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Humans may not be able to control the weather, but we sure can change it. Cloud seeding – the act of injecting chemicals such as dry ice (solid CO2), silver iodide (AgI), table salt (NaCl), in the clouds with the aim of modifying the weather conditions (more rain, more snow,Read More →
RDo you remember when Donald Trump wanted to nuke hurricanes so they wouldn’t hit the United States? Everyone burst out laughing, but Trump’s warped little mind was actually onto something. You may not be able to bomb hurricanes into oblivion, but you can shoot things into the atmosphere in orderRead More →
Clouds gather in the sky over the southern San Joaquin Valley near Taft during a storm. John Lindsey The Chinese government recently announced a vast expansion of its weather modification program, covering more than half of its country by 2025 to control the amount of precipitation (rain, hail and snow)Read More →
China plans a rapid expansion of its weather modification program to cover an area more than one and a half times the size of India, which is likely to raise concerns among the country’s neighbors. The decision, announced by the cabinet on Wednesday evening, would boost the world’s largest cloudRead More →
File photo Roger Neshem addresses the Ward County Commission at a July 2017 meeting which drew a number of county residents to talk about weather modification. Ward County residents are organizing on both sides of a ballot measure to renew the county’s weather modification program. InRead More →
Flickr/gerlos This summer, China set aside $30 million for a controversial project that involves firing bullets filled with salt and minerals into the sky. Their mission? Make it rain. The project is part of a larger campaign of so-called weather modification techniques that the country has been using since atRead More →