Yesterday Dubai experienced the most rainfall in 75 years which caused catastrophic flooding. Dubai has a desert climate so why was this rain even occurring many will be asking themselves. Is this down to climate change and global warming and the answer is no. Many would like you to believe this and why they don't offer you all the facts.
Dubai has been cloud "seeding" since the 1990's which is a process of creating artificial rainfall when under normal circumstances that cloud would have moved on and rained under the right natural conditions elsewhere. This is seen as interfering with nature whilst robbing other areas of their rainfall.
Cloud seeding has been around for many decades and was even used during he Vietnam war helping to extend the Monsoon season by an extra month. Today farmers use a similar type of technology to protect their crops from hail storms by breaking up the threat before the hail forms.
Yesterday before the heavy rainfalls flooded Dubai the right clouds to tap into were spotted and the cloud seeding plane did 6 trips firing it's salt flares into the clouds. What did they expect because this is how you harvest rain with the only problem you can never tell how much rain will fall.
Dubai being a desert climate has it's limitations when considering the future as we all know their oil supply is diminishing and they need to find alternative revenue. They created a new city attracting businesses and shopping centers aiming to become the next Hong Kong as a fly to shopping hub. Tourism was another obvious solution due to the desert climate offering a guaranteed sunshine filled vacation.
The only ingredient missing was drinking water and besides using Desalination plants turning sea water into drinkable water. Dubai's water table is dropping on average 1 m per year and it is predicted that with the current population growth the UAE will have no water left within 50 years.
Water is life and without drinking water Dubai would seize to exist and why they are fanatical about cloud seeding. One would think they would have sufficient drainage in place in order to capture this "natural" disaster, but clearly they have not got to that point yet.
Make no mistake neighboring countries are envious of the rainfall that Dubai is receiving and feel that Dubai is stealing their natural resources. There is no other way to look at this because Dubai are stealing water from other regions where the rain was destined to fall.
We all know money can buy you anything including rain fall and the press stating this had nothing to do with cloud seeding is talking utter nonsense. I am sure some money flowed their way to spin an angle on climate change away from the UAE stealing the rain. The cloud seeder plane flew 6 times into the clouds yesterday and is the only reason for the deluge that followed and nothing else.
