search term; china using weather modification: Brave summarizer returns:
"China operates the world’s largest weather modification program, employing approximately 37,000 personnel to conduct large-scale cloud seeding across more than 50% of its land area. The primary objective is to enhance precipitation for agricultural production and ecological restoration, while also suppressing hail and clearing pollution during major events.
Key operational details include:
Scale and Technology: The program utilizes a fleet of drones, rockets, and ground-based generators to disperse silver iodide into clouds. Recent tests in Xinjiang demonstrated that 1 kg of silver iodide could generate over 70,000 cubic meters of additional rainfall.
Strategic Goals: By 2025, China aims to cover 5.5 million square kilometers (1.5 times the size of India) with artificial rain or snow operations. This includes the ambitious Tianhe ("Sky River") initiative on the Tibetan Plateau to divert water vapor northward.
Notable Applications: Weather modification has been used to ensure clear skies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2021 CCP Centenary, significantly reducing PM2.5 pollution through induced rainfall.
International Concerns: The extensive cloud seeding on the Tibetan Plateau has raised transboundary issues and security concerns among neighboring countries, including India, regarding potential disruptions to regional monsoon patterns. "
Thanks for that info, Pete. If China is doing this to itself . . . well, maybe they need to dial things back a bit! The uncensored footage coming out of China is horrifying, with entire villages being swept away. Also, when China decides to release millions of gallons of water from behind overstressed dams, downstream villages are given no warning at all. And then when PLA troops are sent out to assist, it’s only for show; they do nothing but arrange foto shoots.
You learn something new everyday. I did not realize Okinawa is so far south. The headline did not make sense as a typhon hitting the mainland is going to porceed to the Koreas and Eastern Russia.
Also a typhon hitting the mainland of Japan will probably break apart as it passes of the island nation. Not so much with Okinawa which is similar to the carribean islands.