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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Apparently Weather Modification IS a thing
This week torrential rainfall in Oman and the UAE resulted in some of the worst flooding those countries have ever seen.
Why? Well climate change, duh. But not just climate change…
Climate change and cloud seeding ‘exacerbated’ deadly flooding in Gulf countries
Cloud seeding too. Cloud seeding is the practice of spraying chemicals – usually silver or potassium iodide – into the atmosphere to bond with fine water vapour and cause heavier droplets, which then fall as rain.
So, planes were flying over Dubai and Abu Dhabi spraying chemicals, they must have been…and yet anybody who saw them doing so, and said that’s what they were doing would have been branded a crazy conspiracy theorist.
After all, “chemtrails” are just a paranoid conspiracy theory.
Obviously, cloud seeding, stratospheric aerosol injection and other forms of weather manipulation don’t count.
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