The Culture War Podcast with Tim Pool Cloud SEEDING BLAMED For Texas Floods, Deaths, Company CEO SPEAKS Out ft. Augustus Doricko
Jul 9, 2025
Augustus Doricko, the founder and CEO of Rainmaker, a cutting-edge cloud seeding company, dives into the controversial link between cloud seeding and Texas floods. He debunks common misconceptions, explaining the science behind cloud seeding and its potential benefits in agriculture amid climate challenges. The discussion also highlights the environmental implications of cloud seeding techniques, regulatory hurdles, and the urgent need for responsible groundwater management to prevent future ecological disasters.
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Weather Events and Political Narratives
- Both political sides politicize extreme weather events, attributing them to climate change or cloud seeding for their agenda.
- Tim Pool suggests some storms simply happen naturally without conspiracies or deliberate causes.
Tim's Flooding Experience
- Tim Pool shares personal flooding experience in West Virginia, where groundwater rose so high they pumped water out of the basement.
- This illustrates that intense rain causing floods happens independently of cloud seeding operations.
Cloud Seeding's Real Impact
- Cloud seeding uses small amounts of silver iodide to enhance existing clouds, not create rain from scratch.
- The volume of rain from cloud seeding is negligible compared to the trillions of gallons from large natural storms.