Cloud Seeding's Impact on Climate Change and Real Estate

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1:56Learn more at Brex.com slash AF. So do you believe cloud seeding is the cause of a violent storm that we're seeing in Houston, Dallas, Dubai? And what is cloud seeding for people that might not be familiar with it? Cloud seeding is when they take business class planes into the atmosphere and release certain gases and chemicals into the clouds to make it rain more. This is very like the open secret in Dubai because it doesn't rain that much in the desert. but then ferraris and porches and rolls royces were swimming in uh olympic-sized pools throughout the streets a couple months ago and then houston had a bunch of storms and dallas is going through one now and i think when you start to play with nature and play with god we've seen this with monsanto and genetically modified foods and it's part of the reason why we have sickness running rampant in the united states of america opposed to if you come to vietnam or bali or bahamas or Mexico or London, the food quality is better.

2:52Like the dog food quality is better than the processed food in the United States. So there've been a lot more storms. And I think as a result, um, we're seeing these storms kick up and be a lot more violent. I know a lot of times we talk about climate change, but sometimes there's some intentionality behind some of this stuff. And this isn't like something I read on infowars.com and Alex Jones and shit. Like This is mainstream news about cloud seeding. So maybe we can insert a clip and play a clip about it We're here in Utah where they have been running cloud seeding program There's 42 cloud seeding programs across the American West Many of them have aerial parts where they take airplanes like this with flares attached inside these squares silver iodide Microscopic particle that acts like a magnet for water So they shoot those microscopic particles into a storm.

3:43That's already gonna produce some snow and just enhance that snow. By the end of the season, in a good program, we're told you can make 3 % to 15 % more snowpack. Cloud seating has been around since the 1940s and 50s, but what has really advanced is the number of ground seating projects. So this little shack on wheels has a pipe and a propane attached. during a storm they can remotely set that off it sends up silver iodide little microscopic particles into the storm gets sucked up into the cloud makes it snow more like a little snow boost and this is the thing that makes it happen so this is a ground cloud seeder but um people need to stop trying to mess with these weather patterns because it does end up having a butterfly lack effect later down the line.

4:38So, but how do you feel about just climate change in general? I think, of course, we've done tremendous damage to the planet. We're paying for it. Like, not even some places where this colder climate has become a warmer, polar caps are starting to melt. It's a serious issue. It's a serious issue. A thousand percent. But they knew that a thousand years ago. Like, the oil companies No, they just didn't care. It's one of these things that you see firsthand. I know people are like, well, the climate has always changed throughout world time. We had the ice age. That's obviously climate change. So, yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you and I'm not saying what the cause of climate change is, but it's undeniable that the earth is getting hotter.

5:22Absolutely. That's undeniable, right? Take New York. I've never even in your whole life, but I've never seen it rain this much in New York over the last year. I've been scared going to New York now. Like, man, if I get rained in, I'm stuck for five days. The whole winter, fall, I mean, we just, we get in good weather now. Thank God. Yeah. For like four or five months, it was rain. You know, we used to have, we never had hurricanes. Now we had hurricanes before. We used to have like, you know, really bad rainstorms, maybe once every five years, like torrential. Now it happens once every six months.

5:52Yeah. Even like, you know, housing, you got to flood proof your house and do different things. Like these are things, it's much warmer. It doesn't really snow as much as it used to. it probably snows like one time a year it used to be used to have blizzards absolutely heavy snow storms um doesn't really snow that much very well mild mint winters same in Chicago winter and fall is like the same thing there's really no real winter um no it's getting warmer I mean I went to Puerto Rico and we was actually looking at the ocean and they were showing us like they was like that's where uh pirates of the caribbean got filled and i'm like where they like it was like where you're looking at right now that used to be an island um and that was only like probably 15 20 years ago yeah so it's like they're like yeah well now it's covered with water so you can't see it but that used to actually be an island and they filmed they filmed the movie there so yeah as far as if you believe in as far as uh the political aspect of it like that's not i don't care about your thoughts on this, to be honest with you.

6:58But it's not debatable that the earth is getting warmer, right? And there's effects of the earth getting warmer. I mean, you see it. And a lot of these coastal properties... California is in shambles. You can't even get insurance. You got to be rich to have insurance in your house in California now. This is a financial topic, right? Because it's like, okay, everybody wants to live in Miami, but you're going to have problems with these oceanfront properties and these waterfront properties. I mean, we talk a lot about ownership. And one of the most important assets you can own is your digital real estate.

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11:13And there's only a few highlands, places in Miami. Little Haiti. These are places that are actually the most safe. Safest zones. They're the safest zones, right? So it's no surprise that you see gentrification. You see it start changing, different things in nature. Because literally what would originally be thought as the most undesirable part, because if you go to Miami, who's like, who wants to live inland, right? Everybody wants to live by the water. But then when you really start to look at, okay, not only just from a global warming and you might not have anywhere to live, but just from a regular flood standpoint, right?

11:48Like Brickell gets flooded all the time. All the time now. So it's like, all right, you know, when you look at it from that standpoint and it's like, okay, now what area is flood proof? Now the areas that were once the least desirable are starting to become the most desirable, Yeah. Right. So now you start to see the whole transition play as far as real estate. Now you start to see gentrification. Now you start to see people move in, home prices go up, new businesses, different things. It's never by accident. It's same thing happens in Brazil. I was, I was actually studying this in Brazil. You know, they put the favelas, which favelas is the slums in Brazil and they put them in the Hills.

12:25Right. Cause it was like, okay, who really wants to live in the mountains? Right. And everybody wants to live in the beach, but then they realized that some of those favelas have some of the best views of like Christ the Redeemer and the beach and all of that. So once again, now you start the gentrification to move people out, relocation of people like five hours outside of Rio, different things that they should, because they realized, okay, now we made a mistake. This is actually prime real estate. Same thing. Even if you look at New York, like you look at like Queensbridge, right? Queensbridge is in Long Island city, which is right on the water of queens it overlooks manhattan previously that was a bad neighborhood now long island city is like one of the nicest neighborhoods in new york um you can't even go like every restaurants hookah lounges hotels everything like and all they did was just build around the projects uh because you really can't it's be tremendously hard to knock down 96 buildings where i saw i saw large queensbridge projects has 96 buildings it's kind of hard to knock down 96 buildings right so what they did was they just kind of made it an oasis and all around now you won't you wouldn't even really realize that there was a project there unless you actually went looking for it right like just private the buildings that they built in a higher than the project builders so you really can't even you wouldn't even tell them then it's like you know they think it's very secure now a bunch of cops everywhere they got the sensory thing so there's really it's not a lot of violence anything like that and now you're just able to just you know keep people in that one area pocket self-contained self-contained but now everything around that is extremely high priced real estate right because that's actually prime time real estate so appreciate what you have when you have it because sometimes you don't even realize that what you think is the worst area is actually the best area could be yep and you know who doesn't think this is a conspiracy bill gates if you go look at all that farmland that he's bought they're all in the zones that won't flood in middle of america whenever someone of that you can regardless if you think he's evil or not one of the wealthiest men of all time when he buys up that much land i think the number one land buyer um by one person in the united states there's a pattern guys go on google maps and look at it uh or google earth they're all in non-flood zones So if a crisis breaks out and the coasts go through trouble, you'll have enough land to rent you and sell you genetically modified mosquitoes or whatever else you're going to eat if you go through the Hunger Games.

14:55You got to look at what the elite are doing to be able to plan properly. That's a fact. Yeah, that's a fact. Yeah. Bill Gates owns the most real estate in America. Insane. No smoke. It's the big ball and drama with the Clintons, William H. Oh, who else? Buffett. Oh, God. But like you said, I mean, it's interesting, right? His real estate, he didn't like, his play wasn't to try to buy Manhattan or buy all of Hollywood. He's buying places that nobody would even care about. Yeah. And it flies under the radar. And so are the Chinese. They bought up a bunch of quote unquote undesirable areas quietly in tandem with William.

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