Did Cloud Seeding Cause Deadly Australian Floods? Experts Say No
Experts said that the floods in Australia were naturally occurring and cloud seeding cannot cause flooding.
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Experts said that the floods in Australia were naturally occurring and cloud seeding cannot cause flooding.
An Australian aviation company says it has received more than 100 threats following an online conspiracy theory that its pilots unleashed a flooding disaster by cloud seeding. Conspiracy theorists spread the false claims after weeks of torrential rains led to deadly east coast floods over the past two months, engulfing…
Fake news on the Internet said they caused disaster by cloud seeding. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
Handel Aviation operator Mark Handel told AFP that the company does not seed clouds.
As floods swept away homes and cars in Australia, online rumors claimed an aviation company documenting the damage was dropping chemicals to "activate rain."