Do you know why it doesn't rain? Well, because the evil Doctor No moves the levers of an infernal machine to divert the clouds, while stroking his cat, with the aim of destroying humanity. Well, maybe it was another evil one with the cat, but it's still the same: it's not raining because they're shooting at the clouds. Or something similar, similarly silly, we mean, but there are those who believe it. Lots of.
At which point, knowing the cattle, it occurred to Aemet to explain that fifty countries are studying mechanisms to artificially change the weather, just when we are thinking of showering with pitchers. The Spanish Meteorological Agency did not say which countries it was about, but it did talk about techniques such as the sowing of hygroscopic or glaciogenic nuclei, sonic cannons... All this not out of malice, eh, but to increase precipitation between 10% and 20%, which all adds up.
You don't have to be smart to imagine what came next: some denied the existence of these techniques on the networks, others said yes, and the largest group, finally, had just found an explanation for the stubborn drought Which part is so that it rains, and not the other way around, we didn't understand? It also didn't help that, in view of the mess, Aemet added that nothing like that is done here, but that in 2016 he had already published an article about the so-called raindrop planes, you know, those that they supposedly seed the clouds to avoid precipitation.
If they wanted to clarify things, they failed, because Aemet declares that it is not competent to know if it is done, but that it is not done, and that it also has no scientific basis, that of the chemtrails or chemical lines of the planes that prevent the rain is a lie and they never said it was true. The Twitter firmament was filled with photographs of lines in the sky crossing each other, singly, in groups, in parallel, in cross-stitch and crocheting as proof that someone is messing with time (any government? , Elon Musk?, the kid next door with his drones?).
It was also filled with insults (it's Twitter, don't forget) from conspiranoics, who insisted that the truth is out there, hidden in Aemet, to the point that the scientists were forced to tweet in response to clarify that one thing is science and another James Bond. Luckily Irene Montero was performing at Congress and the downpour fell on her. as usual
