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“Best-case-scenario estimates — absolute best-case — are that these cloud-seeding operations are able to augment the amount of precipitation by at most 10% to 15% over very limited areas,” Swain said. “On average, it’s a lot lower than that. In fact, in some cases, it’s difficult to prove that cloud seeding does anything at all.”

Indeed, Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, has gone so far as to call cloud seeding a scam — in part because it can prey on farmers and other people who are desperate for rain, and because it typically delivers only modest results, he said.

“There’s no physical way that cloud seeding could have made the Texas storm,” Dessler said, noting that the storm was fueled by extremely high levels of atmospheric water that stemmed from a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico. “This is a nonsense argument. There’s no debate here about whether cloud seeding played a role in this

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Preliminary data from a NASA-funded Greenland survey point to a two-degree centigrade rise in regional ocean water temperatures in less than a decade.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers took the data from a subglacial Greenland channel in February of this year using a custom-built, remotely operated vehicle equipped with sonar, laser-ranging and a mass spectrometer.

Preliminarily, what we've been able to show is, at least during this year, ocean water in this region is almost two degrees warmer than it was less than 10 years ago, Britney Schmidt, a Cornell University astrobiologist and the ongoing Icefin project’s principal investigator, tells me in Reykjavik. It's crazy amounts of warming; we're losing this ice very rapidly and it’s much warmer than I would have expected; two degrees in 10 years is insane, she says.

As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back.

We don’t need more guilt. We need more power. We need bold, collective action, not individual blame.

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By the end of the century, warming of up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit is possible across the Great Lakes region under heavy use of fossil fuels.

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No mention of using the CO2 to push out more oil, which is a likely reason for wanting to put it in this location.

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UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are just some of the foods that became markedly more expensive after extreme weather events in recent years, according to new research.

The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, analyses 16 examples of food price rises across the world that followed periods of extreme heat, drought or rainfall over 2022-24.

A “striking” example, according to the lead author, is the wide-ranging price impact following a 2024 heatwave in Asia, which saw cost increases from onions in India to rice in Japan.

Soaring food prices have been a major concern for consumers around the world since around 2021, with prices rising due to extreme weather fuelled by climate change, higher production costs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – among other factors.

The new findings act as a “stark reminder” of the “significant pressure” climate change is already having on crops, a researcher not involved in the study says

I'll note the context here:

• The federal government is restricting renewables
• And also threatening to open up drilling in populated areas (with the associated health risks)
• The cost of plugging existing unplugged wells in California is likely to be only about 1/3 of the future oil industry profits in the state

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This is the latest extreme weather to hit Pakistan, which has seen intense heat waves and floods in recent years. Scientists and officials have linked these events to climate change.