In the days after floods tore through parts of Texas, questions surfaced again about whether the storms were human caused.

Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that employs chemicals to stimulate the formation of ice crystals or raindrops within clouds.

For nearly 80 years, an approach called cloud seeding has, in theory, given people the ability to get more rain and snow from storms and make hailstorms less severe.

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However, Fried points out that in a broader sense, humans already modify weather without meaning to. Exhaust from cars, ...

Even more controversial than cloud seeding are geoengineering techniques to block the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth. Some involve injecting sulfur into the stratosphere.

Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing and passing bills related to weather modification – a decades-old ...

Overall, the study concluded the raw results weren’t statistically significant, but that modeling studies, other research techniques and related studies led to the conclusion that cloud seeding ...

Farmers are getting desperate for solutions to endure their fourth month of drought. Local water districts that manage the aquifers believe cloud seeding is working, and pay $0.04 an acre to keep ...

News & Politics A West Texas Cloud Seeder Debunks Those Conspiracy Theories Why there’s no scientific basis for blaming the longtime drought-fighting practice for the tragic Central Texas flooding.

Although cloud seeding periodically occurs in the Texas Hill Country, it’s physically impossible for cloud seeding to cause the recent flood. Flooding storms will flood.

At least nine states had active cloud-seeding programs in place as of last year, official data shows.