This technology didn’t cause Dubai’s floods, scientists say. Here’s why.
After nearly two years’ worth of rain flooded the Dubai region Tuesday, attention quickly shifted to cloud seeding and whether it could have been a factor in the deluge. The geoengineering technology has successfully produced rainfall over the arid United Arab Emirates in the past.
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But scientists said the downpour was a product of weather patterns that meteorological models predicted as much as a week earlier. Climate research has shown that such intense precipitation across the Arabian Peninsula could become more frequent and extreme because of warming global temperatures.
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Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who leads a research effort to explore the role of climate change in extreme weather events, called any focus on cloud seeding in the floods “misleading.
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