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The sentence turns a conditional modeling result into a blanket factual claim.

What the underlying research actually says:

• The well-known Sahara study by Li et al. (2018, Science) did not show that desert solar panels generally make deserts start raining. Its abstract says the effect appears only "if sufficiently large" and for "large-scale installations ... covering the Sahara". It also says the enhancement is "scale dependent" and "particular to the Sahara".
• A later Earth-system modeling study (Long et al., 2024, Communications Earth & Environment) explicitly tested hypothetical Sahara solar farms covering 5%, 20%, and 50% of North Africa and concluded that major atmospheric effects occur if covering 20% or more of the area.
• A separate UAE study (Branch et al., 2024, Earth System Dynamics) also modeled rainfall enhancement only for very large artificial black surfaces under specific sea-breeze conditions. The paper says "Currently it is not known how strong this rainfall enhancement would be or what scale of black surface would need to be employed" and frames the idea as something needing further research, not an established general outcome.

So the post's wording is inaccurate because it presents a specific, hypothetical, large-scale, model-based possibility as though it were a simple real-world rule: install panels in a desert and "it starts raining." The evidence does not support that general claim.