Tinkering With Weather: Strategic, Military Applications Possible?

A flooded airport, travel delays, submerged streets, traffic chaos and more. The usually bustling city of Dubai was brought to its knees and the heavens opened up. More than a year’s rain in a few hours goes against the norm in the arid region and is bound to create havoc. The city had its worst rain pain in over seven decades. UAE relies on cloud seeding-induced artificial rain to meet its water requirements and has been doing it for over 20 years now. This time a similar exercise was done, says a Bloomberg report but maybe the process was mistimed, coming as it did with a storm sweeping through the Arabian Peninsula that brought in favourable rain conditions. So was the flooding a result of excessive cloud seeding as it were? Tough to answer but a host of factors, such as the volume of rain, climate change and improper draining, may have contributed. As the globe hots up and climate change hits home, can weather be manipulated to the extent that it’s weaponised?...Read More