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cloud seeding

4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2026 by Dacia Leone · across every show →

Everything said about cloud seeding, oldest first

May 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Cloud seeding cannot scale to daily use with silver iodide
“We want to scale it like irrigation is used today in agriculture, at least in the U.S., and in order to do that, we want to have an agent that, that degrades in the environment, that goes away in the environment, and cloud seeding can't scale with silver iodid…”
Dacia Leone May 20, 2026 ▶ 31:28 How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
May 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cloud seeding industry is shifting to drone delivery systems
“So today, cloud heating is done with generators on the ground and generally with aircraft, but there is a big movement right now to switch up that hardware and use drones instead.”
Dacia Leone May 20, 2026 ▶ 29:04 How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
May 20, 2026
Assertion Supported
Around 60 countries conduct cloud seeding, led by China
“Internationally, there's around 60 countries that do some form of cloud seeding. China is the leader, and they've been doing cloud seeding for a very, very long time, but generally speaking, it's not done very much today.”
Dacia Leone May 20, 2026 ▶ 30:35 How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
May 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
US federal ban on cloud seeding is highly unlikely
“I think that a blanket federal mandate to ban cloud seeding or weather mod is highly unlikely.”
Dacia Leone May 20, 2026 ▶ 35:57 How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
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