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World Meteorological Organization

Specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology

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Dec 18, 2025
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Which countries and states actively use cloud seeding programs in 2025?

A loose but active global cloud-seeding landscape in 2025 spans dozens of countries — led by state-scale programs in China, the UAE, India, Australia and multiple U.S. states — with the World Meteorol...

Nov 26, 2025
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Did a worldwide flood ever happen?

There is no credible scientific evidence that a single, global flood covering the entire Earth ever occurred in geological history; modern geology and paleoclimate research describe repeated regional ...

Dec 2, 2025
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Is climate change a farse

Climate change is not a “farse” in mainstream reporting: multiple scientific assessments and news organizations in 2025 describe accelerating warming, record-high temperatures and increasing climate i...

Dec 12, 2025

what are the latest global climate model forecasts for december 2025 and january 2026

Global seasonal model ensembles agree on a La Niña-influenced winter for December 2025 (NDJ/DJF) with elevated odds of above‑normal land surface temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere and...

Dec 18, 2025

How effective is cloud seeding at increasing precipitation according to peer‑reviewed studies since 2015?

Peer‑reviewed work since 2015 shows cloud seeding can give modest increases in precipitation under the right conditions — but estimates vary widely and attribution remains difficult; recent reviews an...

Dec 12, 2025

is global climate collapse coming by 2050?

There is no consensus in mainstream science that a total global “civilizational collapse” will occur by 2050; a range of credible reports project severe impacts—large income losses, mass displacement ...

Dec 16, 2025

What La Niña or El Niño conditions are forecast for Dec 2025–Jan 2026 and how will they influence North American weather?

Most operational forecasting groups in November–December 2025 favored a weak La Niña for the December 2025–February 2026 season, with probabilistic models putting La Niña chances roughly in the 50–67%...

Dec 15, 2025

how will el niño or la niña influence weather patterns in december 2025 and january 2026

Forecasters in late 2025 overwhelmingly expect a weak La Niña to influence December 2025–January 2026, with most agencies giving La Niña a better‑than‑even chance for the Dec–Feb period (roughly 53–67...

Dec 14, 2025

what regional temperature and precipitation anomalies are expected in north america for dec 2025 and jan 2026

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and other climate agencies favor a weak La Niña persisting into Dec–Feb 2025–26, with a transition to ENSO‑neutral becoming likely in January–March 2026 (CPC gives abo...

Nov 18, 2025

Is climate change so bad that the planet is going to cook itself alive in 15 years?

The planet is not forecast to "cook itself alive in 15 years," but near-term warming and impacts are accelerating: assessments project a 70% chance that the five‑year average for 2025–2029 will exceed...

Jan 20, 2026

Principal evidence for global warming

Multiple independent lines of observation—rising global surface temperatures, increasing ocean heat content, higher greenhouse‑gas concentrations and radiative forcing, shrinking ice and rising seas, ...

Jan 14, 2026

¿Tiene el vapor de agua un efecto invernadero mayor que el CO2?

El vapor de agua es el mayor contribuyente natural al efecto invernadero en la atmósfera y, medido por su capacidad de atrapar la radiación infrarroja, aporta más que el CO2 . Sin embargo, la comunida...

Jan 13, 2026

What proposals for deliberate large-scale geoengineering have been published, and how do they differ from operational cloud seeding?

Deliberate large-scale geoengineering proposals fall into two broad camps—solar radiation management (SRM) methods that try to reflect sunlight and rapidly cool the planet, and carbon dioxide removal ...

Jan 3, 2026

How much has co2 increased in the last 20 years

Measured atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen markedly over the past two decades: using a conservative, well-documented baseline of about 381 ppm in 2006 and the global-average values recorded in 2024...

Dec 19, 2025

How have past instances of unilateral weather modification or geoengineering-like experiments influenced calls for international rules?

Past unilateral experiments in weather modification — from mid‑20th century cloud‑seeding tests to covert military operations like Operation Popeye — created diplomatic alarm and legal anxiety that di...

Dec 16, 2025

What are the typical impacts of El Niño and La Niña on U.S. winter temperature anomalies?

La Niña typically tilts U.S. winter temperature anomalies colder in the northern and north‑central states and warmer/drier in the southern tier, while El Niño tends to shift warmth and wetness into th...

Dec 6, 2025

Global warming

Global warming is intensifying: 2025 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record and the past 11 years (2015–2025) are the warmest in the 176‑year observational record, with January–A...

Dec 5, 2025

What were major political and corporate responses to climate science since the 1980s?

Major political milestones since the 1980s include formation of the IPCC in 1988 and early international treaties such as the Montreal Protocol in 1987; governments have oscillated between early recog...

Nov 29, 2025

Is human activity causing global warming?

Multiple independent scientific assessments conclude that recent global warming is overwhelmingly driven by human activities — principally greenhouse‑gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, land‑use ...

Nov 25, 2025

Are Global Warming alarmists biased?

Claims that “global warming alarmists” are broadly biased appear regularly in opinion blogs and partisan outlets, while mainstream scientific and intergovernmental reports document accelerating warmin...