> But there has been a rapid rise recently, coinciding with extreme weather in Spain. A severe drought has shrunk water levels to alarming lows, exacerbated by record-breaking April temperatures.
Yes, lets blame the messenger :(
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#12Here's video of a typical smaller cloud seeding aircraft.
CNN isn't helping anyone by talking about 'conspiracy theories' and claiming
'.... In Spain’s case, much of the 'trolling' revolves around the rehashing of an old conspiracy theory: so-called “chemtrails.”
'Under many of the agency’s Twitter posts, especially those that refer to more extreme weather, users have posted images of blue skies, crisscrossed with wispy, white trails. They falsely claim the trails contain a cocktail of chemicals to artificially manipulate the weather – keeping rain away and causing climate change.
It’s a theory roundly rejected by scientists'.
One of the reasons CNN is a failed, irresponsible media company '(when it launched as a lightweight cable version of the vapid USA Today tabloid and was nicknamed 'chicken noodle news') is this type of dismissive, sloppy article that dismisses people's concerns.
Anytime I see the phrase 'conpiracy theory' I usually just skim and move on.
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What are meteorologists lying about?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are positing that the UN weather agency is manufacturing abusive tweets towards meteorologist, who they ostensibly represent, to give western countries an excuse to refuse sharing weather data with countries they don't like? ...That doesn't make any sense. Among other things, the article doesn't mention tweets are coming from specific countries, in fact the context seems more local.
> UN weather agency is manufacturing abusive tweets what? I said nothing like that. please show everyone where I said anyone manufactured any "tweets"
> Is this at all related to the ongoing negotiations at the World Meteorological Organization over access to data?
To me, questioning if it is "related" implies intent, and "trying" implies an active subversive effort.
But if you really mean this is all just a coincidental situation for the WMO to take advantage of... that still doesn't make any sense, because the tweets aren't from a specific country.
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#15Here's video of a typical smaller cloud seeding aircraft. https://youtu.be/nwonVY_cNS4 CNN isn't helping anyone by talking about 'conspiracy theories' and claiming '.... In Spain’s case, much of the 'trolling' revolves around the rehashing of an old conspiracy theory: so-called “chemtrails.” 'Under many of the agency’s Twitter posts, especially those that refer to more extreme weather, users have posted images of blu…
Rain seeding is a thing of course.
But that's different to contrails which are what conspiracy theorists point to as their "chemtrails"!
It should be noted that rain seeding is realistically rarely used.
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#17Here's video of a typical smaller cloud seeding aircraft. https://youtu.be/nwonVY_cNS4 CNN isn't helping anyone by talking about 'conspiracy theories' and claiming '.... In Spain’s case, much of the 'trolling' revolves around the rehashing of an old conspiracy theory: so-called “chemtrails.” 'Under many of the agency’s Twitter posts, especially those that refer to more extreme weather, users have posted images of blu…
I wouldn't go that far, but their wording in the article rather of poor and dismissive.
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#19Here's video of a typical smaller cloud seeding aircraft. https://youtu.be/nwonVY_cNS4 CNN isn't helping anyone by talking about 'conspiracy theories' and claiming '.... In Spain’s case, much of the 'trolling' revolves around the rehashing of an old conspiracy theory: so-called “chemtrails.” 'Under many of the agency’s Twitter posts, especially those that refer to more extreme weather, users have posted images of blu…
> Anytime I see the phrase 'conpiracy theory' I usually just skim and move on.
Same here.There is basically no honesty left in most media. You'll have read multiple sides on specialized topics. Not worth the time needed anyway.
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