Is it any wonder?

I've just spent the last week in a workshop about cloud seeding.  You know, "making it rain"?  Turns out that it's actually possible...well, I guess not really.  The seeders can only enhance the amount of rain in an area.

Basically, they either use military canons or old airplanes and fire silver iodide into the right spot in a cloud called the inflow.  The combination of gun smoke and silver iodide allow ice crystals to form in the cloud, which get bigger and bigger until they fall and melt on the way down- in other words, rain.

Now, for states and countries that are in the midst of droughts, this sounds like a dream come true....

...until you read the history.  Turns out that the biggest areas to seed clouds are Texas and China.

AND...when we look at a map, just where are Texas and China?

Oh, right, there's on either side of the areas of the world that have the biggest Fing droughts.

Now, a lot of people are blaming global warming for these changing weather patterns, HOWEVER, I would like to point out that cloud seeding has been ramping up over the past twenty years.

Oh, wait, that rings a bell!  Isn't that how long California, Arizona, and New Mexico have been in a drought??  The same has been true of the Middle East.  

DO YOU THINK THAT THERE JUST MIGHT BE SOME CONNECTION BETWEEN AREAS NOT GETTING ENOUGH RAIN AND THE AREAS THAT ARE PULLING IT OUT OF THE AIR!?!

I mean, REALLY!  Do you REALLY think you're MAKING rain!?  NO!  You're pulling water from the atmosphere...THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH OF IT IN THE WORLD, YOU KNOW!  

(Chemists, don't get mad for me making that statement because we all know it's an on-going cycle of breaking and forming, but it's ABOUT the same)

But I digress.

JUST MAYBE, these snake oil salesmen are doing more harm than good?  DID ANYONE ever think of that?  I'm sure it must have come up in the NOAA meetings because THEY discontinued funding cloud seeding.

So, if you have the opportunity, please do pass along your thoughts to the cloud seeders- like, DUH!

The part that REALLY chaps my hide is that this water that is pulled from the air- it's not undergoing CONSERVATION.  It just rains on chemically-laden crop fields and then runs off and becomes non-potable sewer water.

I mean, SERIOUSLY!  Take some damn responsibility for your actions.  You're killing us all!