Wish they would have explained what caused the flooding in plain terms, rather than use an emotional, over-defensive, akshyually-esque, fact-checking, tone.
>It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology...
Or if you want to be more pedantic, the cause of the flood is a failure to adapt public infrastructure to changes in rainfall intensity caused by the economic system Dubai is desperately fighting to perpetuate.
Except not really.. It couldn't have had much affect seeding the areas affected, they were not just a little flooded and another human intervention that places contaminants in the air actually causes unpredictable weather..
Journalists should not be trusted. Articles like this especially, "X isn't Y", should be treated with skepticism and profound scrutiny. If ten media outlets come out with such articles, you can fairly safely assume X is in fact Y.
Impurities trigger nucleation, i.e. the formation of droplets (or more or bigger droplets, depending on the situation), in situation where the atmospheric conditions wouldn't cause them to form otherwise, thus more rain falls.
> It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology, but the real cause of the flooding is likely more banal: Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.
Well that's a funny way to spell "human caused global climate change".
I think it’s both: climate change as the origin of the freak thunderstorm and their absolute lack of working sewers and drainage systems is the cause of all that water accumulating to the point that we all saw in photos and videos.
No not really. If rainfall events are rare enough. It is like snow. Being equipped is trivial and no challenge at all. Still many locations fail to do it.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] thread>It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology...
It's exciting? To who, you? The Bogeyman?
Or if you want to be more pedantic, the cause of the flood is a failure to adapt public infrastructure to changes in rainfall intensity caused by the economic system Dubai is desperately fighting to perpetuate.
Well that's a funny way to spell "human caused global climate change".
Isn't that more scary?
It's as scary as you'd expect from a castle in the sand