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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 ...

Jan 26, 2026
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How do mainstream scientists and institutions evaluate the claims from GeoEngineeringWatch.org?

Mainstream scientists and established institutions evaluate ’s central claims—secret large‑scale “chemtrail” operations and covert climate engineering causing widespread ecological harm—as unsupported...

Jan 29, 2026

What evidence exists about China’s large weather‑modification program and its environmental impacts?

runs one of the world’s largest, state-led weather‑modification efforts aimed at boosting precipitation, preventing hail and mitigating disasters, a program has expanded to millions of square kilometr...

Dec 2, 2025

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...

Jan 31, 2026

https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/10/global-warming-statistics/

The public record for shows an unmistakable spike: multiple independent datasets and monitoring services report 2024 as the warmest year on record, with several records placing the global mean near or...

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...

Feb 3, 2026

What's going on with global warming

is not an abstract future risk but an accelerating, measurable reality: the past three years rank among the hottest on record and scientists warn 2026 is likely to be one of the four warmest years eve...

Feb 2, 2026

Which year was the hottest on record globally and by how much did it exceed the average?

Global climate monitoring agencies now point to on instrumental record, and it exceeded long-standing baselines by more than a degree Celsius—though the exact number depends on the dataset and the ref...

Feb 2, 2026

How do regional hottest-year records compare to the global top 10?

Global datasets agree that the past three years are the —2024, 2023 and 2025—placing 2025 typically as the third-warmest year globally, with small differences among analyses ( puts 2025 0.01°C cooler ...

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...