The United Arab Emirates and neighboring states were rocked this week by the heaviest rains on record, which resulted in devastating floods, dozens of deaths, significant damage, and diverted flights.
A government meteorologist indicated early on that the UAE's well-known geoengineering efforts were at least partly to blame. However, now that there is a body count, the government task force responsible for cloud-seeding missions in the region is attempting to deny responsibility.
Liberal media outlets such as the Guardian and Wired and so-called experts have dutifully accepted these denials, insinuating that climate change or other factors may instead be responsible.
Cloud seeding is the controversial weather modification technique whereby aircraft, rockets, cannons, or ground generators release various chemicals and tiny particles, such as potassium chloride, into clouds in an effort to artificially increase precipitation.
Professor Ari Laaksonen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute indicated that there are two principal cloud-seeding techniques. Hygrocopic cloud seeding serves to speed up droplet coalescence in liquid clouds, "leading to production of large droplets that start to precipitate." The other technique, called glaciogenic cloud seeding, serves to "trigger ice production in supercooled clouds, leading to precipitation."
Cloud seeding not only works but has reportedly helped increase Utah's water supply by an estimated 12% in 2018.
The UAE has been conducting cloud-seeding missions for decades.
According to the Khaleej Times of Dubai, the UAE has ramped up its efforts under the UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement, managed by the Gulf state's National Center of Meteorology. This particular scheme was kicked off by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs of the UAE.
Alya Almazroui, director of the initiative, told the Khaleej Times in September, "By experimenting with various seeding approaches, we anticipate that these campaigns could lead to a more effective cloud-seeding approach and, consequently, increased rainfall in the targeted areas."
On average, the NCM reportedly conducts more than 1,000 hours of cloud-seeding missions every year, using aircraft equipped with hygroscopic flares full of nucleating agents.
It appears as though the NCM may have succeeded in its efforts at the expense of numerous lives.
ABC News Australia reported that a year's worth of rain descended on the UAE Tuesday, paralyzing Dubai and effectively closing the Dubai International Airport — the world's busiest hub for international air travel.
Extra to prompting hundreds of flights to divert course, rains fed destructive floods across the Emirates and Bahrain, killing at least 20 in Oman and one person in the UAE. Underground parking lots were flooded and metro operations were shuttered. Power was also knocked off in certain areas.
Dubai's media office acknowledged Tuesday that the downpour the UAE experienced this week was the heaviest it has experienced in 75 years.
Dr. Ahmed Habib, a meteorological specialist with the Gulf state's National Center of Meteorology, told Bloomberg that the NCM dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to "take advantage of convective cloud formations."
Bloomberg indicated that NCM flew several cloud-seeding flights prior to the downpour. The Associated Press also indicated at least one aircraft associated with the cloud-seeding initiative flew around the country on Monday.
The NCM claimed on Wednesday it had instead seeded the sky on Sunday and Monday. State media did not acknowledge earlier flights.
Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director of the NCM, later told CNBC that the agency "did not conduct any seeding operations during this event."
Habib also later changed his tune, suggesting that the six cloud-seeding flights he had previously told the press about had indeed flown missions but had not seeded any clouds.
Various so-called experts have apparently taken the NCM at its word and seized on the opportunity to instead blame climate change.
Daniel Swain, a "climate scientist" at the University of California, Los Angeles, tweeted, "Did cloud seeding play a role? (Spoiler: likely no!) But how about #ClimateChange? (Another spoiler: likely yes!)."
"When we talk about heavy rainfall, we need to talk about climate change. Focusing on cloud seeding is misleading," Friederike Otto, a supposed global warming specialist at the Imperial College of London, told the Associated Press. "Rainfall is becoming much heavier around the world as the climate warms because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture."
"Rainfall from thunderstorms, like the ones seen in UAE in recent days, sees a particular strong increase with warming. This is because convection, which is the strong updraft in thunderstorms, strengthens in a warmer world," Dim Coumou of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told Reuters.
Maarten Ambau, an atmospheric physics professor at the University of Reading, told the Guardian that "cloud seeding, certainly in the Emirates, is used for clouds that don't normally produce rain. ... You would not normally develop a very severe storm out of that."
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John Kerry, who Sara Gonzales calls “Joe Biden’s climate czar,” just made a fool out of himself again, but this time, it wasn’t due to his senseless climate fearmongering.
Over the weekend, over 70,000 delegates, including heads of state, politicians, and campaigners, met in Dubai for the annual United Nations Climate Change conference. John Kerry was one of those in attendance.
During his lecture on emissions, many speculate they heard Kerry fart.
Sara plays the clip of the moment the incident occurred.
“Avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis ...” Kerry said before a highly suspicious noise emanated from his direction.
“He definitely farted,” laughs Sara.
“I mean, somebody farted,” adds Stu Burguiere.
“Do you remember the cow flatulence tax?” asks Jaco Booyens, referencing New Zealand’s proposition to tax farmers based on the emissions of their herds, which became known as the “fart tax.”
“Tax [Kerry],” he jokes.
“If he really cared about climate change, he would hold it in; that’s all I’m saying,” says Sara.
To see the cringe-worthy moment John Kerry emits his own toxic emissions, watch the clip below.
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A Texas woman is being trapped in Dubai for allegedly breaking morality laws in the United Arab Emirates.
Tierra Young Allen, from Houston, is known online as the "Sassy Trucker." The 29-year-old social media influencer has nearly 200,000 followers on TikTok, more than 50,000 followers on Instagram, and over 40,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On her social media accounts, Allen talks about her life as a truck driver. Allen enrolled in truck driving school when she was 18, according to a 2021 CNN article.
In May, Sassy Trucker hinted that she was moving to Dubai. On TikTok, she boasted she very well be the first female truck driver in Dubai.
Allen was reportedly in a car accident in Dubai on May 16. She attempted to retrieve personal belongings from the car that was impounded, including her credit cards, debit cards, phone, and passport. However, the rental car agency allegedly prohibited her from obtaining her personal items until she paid money to the clerk.
Allen allegedly screamed at the rental car agent. She was then arrested for "screaming."
Allen is receiving assistance from Radha Stirling, CEO and founder of Detained in Dubai – an international nonprofit organization that helps "foreign victims of injustice in the United Arab Emirates."
According to CBS News, "Reports in Arabic media said the rental agency had offered to drop its case against Allen if she paid approximately $5,700."
Stirling said, "Tierra is the latest American tourist to get caught up in what is a common rental car extortion scheme. Rental car agencies are notorious for opening criminal cases against visitors with the promise to drop the case if they are paid off. The prevalence of blackmail is damaging to the UAE's tourism and investment sectors and Dubai's government needs to crack down on this abuse of process."
"She was told at the police station (Bur Dubai) that she has been accused of 'shouting,' which under the UAE's laws is illegal under 'offensive behavior,' which is an unclear and subjective regulation, but warrants up to two years in prison, a fine and deportation," Stirling told CBS News.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State told CBS News that it was aware Allen was "unable to depart Dubai," adding it was "providing all appropriate assistance."
The spokesperson said, "The Department remains in regular communication with her and her family."
The office of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told KRIV, "We have spoken to the family of Tierra Young Allen and have contacted the Department of State about the case. Sen. Cruz will continue to gather details and engage on this case until Ms. Allen is returned home to her family."
Allen must stay in Dubai while authorities decide if they want to prosecute her or not, said Stirling. She added that Allen could face up to two years in prison, deportation, and a fine.
The Houston Chronicle reported, "Even if Allen is found innocent, the court process could take six months or more, Stirling said."
Allen's mother, Tina Baxter, told NewsNation that her daughter is "definitely depressed, she's scared, she's confused – I've never seen her this depressed in her whole life."
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Elon Musk used an unlikely forum this week to protest the formation of a single global government: the "World Government Summit."
Speaking at the conference in Dubai via remote signal, Musk warned that a one-world government creates "a civilizational risk" that could result in the collapse of modern society.
"I know this is called the 'World Government Summit,' but I think we should be a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government," Musk said.
"If I may say, we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having — frankly, this may sound a little odd — too much cooperation between governments," he added.
Musk explained that throughout history civilizations have risen and fallen. But neither their rise nor their fall "meant the doom of humanity as a whole because there’ve been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances."
Specifically, Musk cited the rise of Islam in the Middle East and the simultaneous fall of the Roman Empire, probably referring to the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, which ultimately fell to the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. He observed that this separation of empires led to the preservation of knowledge and advancement of science.
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"I think we want to be a little bit cautious about being too much of a single civilization because if we are too much of a single civilization, then the whole thing may collapse," Musk went on to say.
"I'm obviously not suggesting war or anything like that. But I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much," he said. "It sounds a little odd, but we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization that the whole thing doesn't collapse and humanity keeps moving forward."
Not only does Musk believe that a one-world government threatens society and humanity, but he has previously warned that "civilization will crumble" if people do not start having more children.
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