The weekend has now confirmed more than 100 people after the flash floods in Central Texas, including 27 young campers and employees in a local girls summer camp.
Despite explaining meteorite professionals in news around the world, how and why the search catastrophe is flooded, parts of social media have become breeding basis for disintegration.
A popular conspiracy theory, provided reliability by current and former US political data – which includes Republican Marjori Taylor Green and former National Security Advisor General Mike Flyn -Conson “Cloud Seeding” – which is the practice of chemical exploitation rainfall from clouds in the area affected by the drawt.
The DW fact check takes a look.
Claim: Cloud seeding in some parts of Texas two days before the flood
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By Tuesday, over 2.6 million people saw A post on X By a famous conspiracy principle account, which suggested a link between the deadly floods and cloud seeding operations by the rainmaker two days ago, found by a weather modification start-up party that was found by the US Software Billionaire Peter Theal.
In Another postOver 2.8 million views, the same account claimed that the state of Texas is “running a seven large -scale cloud seeding program” “In an attack” “raising rainfall in an acre” and questioning: “Did he push Badal far away and trigger the flood?”
There was one with the post Video originally published on tiktok On May 2, in which the user questioned whether the “Blue Rain” was “CEMTRILS” at a camp site in Texas or, in the video details, “Cloud Seding” (SIC). The video was viewed more than 3.1 million times till Tuesday.
The claims received traction among some right -wing American politicians, including Christian nationalist and conspiracy theorist Marjori Taylor Green. Post on XOver 8.3 million, it was seen that it would introduce the Congress to “weather modification and end the dangerous and fatal exercises of geoenizing.”
General Mike Flynn, former National Security Advisor of US President Donald Trump during his first term, carried forward the principle for his 2.1 million followers on X. Here And Here,
Texas Flads: What is cloud seeding?
Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique used to induce rainfall.
This involves spreading insoluble salts in the form of silver iodide between existing clouds, shooting from ether, drone or ground through the aircraft. Water vapor particles in clouds are “tricked” to manufacture large drops around silver iodide particles, eventually growing big and heavy to fall as rain.
“Cloud seeding cannot make rain by nothing itself,” Edward GrispardPointing to a research Fellow, DW in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London (ICL): “Cloud seeding aims to identify clouds that are currently not raining, but to do much.”
The first attempts of cloud seeding were made by American scientists in the 1940s at the General Electric Research Laboratory. Today, this method is used in various countries around the world to relieve drawt including China and Middle East.
The company Rainmaker is contracted by various municipalities and state governments in the western United States at the center of the Texas flood claims, which has been confirmed by the CEO Ogstas Dorico to produce water in the regional affected areas by Druts including California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas. X space On Monday, July 7, a conservative affected was hosted.
The most recent operation in the area around Ker County, where the floods occurred, took place on July 2, two days before the flood, so speculation that the clouding activity could increase heavy rainfall.
Did Cloud Seeding contradict the Texas flood?
“Flood, disqualified, had nothing to do with the activities of the rainmaker or any modification activities,” Dorico emphasized on Monday’s X space – a claim supported scientific consensus.
“Cloud seeding may be able to modify a cloud already existing, but a large thunderstorm requires a large amount of water and energy in a large thunderstorm.” “Cloud seeding cannot provide ether in the thesis – it only creates small modifications in existing clouds.”
Travis HerzogPrize winning chief meteorologist at Broadcaster AB13 in Houston, Texas, sting in one Facebook post On July 6: “Cloud seeding cannot create this magnitude or shaped storm. In fact, Cloud Seeding cannot make a single cloud. All this can do all that is the current cloud and increase the rainfall by 20% – and even [cloud seeding] To create this weather system. ,
“Cloud Seeding played a zero role [the] Deadly Texas floods – underdeveloped, basic physics states that, “Agreed Matthew CappuchiFor atmospheric scientists and senior meteorologists at Miradar, a major weather app in Florida.
“In a dry environment, adding the cloud condensing nucleus can help the clouds rain subtle,” Cappuchi said One of many positions On this subject on X. “You do not make 4 trillion gallons of water in Texas.”
Texas: Cloud seeding particles were long scattered, experts say
What is more, CEO Dorico claimed, given a two-day gap between the last operation of the rainmaker on the Ker County, any rain-display silver iodide particles have spread to a long time completely inconsistent-one statement, which is supported by scientific consent.
“Horizontal winds at the cloud level would have shifted the amount of air that clouded the cloud after the cloud, which is 1,000 kilometers from the place of cloud seeding and between 4 July,” Dr. Sandra UutterSpeaking to DW, atmospheric science is a prestigious professor at Northern Carolina State University.
Dr. The census of the uteror was based on an average horizontal air spread speed of about 10 meters/s (36 km/h, 22.3 mph) after consulting the data of nearby weather from July 3.
Given that the state of Texas is about 1.320 km (820 mi) wide at its widespread point, Dr. The uteror concluded: “On July 2, any cloud seeding in the area around Ker County would not have changed the rain from the storms that hit the region on 4 July.”
Climate Change: Extreme weather events to become ‘more common’
Edward Grisperade of ICL concluded that “Flood in Texas was inspired by a record amount of atmospheric moisture on an area that is known for flash floods” and warns that, the atmosphere is heated due to climate change, discovers the incidence of extreme rainfall:
“Climate model estimates that while Texas may have a little dry on average due to climate change, the chances of rainfall will increase, suggesting that the thesis types of thunderstorms in the future would be normal.”
