{"id":319043,"date":"2024-04-19T13:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=319043"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:18:01","slug":"the-billmckibben-integrity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=319043","title":{"rendered":"The @billmckibben Integrity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"380\" data-attachment-id=\"319046\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=319046\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?fit=1200%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?fit=723%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?resize=723%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill McKibben<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/04\/17\/the-billmckibben-integrity-test\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost without fail every time there is some oddball or unique weather event, climate alarmists immediately rushed to blame it on climate change whether or not there\u2019s any facts to support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such is the case with Uber alarmist bill McKinnon founder of 350 dot org as well as \u201cthird act\u201d and a supporter of a whole host of other rabble rouser organizations who erroneously and irrationally think climate change is going to kill us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Bill put his foot in his mouth, bigtime, as you can see in the featured image above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His original Tweet and my reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmckibben?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@billmckibben<\/a> once again, as usual, you&#39;re WRONG. &quot;Climate change&quot; had nothing to do with it. A cloud seeding experiment gone overboard was the cause: NCM: \u201cWhenever there are clouds in the sky, we conduct cloud seeding operations. From yesterday till today [Tuesday\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wattsupwiththat\/status\/1780619327387095471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via New York Post:<br><br>Multiple reports, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-04-16\/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>, cited meteorologists at the country\u2019s National Center for Meteorology saying the agency had flown six or seven cloud seeding flights in the lead-up to the storm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearly, Bill is in the wrong. The question is, does he have enough integrity to tweet out to his supporters that he was wrong? That climate change had no role in this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/faqs\/what-difference-between-weather-and-climate-change#:~:text=Weather%20refers%20to%20short%20term,refers%20to%20long%2Dterm%20changes.\">weather, not climate<\/a>, event?<br><br>Inquiring minds want to know.<br><br>Here is the backstory via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsable.asianetnews.com\/world\/dubai-floods-explained-is-cloud-seeding-to-blame-for-submerging-desert-city-snt-sc2m9h\">Newsable<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the 1990s, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been actively engaged in cloud seeding efforts, overseen by the National Center of Meteorology (NCM). This government agency manages the country\u2019s Rain Enhancement Program, utilizing a network of numerous weather stations to closely monitor atmospheric conditions for seeding operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeding aircraft are deployed into clouds identified as most conducive to precipitation, where they release seeding agents to stimulate rainfall. Recent field campaigns conducted last fall involved experimenting with three distinct approaches: Nanomaterial Seeding, Large Salt Particle Seeding, and Conventional Hygroscopic Flares, as reported by the Emirates News Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahmed Habib, a specialist meteorologist at NCM, revealed to Bloomberg that seeding planes conducted seven missions over two days leading up to the heavy rainfall that inundated parts of the desert nation. While some attributed the rare event, described as a once-in-a-century occurrence, to the weather modification technique, it\u2019s essential to consider other atmospheric factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with GRAZIA Middle East,&nbsp;a meteorology expert from the NCM, was quoted as saying, \u201cWhenever there are clouds in the sky, we conduct cloud seeding operations. From yesterday till today [Tuesday afternoon], we carried out six trips.&nbsp;There is a significant decrease in temperatures today and on Wednesday, it\u2019s a drop of around 10 degrees Celsius.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli also noted that the air was saturated with an excessive amount of desert dust when the intense rainfall occurred over Dubai. This dust, acting as a natural cloud-seeding agent, raises questions about whether man-made seeding alone can be held accountable for the deluge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost without fail every time there is some oddball or unique weather event, climate alarmists immediately rushed to blame it on climate change whether or not there\u2019s any facts to support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":319046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821050,691818721,691818056,691818473],"class_list":{"0":"post-319043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bill-mckibben","9":"tag-climate-alarmists","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-weather","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0140920-bill-mckibben-cover-1521.webp?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1kZR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348685,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348685","url_meta":{"origin":319043,"position":0},"title":"No, Bloomberg, Climate is Not \u201cKilling Buildings\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An October 21 article in Bloomberg claims that Climate Change is Killing Buildings in Slow Motion. 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