Cloud seeding isn't new, nor particularly controversial. Being able to encourage evaporation where water is plentiful and rain where it is needed is a helpful thing for farmers. Yes, I'm aware Dubai's flooded right now, but the typical use case of this technology is to promote rain over farmland, and it works.

I'm far more concerned with efforts to "cool" the earth by creating high-albedo environments to block the sun. That's potentially incredibly dangerous, depending on what they're using to do it - and it's predicated on a lie. At least with the cloud seeding, there is no lie. You do it when there isn't enough rain. With this, we do it because the gov't has created fake data by cooling the past and warming the present by abusing the urban heat island effect.