NEWS HEADLINES: Cloud Seeding CEO Speaks Out * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Glenn Beck:

Augustus Dorrico is with us. He is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker. Uh, this is a cloud seeding, uh, uh, company. Welcome, Augustus. How are you?

Augustus Dorrico:

Hi, Glenn. I’m, uh, I’m blessed. Um, I appreciate you having me here. And again, still my heart and prayers go out to all the people of Texas. I’m, I’m here in Dallas now, actually. Um, and though we didn’t have anything to do with the flooding, um, I, I still am praying for everybody affected by it.

Glenn Beck:

It has got to be pretty disturbing, um, for you to hear that you are being blamed, uh, for, you know, cloud seeding. And knowing science, I, I have to tell you, I don’t know much about cloud seeding.

Um, it, it bothers me what I see over in England, but I, again, haven’t taken the time to really look into it. So explain what cloud seeding does and how you know you didn’t have anything to do with that.

Augustus Dorrico:

Yeah. I, I can also explain to you what cloud seeding does and what cloud seeding is not, right? ‘Cause you’re referencing—

Glenn Beck:

Okay.

Augustus Dorrico:

—something from England that we can talk about in a second. So cloud seeding—

Glenn Beck:

Okay.

Augustus Dorrico:

—is a technology developed in the United States in the 1940s to increase water supply for farms, for ecosystem conservation, for reservoirs, for residences, and also our industries.

It relies on identifying liquid in clouds and then releasing particulate, specifically silver iodide, into those clouds that the water freezes onto into big snowflakes, and then become heavy enough to fall as rain.

Cloud seeding has been going on in the United States for decades. Um, it, again, is paid for by farmers and utilities and government entities that want more water for their constituents.

Glenn Beck:

Okay. Wait, hang on just a second. So I, I, I live up in the high desert in the summer, and I have a farm and a ranch, and we pray for rain every year ’cause it’s h— we’re, but we’re in the high desert. It wouldn’t work here because we don’t have the clouds, right?

Augustus Dorrico:

So first of all, I think you should keep praying for rain. Um, I’m grateful—

Glenn Beck:

Right.

Augustus Dorrico:

—to have gotten saved when I was 20 years old and baptized in Dallas, actually. Um, I think that, like, this is all God’s world and it’s our responsibility to steward it, right?

Glenn Beck:

Right.

Augustus Dorrico:

And insofar as we can help make more water for people and ecosystems here, that’s my primary interest.

Just because you’re in the high desert doesn’t mean that you can’t have cloud seeding. If there aren’t clouds, then you can’t make it rain more. But sometimes there are.

And also, the aquifers nearby are recharged from cloudier regions not so far away. And so you, you can actually benefit from programs nearby as well.

Glenn Beck:

Okay.

Augustus Dorrico:

Now to, to clarify, cloud seeding, uh, the best operations we’ve ever seen from either Rainmaker’s own work or the National Center for Atmospheric Research or other institutions can produce tens of millions of gallons of precipitation distributed over hundreds of square miles over the course of about an hour or 2.

Um, the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry that blew in and caused the flooding, uh, that storm dumped trillions of gallons. It’s about a million times less than what the biggest and best cloud seeding operations can do right now.

Now that said as well, when you reference England, right? Cloud seeding is not solar radiation modification nor is it chemtrails, right?

Solar radiation modification is a real technology that people are investigating and developing and increasingly deploying to release reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to cool down the planet, to dim the sun and cool the planet down.

Glenn Beck:

That although it is also in the atmosphere, I think that it’s something that deserves a ton of scrutiny.

Augustus Dorrico:

Totally agree.

Glenn Beck:

Yeah, I think so too.

Augustus Dorrico:

Yeah. But cloud seeding has nothing to do with that. Cloud seeding requires existing puffy clouds full of water to be there in order to make them precipitate a little bit more.

Now, if you see a long streak in the sky behind an airplane, that also is not cloud seeding. Whether that’s a natural contrail or a chemtrail, I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that chemtrails are malevolently, malevolently being put down by the government or some other nefarious party.

But regardless of which it is, a chemtrail or a contrail, it has nothing to do with cloud seeding either, because producing clouds is not what cloud seeding does.

Cloud seeding relies on existing clouds to make them rain more. And those long streaks in the sky, those are mostly ice.

There’s not enough water in them to seed in the first place, and they’re also like 20,000 feet higher in the atmosphere than where all of our cloud seeding operations take place.

Glenn Beck:

Okay. So you went out, what day? Uh, Thursday? And cloud seeded in Texas?

Augustus Dorrico:

July 2nd, we flew, uh, about a 20-minute flight, um, where we seeded 2 clouds, 2 small clouds with about 70 grams worth of silver iodide.

That’s about 10 Skittles worth of material.

Glenn Beck:

And those clouds dissipated—

Augustus Dorrico:

About 2 hours after the event.

Glenn Beck:

Any rain?

Augustus Dorrico:

Uh, yeah. Um, and they dissipated and they don’t remain up in the atmosphere, right?

The, the, the clouds—

Glenn Beck:

The Skittles.

Augustus Dorrico:

Is one the, the the Skittles of material. Um, they could not have stayed suspended in the atmosphere, uh—

Glenn Beck:

Okay.

Augustus Dorrico:

—by the time that the flooding started happening.

Glenn Beck:

Okay. And then the flood, that was a storm that rolls in and was not part of the system that you seeded, correct?

Augustus Dorrico:

Correct.

Augustus Dorrico:

And also it’s worth noting that, you know, a lot of people have said, “Well, this shouldn’t go on without any oversight.” And I totally agree, and I think that there should be even more regulatory scrutiny and oversight and reporting requirements so that these operations are totally transparent.

But there actually are regulations in Texas through the Texas, uh, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation that have suspension criteria. And suspension criteria are these meteorological conditions, these weather conditions, these issuances and notifications from the National Weather Service that say, “Hey, if there is a flash flood warning, if the soil is already too saturated, cloud seeding would cause any flooding, you have to suspend operations.”

And not only did we suspend operations in adherence with the regulations from the State of Texas, but we actually, because our meteorologists were very proactive, suspended operations a day in advance of any warnings that would have regulatorily mandated us to.

Because we at Rainmaker earnestly believe that, like, this is God’s kingdom to steward, and it is our job to do no harm and do as much good as we can.

And so if we can bias towards being cautious, um, not so cautious that we ban this technology and prevent farmers from having water from it, but if we can be cautious in our operations such that we mitigate any potential for any damage, which we did and do, um, I’m, I’m all for that.

That’s what everybody’s opinion is at my company.

Glenn Beck:

So, I know China is doing cloud seeding up in the mountains, um, to get much more snow up in the mountains so then they have the water, the, the runoff, et cetera, et cetera. Um, are they ahead of us? Is this what we’re doing? Is it the same thing?

Augustus Dorrico:

Um, so China—
Uh, just for context, the United States a year ago spent $2.4 million on cloud seeding research, right, to investigate how to produce more water for American farms, to save the Colorado River, to refill our aquifers, right?

Um, $2.4 million total, and that was a one-off.
China has an annual budget of $1.4 billion for—

Glenn Beck:

Oh, my gosh.

Augustus Dorrico:

—cloud seeding and weather modification. They have 35,000 employees in their weather modification office. They have 2 universities that offer bachelor’s degrees in weather engineering. Not meteorology, not atmospheric science, but specifically how to engineer the weather.

And if the United States bans this technology wholesale, if we don’t regulate it and monitor where it’s going on so that we have a transparent account of the activities, not only will we be behind China, but we won’t have regulatory statutes or the capability to moni— monitor who is modifying the weather in the United States and otherwise.

Glenn Beck:

Okay. So, so tell me the difference between weather modification, which sounds scary, and cloud ski— seeding.

Augustus Dorrico:

Totally, totally. I, I think the, the bigger distinction to make is between weather modification, which cloud seeding is a kind of, and geoengineering, right?

So, so cloud seeding is a way to make more water, right?
You are modifying the weather by making it rain or snow a little bit more.

Geoengineering is a global climatic intervention designed to either cool the planet down or create, you know, reflective high-altitude clouds. And that has, again, nothing to do with cloud seeding, which is a form of weather modification.

And to your point about it sounding scary, right? I could try to do some sort of slimy PR thing and say like, “Oh, cloud seeding is not weather modification.” But the fact of the matter is, like, making it precipitate a little bit more is modifying the weather.

Um, and I think that I would rather be totally transparent about that and also say, like, it’s something that we should regulate, and it’s something that we should be cautious about, and we should approach it with a mindset of stewardship.

But still, if we were to ban it wholesale, not only would we deprive Americans of having access to more water from it, but also, we’d be liable to other countries continuing to do it without—

Glenn Beck:

So, you remember the big hurricane that happened, uh, and we were hit by 2. One came and hit Florida, and then the other one came barreling into, uh, North Carolina up from Florida.

And people said, “Well, that was weather modification. That, that was, that, that—They cloud seeded that, and they, uh, modified that, and they even steered that.”

I never believed any of that stuff, but can it be done? Can that be done?

Augustus Dorrico:

Um, no, no. It, it, at this point in time, cannot be done.
The modification of a hurricane such that would either increase or reduce the winds, increase or reduce the damage done by it, um, that is not something that is doable.

Now, that being said, it’s worth talking about something called Project Stormfury, where, in the last century, the United States Weather Bureau and Air Force conducted flights over the Atlantic to try to seed hurricanes to mitigate the damage that they would do by the time they broke against the eastern seaboard.

And we stopped that program because we didn’t have what’s called attribution, right?
We didn’t have the right radar. We didn’t have any good satellites to measure what the effect from the seeding was.

The reason why cloud seeding is coming back into the discourse now, why it’s a viable technology that people are paying for, is because we can measure what the results of our operations are.

And I would say that although Milton and Helene, I’ve seen no evidence of having been modified and I’m totally open-minded about that, and if anybody does have it, I would happily scrutinize it and talk about it.

But despite not believing those to be modified, um, it is worth thinking about the fact that, you know, like at the beginning of time in, in Genesis 1:26–28, one of the first commandments we were given before the fall, while we were still in the garden, right, before sin, God told us to take dominion over and steward the earth, the seas, the skies and everything therein.

And so should we now be concerned about making more water for our farms? Absolutely.

Should we at least consider a potential world with extreme caution, and again, a mindset of like prayerful stewardship, the notion that we could mitigate severe weather in the future?

I, I think that it would be abdicating our responsibility to try to tend to the world that God gave us if we didn’t at least think about it.
And I am not advocating we do that now or anytime soon, or without severe scrutiny from the federal government and transparency for everybody.

But, um, it’s, it’s something that may at some point in the future be able to benefit f—folks.

Glenn Beck:

Yeah. I, I mean, I, I, I don’t mind looking into technology. I just wish we would slow down sometimes, you know, with, with what’s happening with AI, we’ve seen the damage that, that social media did.

Now we’re going into AI and it’s coming at us faster and we have no idea what it’s gonna do.
You know, when, when you’re throwing stuff up, you know, whether it’s chemtrails or wha—whatever, I don’t know enough about it, but I sure would like to be in part of the discussion on some of these things.

I’d like to have our government say, “Hey, uh, what do you think? Are we gonna do this or not?” And leave it up to the people.

We’re, we’re talking about doing some things to the planet that, you know, might be good, but also could be horrible. And I, you know, I just—The arrogance on some of this stuff really bothers me.

Augustus, thank you so much for, um, having a frank conversation with us. Um, I pray for you and your family and all the coworkers, uh, at Rainmaker who, uh, I know feel, uh, because, you know, it’s obvious you feel for the families, et cetera, et cetera.

But now to be blamed for it, uh, is, is—It’s gotta be hard. It’s gotta be hard.

Augustus Dorrico:

Thank you, Glenn.