Augustus Doricko

If it's cold, stay as snow.

And so, if you just blast a cloud, right,

That isn't, and then it rains.

That isn't necessarily proof that you caused it to rain, right?

Like maybe you're just good at picking clouds that were going to rain anyway.

And so nobody could really justify doing this at scale up until 2017.

And what changed then was the National Center of Atmospheric Research, an organization called NCAR out in Colorado.

They realized if you have the right wavelength of radar

of dual polarization radar, which I'll talk about again in a sec too.

But if you have the right kind of radar and you fly in a zigzag, or in a circle, or in your initials, and you only see precipitation on the radar in your flight track,

then you can say, oh, that is definitively manmade because we flew in this zigzag or we flew in this spiral and there's only precipitation occurring in that shape.

They did that in Idaho in 2017 multiple times.

And that was the very first time that people were able to show, one, that it was unambiguously working, and two, that they can measure how much water they put on the ground.

And so most folks, even in the scientific community, are still catching up to speed with this tech.

The regulatory community, some people know about it, think it's cool.

Some people think that it doesn't exist.

Some people don't know the difference between cloud seeding and geoengineering and a bunch of other stuff.

I'm in that category.

We'll talk about that then.

Yeah, let's.