pictured) is a former bodybuilder who promotes a range of bizarre conspiracies. Cloud condensation nuclei can be introduced into the atmosphere naturally or artificially. Cloud seeding is a real thing. Cloud seeding is still practiced in the Snowy Mountains in NSW today, carried out by Snowy Hydro Limited. Domensino says while several features in the atmosphere combined to deliver the rain, climate change likely made the event worse. Mr Bartolo's followers claimed aircraft leaving 'chemtrails' in the sky across NSW is how the cloud seeding process is being administered. As a result, flooding this time has been much more extensive from small creeks and large rivers, he says. Not since Charlemagne was crowned . Handel said he tasked his operations manager, Anthony Berko, with responding to each email and calling people who provided their phone numbers. Through the advancement in nanotechnology and nanoscience, nowadays we are working to design and engineer cloud seeding materials with optimal properties to ensure water vapor condensation will occur effectively and maximize the rainfall achieved. They say it's all part of a government plan to "weaponise" the weather against its own people - a popular conspiracy trope that has been around for years. Using this information is very good to compare the performance of different materials, and we did that extensively. Source: Snowy Hydro. Commonly called "chemtrails" this "cloud seeding" is picking up in pace. Laurel: To successfully cloud seed, you need a number of things: the right air temperature, the right humidity, a surface that attracts water and keeps it, and then the correct size material to allow condensation to form on the particle. (Photo: Flooding in Loganlea, Queensland on Feb. 28, 2022. Ice nucleation is important. Hydro Tasmania (HT)s cloud seeding activities on 5 June had no impact on precipitation, with this conclusion having a solid scientific basis, stated the June 2017 independent parliamentary report. A car is seen submerged in floodwater following heavy rains in the northern town of Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, March 30, 2022 in an image taken from video. Everything from wind speed, air movement and updraft, or a current of rising air, can affect a storms strength, Tessendorf said. The Queensland capitals mayor, Adrian Schrinner, says there is a rain bomb over the city. Why doesn't Australia use the cloud seeding method? Conspiracy theorists claim the floods devastating Australia's east coast are a 'government weather warfare attack' triggered by 'chemtrails' James Bartolo, former Melbourne anti-lockdown leader . Here are the tales of two unsuccessful Queensland rainmaking experiments -Brisbane, 1882 Advertisement, The Brisbane Courier, January 31, 1882In January . Dr. Zou: We want to move the materials, as I mentioned, from laboratory already and scale up, so it has a chance of reaching the market and to reach many different parts of the world as well, because there are so many countries worldwide that practice weather modification. 1. Water vapour gathers around the particles and eventually falls as precipitation. This episode was produced by Collective Next. An amusement ride is seen inundated by floodwaters in Sydney. Today, that endeavor is making . Conspiracy theorists spread the false claims on social media after weeks of torrential rains led to deadly east coast floods over the past two months, engulfing homes and sweeping cars from the roads. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft), Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Learn more about fact-checking at AP. When doing so, please reference. The BoM has said heavy rainfall events will get more intense as the world gets hotter. A subtropical climate naturally suited to big rain events and a city and suburbs built beside rivers and creeks in front of mountain ranges. Because the coated nanolayers are more hydrophilic and porous, the water can be absorbed easily and increase the local relative humidity of the crystals and increase the probability of forming water droplets. Brisbane wakes up to major flooding. AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. The claim is false. Immediately after the seeding is released, the electronic equipment, which are electronic optical cameras, will quickly take many, many photos to record the image while the seeding material's falling. NearMap confirmed to AFP the photos taken by Handel Aviation were commissioned to map disaster-affected areas for insurers and emergency services. Scientists blame intense rainfall on a . 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