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Wish they would have explained what caused the flooding in plain terms, rather than use an emotional, over-defensive, akshyually-esque, fact-checking, tone.

>It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology...

It's exciting? To who, you? The Bogeyman?

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You know the answer, it was climate change.

Or if you want to be more pedantic, the cause of the flood is a failure to adapt public infrastructure to changes in rainfall intensity caused by the economic system Dubai is desperately fighting to perpetuate.

And the cloud seeding

Except not really.. It couldn't have had much affect seeding the areas affected, they were not just a little flooded and another human intervention that places contaminants in the air actually causes unpredictable weather..

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