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Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop

As The Verge's resident disaster writer, I'm tired of this nonsense. So let's just get into it. What is cloud seeding? Cloud seeding is basically an attempt to make precipitation fall from clouds. It targets clouds that have water droplets that are essentially too light to fall. Scientists at MIT learned in the 1940s that […]

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