Desert greening works! I watch this type of content on RUclips all the time ☺️ It just has to be done right. You can’t just plant miles of the same type of plant. Different systems have to work in unison.
Assuming they would have and not just evaporated... I can't imagine it will make a huge difference given that countries like the UAE and Australia struggle with getting rainfall where they need it.
@@OneIdeaTooMany Let's consider other countries. Like, if historically water ends up producing rain in one country or region, but on the way another country takes out those clouds, then water isn't reaching where it usually would. Of course, you just can't say what the impact might be without suitable models and historical data. But if we go the direction of engineering the weather, there's an even chance that it'd require coordination across counties. Similar to how one country blocking rivers that happen to pass through their territory can become a problem for where that water historically went.
There have been reports that regions surrounding one that practices cloud seeding see less rainfall. Mankind's arrogance has them thinking they're creating moisture. They're not. They're just robbing it from elsewhere.
@@OneIdeaTooManyAustralia and the UAE aren’t really comparable though are they? Australia is an enormous country and continent, with dozens of different climate and ecological zones. The UAE is a tiny country that is and always was, desert. UAE cloud seeding is forcing an unnatural occurrence for increased rainfall in the desert, when those clouds would have dropped the rain somewhere else completely different.
A lot of reporting these days are just marketing videos. The industry lobbying groups would spend the money to "do all the investigative research" then send it to journalists/reporters. Journalists/reporters only have to write the script, go to location, and shoot.
The question that stands to mind is how much carbon dioxide was emitted to produce such beautiful environments? Do these greenlands actually suck CO2 if you consider all the building, solar panels production, fertilization, transportation, on the equation? And what are the consequences to global climate if you use cloud engineering ? Those are topics i haven't seen anyone talk about...
No one talks about them because it’s not important to their agenda. The truth is that when you combine all these industrial processes to simulate the effect of nature to your benefit, there is an inherent net negative effect on the environment. It further disrupts the already tragic equilibrium of nature we currently have.
Slowly but surely yes. Remember the area is a desert... so C02 emissions are already high, by starting to make these green areas, they are alreay starting to combat the areas
better to water in the early morning starting just after sunrise and before the heat of the day. Plants need sunlight to photosynthesize so irrigation over night allows more time for water to evaporate and ends up wasting water.
They literally have unlimited salt in their sea. Using that salt, they can cloud seed so that there'll be rains. And waters will make the desert becoming greens and more liveable. So, it's actually a very great solution and a win-win solution. ❣
They don't use salt NaCl........they use some type of salt .....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation....)
Except the countries who would historically have received that rainfall are now not going to, purely so the UAE has a nice attraction for tourism. Deserts themselves are a unique ecosystem, and given UAE and virtually all of the Arabian peninsula has been desert for thousands of years, this is essentially environmental terrorism. They’re destroying an ecosystem, they aren’t reversing desertification like the great green walls in China and across North Africa.
The trees are watered with desalinated seawater, which has a very detrimental environmental impact. The trees that are planted aren't drought resistant species either. Instead of laying artificial grass, huge water thirsty lawns are planted that require near constant irrigation in summer. Since cloudseeding started, the rain hasn't increased but the fog, which provides moisture for the survival of desert plants and wildlife, has deteriorated. There is too much interference. One can PR it as much as you want to. The system isn't optimal. For it to work effectively, wiser decisions need to be made
@@ghost91977 Go visit Dubai, NOT A SINGLE SOLAR PANEL in sight.. Reason; the sun fries the wiring and causes the panels to malfunction... (Ironicaly, it's too hot to work optimally)
The money from oil funds water desalination, the water desalinated helps regreen the desert, and using a lot of this desalinated water helps reduce the sea level rising because of global warming.
@@michaelmatisse2808 You do realize that's the DUMBEST idea you can do right?! At the very least use a nuclear power plant this way you don't stress the environment! If you ever lived near an oil processing plant, I can tell you the whole area stinks like a fart! Side note, you can't "green" a hot desert! Using a finite energy source to create drinking water! Side note, desalinated water does NOT contain natural minerals... And what are you going to do with the brine?! Your design isn't circular... Israel tried it on a small scale and nearly depleted the Sea of Galilea! This isn't a "high" desert like in Ethiopia or in some places of Colorado!
I lived in the UAE for the first 30 years of my life and now live in Ireland. And I can’t stress this enough, do not wish for this. It is bad, really bad. Ireland is heaven on earth (the weather). Lush green, rainy, cold weather > dry, soul crushing heat, dusty.
We have more than enough rain here in Norway too. Sometimes I wonder if "someone" is manipulating the weather and giving us more rain than we would get naturally to fill the reservoirs that produce power and thus money.
They are not following the SIMPLE principles of the water cycle: evaporation = condensation/clouds=rain Apply permaculture principles to slow and capture rain within the landscape so can then have enough subsoil water to support plants that TRANSPIRE, evaporate water from their leaves, which feeds into the natural water cycle. Also vital to increasing water efficiency, recycle 100% of used water as nature does, and include more green roofs and spaces to further the cycle while reducing the tendency of urban areas to elevate temperatures in a heat island effect.
Edit: The city of Las Vegas uses huge amount of water,sometimes just to entertain, in what is a very dry region Las vegas uses up to 629 litres of water per person per day (P.S) just now checked it wasn't LA it was las vegas Source: Question it by Philip Steele
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." -- Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV)
That's impressive! Combatting desertification is crucial, especially in regions facing water scarcity. It's inspiring to see countries like the UAE and China taking steps to green their landscapes and mitigate the impacts of arid conditions
There is one problem...cloud seeding doesn't just effect the area you're doing the cloud seeding. Cloud seeding may work well for the UAE but could cause droughts in other parts of the world or can cause more rain in other areas of the world that don't need more rain
Also UAE's attempts to reverse desertification by reforesting its barren landscapes are admirable, particularly in light of the region's problems with water constraint. Seeing other nations, like China, addressing environmental challenges with comparable steps is encouraging.
You can not use the term desertification so loosely. You can not have desertification in a place that has already been a desert for hundreds of years if not for Millenniums like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. You can use the term desertification for countries and region that have a reasonable amount of vegetation like Mexico or South Africa.
Don't forget it was Dubai that built those stupid islands in the shape of palm trees (dredging up coral reefs in the process). Built a city without planning and building a central water treatment system. And chose an American model of suburban planning when they could have taken the best ideas from anywhere in the World.
@@daniel11111 Not really, only one has been finished, they've caused problems along the rest of the Dubai coast because of changed currents. And they caused huge environmental destruction - most countries are at pains to preserve their coral reefs and oyster beds - Dubai built over theirs.
@@MalcolmRose-l3b that one island brings in more revenue than your corrupt politicians can envision.And talking about environmental impacts, western nations with comparable per capita emissions should be the last one talking,
Greening deserts is a great way to absorb CO2 and create oxygen, plus all the economic benefits you explained. Unluckily it is not a silver bullet, as it has also a negative effect: trees attract more sun energy (and thus heat) than deserts, as they are "darker" than sand. Scientific studies show how greening the entire Sahara would actually INCREASE global temperature.
@@Lock2002ful meaning once there are enough trees planted, it will generate localised rainfall, hence naturally allowing the forest to grow without anymore man-made intervention, hence it's not as though you'll need to replant the entire thing
@@HKspurs10 Ahh, ok. Thank you! What do you think about what the OP said concerning increasing global temperature should, for example, the whole of the Sahara become green. I don’t know about that but then again I’m no scientist.
Another method of greenery enhancement in torrid regions is the national organic waste management must be dumped in selected areas where the point of greenery cultivation is practice , and the application of earthworms on thickly plant's populated areas is amust to let the soil retain more moistures by the aid of these earthworms and other helpful soil activators
UAE Floods caused by Cloud seeding project. Cloud seeding increases floods, dryness, droughts, deserts, extreme weather, and climate change. We need to actively undertake projects to green deserts, increase forests, and conserve forests so that natural rain can fall all over the world.
Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) prophesied that arabia will turn green. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers. [Source: Sahih Muslim 157c]
What if India could export it's babool and kikar plant saplings to UAE then may be it would help the Arab Sheikhs in speeding up the fight against desertification.
Cloud seeding in the uae would be a useless waste of money. They don’t have the topography to induce rain. Ie: there are very few mountains to bring in precipitation. All the seeding would do is improve rainfall across the gulf in Iran.
Great but too bad they didnt opt for landscaping for water recharge, tree planting, grasses, shrubs, rewilding. Possible using traditional desert community designs like ellipticals, crescent shaped water collection systems that creates shade, erosion control, vegetative diversity, water sustenance that protects nature and environment. Exploiting technology alone is not sustainable and environmental disastrous.
Hmm? Whilst we need to replace the greenery we've destroyed, I wonder if undertaking the task in this way is best. Two thoughts: i) what are the unintended consequences (and there will be some) of cloud seeding? Where would the water have gone had it not been encouraged to consolidate into a cloud? ii) Is there any consideration of the albedo effect? My third thought - Why should I trust anything in this report when it appears to be in wholehearted support of nations which think nothing of building 'white elephants' (the Palm and 'World resorts), at great environmental cost (I don't just mean ecosystem disruption, there's also the fossil fuel energy expended) and the journalist at no point makes any challenging comment or counter argument. Rather, she appears to simply accept what she's told. We saw plenty of footage of plants in a nursery but little in the way of actual mature bushes and trees insitu. I also wondered why, given what is known about evaporation and temperature, were plants being watered during daylight hours?
The smarter question would be..Should you turn desserts into forests??????...don't mess with mother natüre !!!we all love the way we look...especially her...shes gorgeous ...
Is there recent evidence that cloud seeding works? It will be fantastic if people can control rainfall, to make it happen over dryer places and land areas, rather than even more rainfall on already wet areas and oceans. But last I checked there's no evidence of its effectiveness.
There is , I am living in UAE. Every once in a while they announce cloud seeding and then it actually rains even during summer. They do it during the weekends
If Emirates is to survive in future it has to find a way fo change the desert back to green land. Such artifical rains will occur more as weather changes rapidly in the future. Fhey need to find a way to get this excess water to the ground, thus increasing ground water.
“your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” Turning deserts green certainly brings benefits to locals, but it may diminish the earth’s albedo, its ability to reflect light and heat. Therefore it might cause earth’s temperature to raise more, than the captured co2 would have. Geoengineering is a difficult task
If the desert is being rained on, what other countries are going to suffer. What countries are milling out? The clouds are sailing past other countries that they used to drop rain on.
What always amazed me is the Congo river of Africa which flows towards Atlantic ocean with massive flows capacity. If this river diverted towards Sahara Desert which is largest desert in world, you can imagine trillions of trees will be planted, so the whole world will benefit that co2 level will drop!
@@bereketkiflejibicho3015 Yea I heard they have come up with a plan called The Great Wall of Sahel or something.. in which they plant trees from western tip to eastern tip of African Continent to form a defensive line of vegetation. Don't know what happened to the project though..
Better to form a natural sustainable eco system that will hold and attract water!! Hope they do not pump saline water back into the sea from desalination!
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Anybody else here after watching the flood videos this morning from them getting a year worth of rain in one day?
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Desert greening works! I watch this type of content on RUclips all the time ☺️ It just has to be done right. You can’t just plant miles of the same type of plant. Different systems have to work in unison.
I also like to watch these type of videos 😊
I’m fascinated and it looks like I’ll be joining you in watching more videos about this!
this is not without consequence,clouds seeding 😂,
U think u are smart than export........ How arrogant u r
Wonder how this impacts the normal flow of water in the world and where those clouds would naturally have ended up producing rain.
That was my immediate thought too.
Assuming they would have and not just evaporated... I can't imagine it will make a huge difference given that countries like the UAE and Australia struggle with getting rainfall where they need it.
@@OneIdeaTooMany Let's consider other countries.
Like, if historically water ends up producing rain in one country or region, but on the way another country takes out those clouds, then water isn't reaching where it usually would.
Of course, you just can't say what the impact might be without suitable models and historical data.
But if we go the direction of engineering the weather, there's an even chance that it'd require coordination across counties.
Similar to how one country blocking rivers that happen to pass through their territory can become a problem for where that water historically went.
There have been reports that regions surrounding one that practices cloud seeding see less rainfall. Mankind's arrogance has them thinking they're creating moisture. They're not. They're just robbing it from elsewhere.
@@OneIdeaTooManyAustralia and the UAE aren’t really comparable though are they? Australia is an enormous country and continent, with dozens of different climate and ecological zones. The UAE is a tiny country that is and always was, desert. UAE cloud seeding is forcing an unnatural occurrence for increased rainfall in the desert, when those clouds would have dropped the rain somewhere else completely different.
Who’s here as Dubai is turning into a lake?
Feels a lot like a marketing video than a doc.
Exactly. A sort of 'We're trying hard, really we are' apology for their embarrassment at COP28
That's what I also thought. They don't show any actual result, it's just generic footage from the UAE
Most videos about Qatar and the UAE are like that. Close to 100 percent
A lot of reporting these days are just marketing videos.
The industry lobbying groups would spend the money to "do all the investigative research" then send it to journalists/reporters. Journalists/reporters only have to write the script, go to location, and shoot.
Funny, my thoughts exactly
The question that stands to mind is how much carbon dioxide was emitted to produce such beautiful environments? Do these greenlands actually suck CO2 if you consider all the building, solar panels production, fertilization, transportation, on the equation? And what are the consequences to global climate if you use cloud engineering ? Those are topics i haven't seen anyone talk about...
No one talks about them because it’s not important to their agenda. The truth is that when you combine all these industrial processes to simulate the effect of nature to your benefit, there is an inherent net negative effect on the environment. It further disrupts the already tragic equilibrium of nature we currently have.
Slowly but surely yes. Remember the area is a desert... so C02 emissions are already high, by starting to make these green areas, they are alreay starting to combat the areas
@@Krobra91 Yes, this is the right answer.
They use treated wastewater for the greneery, including the golf course
I also thought the best time to irrigate plants is during the late evening where less evaporation takes place to save the less water
Non issue as long as there is desalinated water
better to water in the early morning starting just after sunrise and before the heat of the day. Plants need sunlight to photosynthesize so irrigation over night allows more time for water to evaporate and ends up wasting water.
They literally have unlimited salt in their sea. Using that salt, they can cloud seed so that there'll be rains. And waters will make the desert becoming greens and more liveable. So, it's actually a very great solution and a win-win solution. ❣
They don't use salt NaCl........they use some type of salt .....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, with all or part of the hydrogen of the acid replaced by a metal or other cation....)
Except the countries who would historically have received that rainfall are now not going to, purely so the UAE has a nice attraction for tourism.
Deserts themselves are a unique ecosystem, and given UAE and virtually all of the Arabian peninsula has been desert for thousands of years, this is essentially environmental terrorism. They’re destroying an ecosystem, they aren’t reversing desertification like the great green walls in China and across North Africa.
How'd that work out? Here's one of the many headlines dated April 17
"At Least 20 Dead In UAE And Oman After Record Rainfall Causes Severe Flooding"
The trees are watered with desalinated seawater, which has a very detrimental environmental impact. The trees that are planted aren't drought resistant species either. Instead of laying artificial grass, huge water thirsty lawns are planted that require near constant irrigation in summer. Since cloudseeding started, the rain hasn't increased but the fog, which provides moisture for the survival of desert plants and wildlife, has deteriorated. There is too much interference. One can PR it as much as you want to. The system isn't optimal. For it to work effectively, wiser decisions need to be made
Modern day alchemy - making fertile soil from dust and sand... Imagine if someone from ancient history saw this! Fascinating!
Well, this explains a lot with the floods going on recently.
Actually The flood is natural
Yet the UAE keeps burning oil.
Also yet, One of the biggest solar farms in the world are in UAE.
If we quit oil before we have proper new green energy then it would be the same as suicide
@@ghost91977 Go visit Dubai, NOT A SINGLE SOLAR PANEL in sight..
Reason; the sun fries the wiring and causes the panels to malfunction... (Ironicaly, it's too hot to work optimally)
The money from oil funds water desalination, the water desalinated helps regreen the desert, and using a lot of this desalinated water helps reduce the sea level rising because of global warming.
@@michaelmatisse2808 You do realize that's the DUMBEST idea you can do right?!
At the very least use a nuclear power plant this way you don't stress the environment! If you ever lived near an oil processing plant, I can tell you the whole area stinks like a fart! Side note, you can't "green" a hot desert! Using a finite energy source to create drinking water! Side note, desalinated water does NOT contain natural minerals... And what are you going to do with the brine?! Your design isn't circular... Israel tried it on a small scale and nearly depleted the Sea of Galilea! This isn't a "high" desert like in Ethiopia or in some places of Colorado!
Whats with the ammo reload sounds?
When will people learn to stop messing with Mother Nature !
Hectares, square miles, square meters... Please pick a system of measurement.
That must be the most well funded meteorological centre in the world. Very flashy indeed!
Pity cant swap some of the Arab desert sunshine for some of the west of Ireland cold rainy weather
I lived in the UAE for the first 30 years of my life and now live in Ireland. And I can’t stress this enough, do not wish for this. It is bad, really bad. Ireland is heaven on earth (the weather). Lush green, rainy, cold weather > dry, soul crushing heat, dusty.
We have more than enough rain here in Norway too. Sometimes I wonder if "someone" is manipulating the weather and giving us more rain than we would get naturally to fill the reservoirs that produce power and thus money.
They are not following the SIMPLE principles of the water cycle: evaporation = condensation/clouds=rain
Apply permaculture principles to slow and capture rain within the landscape so can then have enough subsoil water to support plants that TRANSPIRE, evaporate water from their leaves, which feeds into the natural water cycle.
Also vital to increasing water efficiency, recycle 100% of used water as nature does, and include more green roofs and spaces to further the cycle while reducing the tendency of urban areas to elevate temperatures in a heat island effect.
Edit: The city of Las Vegas uses huge amount of water,sometimes just to entertain, in what is a very dry region
Las vegas uses up to 629 litres of water per person per day
(P.S) just now checked it wasn't LA it was las vegas
Source: Question it by Philip Steele
Beauty? In LA? You sure?
625 liters a day is nothing. It's the water consumption of a single family.
@@L154N4LG4IB yes pretty sure
@@edmondantes4338 but still every drop counts
I don't believe you.
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
-- Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV)
That's impressive! Combatting desertification is crucial, especially in regions facing water scarcity. It's inspiring to see countries like the UAE and China taking steps to green their landscapes and mitigate the impacts of arid conditions
By far the best strategy I’ve tried. This one is killing it for me
There is one problem...cloud seeding doesn't just effect the area you're doing the cloud seeding. Cloud seeding may work well for the UAE but could cause droughts in other parts of the world or can cause more rain in other areas of the world that don't need more rain
To reduce the sea water level rising we should all use desalinated water.
How is cloud seeding working out for them now?
It’s been a washout.
Also UAE's attempts to reverse desertification by reforesting its barren landscapes are admirable, particularly in light of the region's problems with water constraint. Seeing other nations, like China, addressing environmental challenges with comparable steps is encouraging.
The team is so passionate to the cause that they even dress as clouds
And now it rain too much
Lol this backfired
You can not use the term desertification so loosely. You can not have desertification in a place that has already
been a desert for hundreds of years if not for Millenniums like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. You can use the term
desertification for countries and region that have a reasonable amount of vegetation like Mexico or South Africa.
Not all the lands of these countries are deserts check the west Saudi Arabia
Habibis at work
The desert was already greening from co2.
4:43 ... wait so they paved paradise just to put up a parking? Guess Joni Michell was right they didn't know what they had till it was gone.
You nailed it… that song resonates stronger than ever.
Don't forget it was Dubai that built those stupid islands in the shape of palm trees (dredging up coral reefs in the process). Built a city without planning and building a central water treatment system. And chose an American model of suburban planning when they could have taken the best ideas from anywhere in the World.
@@MalcolmRose-l3b’stupid islands’? 🤣. Sour grape huh?
@@daniel11111 Not really, only one has been finished, they've caused problems along the rest of the Dubai coast because of changed currents. And they caused huge environmental destruction - most countries are at pains to preserve their coral reefs and oyster beds - Dubai built over theirs.
@@MalcolmRose-l3b that one island brings in more revenue than your corrupt politicians can envision.And talking about environmental impacts, western nations with comparable per capita emissions should be the last one talking,
So… is that why there’s random floods happening in Dubai rn??
India got best reforestation project
Greening deserts is a great way to absorb CO2 and create oxygen, plus all the economic benefits you explained.
Unluckily it is not a silver bullet, as it has also a negative effect: trees attract more sun energy (and thus heat) than deserts, as they are "darker" than sand.
Scientific studies show how greening the entire Sahara would actually INCREASE global temperature.
It would also increase rainfall with the biotic pump, kickstarting a positive feedback loop
@@HKspurs10
What does positive feedback loop mean in this case?
@@Lock2002ful meaning once there are enough trees planted, it will generate localised rainfall, hence naturally allowing the forest to grow without anymore man-made intervention, hence it's not as though you'll need to replant the entire thing
@@HKspurs10
Ahh, ok. Thank you!
What do you think about what the OP said concerning increasing global temperature should, for example, the whole of the Sahara become green.
I don’t know about that but then again I’m no scientist.
How so?
I would have thought greening provides rainfall with a cooling effect, rather than hot dry air over deserts.
Another method of greenery enhancement in torrid regions is the national organic waste management must be dumped in selected areas where the point of greenery cultivation is practice , and the application of earthworms on thickly plant's populated areas is amust to let the soil retain more moistures by the aid of these earthworms and other helpful soil activators
I just got to this video because one of my classmates did a science project about grass and there was a qr code so i scanned it and it brought me here
I think this solution could stop desertification in any countries where there is a lack of water and rain
So
UAE Floods caused by Cloud seeding project.
Cloud seeding increases floods, dryness, droughts, deserts, extreme weather, and climate change.
We need to actively undertake projects to green deserts, increase forests, and conserve forests so that natural rain can fall all over the world.
Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) prophesied that arabia will turn green.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying:
The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.
[Source: Sahih Muslim 157c]
Our prophet S.A.W spoke the truth.
Isaiah 35:1
“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
What if India could export it's babool and kikar plant saplings to UAE then may be it would help the Arab Sheikhs in speeding up the fight against desertification.
Cloud seeding in the uae would be a useless waste of money. They don’t have the topography to induce rain. Ie: there are very few mountains to bring in precipitation. All the seeding would do is improve rainfall across the gulf in Iran.
Well well well
😂@@wotizit
You have to ☁ seed as long as you live in that place. Can't rain enough without you.
Great but too bad they didnt opt for landscaping for water recharge, tree planting, grasses, shrubs, rewilding. Possible using traditional desert community designs like ellipticals, crescent shaped water collection systems that creates shade, erosion control, vegetative diversity, water sustenance that protects nature and environment. Exploiting technology alone is not sustainable and environmental disastrous.
Nah it just flooded the roads instead.
With Water Resources Conservation Desert Turns Green.
Hmm? Whilst we need to replace the greenery we've destroyed, I wonder if undertaking the task in this way is best. Two thoughts: i) what are the unintended consequences (and there will be some) of cloud seeding? Where would the water have gone had it not been encouraged to consolidate into a cloud? ii) Is there any consideration of the albedo effect?
My third thought - Why should I trust anything in this report when it appears to be in wholehearted support of nations which think nothing of building 'white elephants' (the Palm and 'World resorts), at great environmental cost (I don't just mean ecosystem disruption, there's also the fossil fuel energy expended) and the journalist at no point makes any challenging comment or counter argument. Rather, she appears to simply accept what she's told. We saw plenty of footage of plants in a nursery but little in the way of actual mature bushes and trees insitu. I also wondered why, given what is known about evaporation and temperature, were plants being watered during daylight hours?
if there was no sand there would have been no amazon!
In indonesia, we plant cassava but harvesing corn
The flood last week has made dubai way more green
Where does the water that the tress require come from? Does the trees needs for water compete with human needs?
The smarter question would be..Should you turn desserts into forests??????...don't mess with mother natüre !!!we all love the way we look...especially her...shes gorgeous ...
If trends keep going as they are, UAE needs to figure out a solution for water capture.
They can build their cities to accommodate flooding
Is there recent evidence that cloud seeding works? It will be fantastic if people can control rainfall, to make it happen over dryer places and land areas, rather than even more rainfall on already wet areas and oceans.
But last I checked there's no evidence of its effectiveness.
There is , I am living in UAE. Every once in a while they announce cloud seeding and then it actually rains even during summer. They do it during the weekends
Cloud seeding has been around since the 60’s, surely they wouldn’t still be doing it if it didn’t work.
The question on the efficiency was not answered
So amateur, that they can’t even take out the dollar sign from their numbers when talking about other numbers
CNBC doesn't pay its video editors enough.
The problem is heat, if this world cools down, the desert will stop expanding. I think the desert is beautiful though but there must be a balance.
Nature be like let's make it an ocean
We should stand with this kind of idea.
Wonderful news. I have wondered when some of the Middle Eastern countries would start to address and how they would tackle it. Shukran!
Don’t think you should mess with nature.. we already made a mess of things…
With all that money, they couldn't even make a forest. Like dump their treated sewage somewhere that makes use of plants to clean it further.
You pronounce ghafs very beautifully
If Emirates is to survive in future it has to find a way fo change the desert back to green land.
Such artifical rains will occur more as weather changes rapidly in the future. Fhey need to find a way to get this excess water to the ground, thus increasing ground water.
Green? No but it can make it blue…
Great efforts
“your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Turning deserts green certainly brings benefits to locals, but it may diminish the earth’s albedo, its ability to reflect light and heat. Therefore it might cause earth’s temperature to raise more, than the captured co2 would have. Geoengineering is a difficult task
Wouldn’t it be easier to clean and pump water from the Gulf? Then plant trees and crap.
20 million is pocket change to gov why does anyone go without water?
U can't compare London and Singapore together. There countries get rain every day
If the desert is being rained on, what other countries are going to suffer. What countries are milling out? The clouds are sailing past other countries that they used to drop rain on.
you're just giving MrBeast ideas...
We look forward to the shout out once the video is published.
And what is graphite made of? Coal! We gotta stop burning it & start using it more efficiently!
No but it can turn Dubai into a lake.
Desertification works if you can get enough water for the plants.
are they trying to make it rain with plains?
Manipulating weather affects our world weather not just that country and should not be encouraged.
Turn deserts into flash floods.
I learnt about cloud seeding from my Professor in Physical Geography @ North-West University 🇿🇦
Hydroponics industry experts without metaphors or jargon
With water it is easy to grow a forest
The gun cocking sounds, and upwards inflections at the end of sentences, make this very difficult to take seriously
Yes they got water now...they just need Paul Moadib Artredis to turn it green 💚🍏🤣🤣🤣
They made it become river ….
humans will learn the hard way not to mess with nature
Wonderful
We hear about cloud seeding but never see the results on how effective it is,
Yeah, that's a shame.
you have water to feed 40 billion animals
Now they got more water they can ever dream of. FLOOD
What always amazed me is the Congo river of Africa which flows towards Atlantic ocean with massive flows capacity. If this river diverted towards Sahara Desert which is largest desert in world, you can imagine trillions of trees will be planted, so the whole world will benefit that co2 level will drop!
If Sahara become green, then amazon rainforest in South America becomes desert. That is how world works.
@@dawn_alex yes it’s true! But the problem is every year Sahara desert is widening. At least stopping desertification will make a balance.
@@bereketkiflejibicho3015 Yea I heard they have come up with a plan called The Great Wall of Sahel or something.. in which they plant trees from western tip to eastern tip of African Continent to form a defensive line of vegetation. Don't know what happened to the project though..
@@dawn_alexit’s still going, I watched a video just recently about it! 👍
You're clearly confused, 1 billion USD?
Waow
Im here for the flood comments 😅😅
Better to form a natural sustainable eco system that will hold and attract water!! Hope they do not pump saline water back into the sea from desalination!
0:40 why is there a teleprompter with Chinese script in the back? Is CNBC a Chinese owned news outlet?
Take CNBC International to the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts in China. as well as modern desert farming.
Well, THIS is an inconvenient little video. Oh! No! No! We're not cloud seeding, when, duh, it is well documented that you are, UAE.
Israel it's a successful country was able to flourish the desert
Mediterranean climate vs Arabian climate.
You are an American for sure