Monday, 17 August 2026

Time To Start Sowing The Seeds?

Thankfully we are starting to see the end of summer adverts and as someone who is not a fan of this season anyway, i can only say thank whatever God is in charge of these things because it has been an awful Summer with temperatures nudging towards 40°C and wildfires springing up everywhere in the woods and forests.
In my area in the South of England we haven't seen rain since 15 June, 63 days, and amidst hose pipe bans and use water responsibly adverts as reservoirs fall dangerously low, it has been a feat of endurance to not climb inside the fridge and stay there until September but as the Climate is changing and we are finally getting what Environmentalists have been saying is coming since i can remember in the 80's, it is something we will have to get through every year which Governments will have to somehow deal with.
I keep hearing about Cloud Seeding which is basically a weather modification technique that adds tiny ice-forming particles into existing clouds to bring rain so maybe that is something which may be considered.
The UK government has stated it is not deploying weather modification technologies and has no plans to do so but i still asked at the MET Office who were sceptical as not only are there environmental concerns regarding chemical dispersal such as silver iodide in the atmosphere but the results are inconclusive and cloud seeding requires pre-existing clouds with moisture, it cannot make weather out of a clear sky which is what we have had for almost the entire Summer.
Research shows that cloud seeding operations take place in more than 50 countries worldwide with China and India the main users to combat water scarcity, boost mountain snowpack, suppress hail and clear localised pollution so maybe we should send some experts from here over the one of them to discuss things because the alternative is to start building desalination plants in our cities because something will have to change because we sure as hell are too stupid to stop Climate Change ourselves. 

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