It’s amazing how many people are still in denial about the existence of Weather Modification programs.
The USSR has been attempting such mods for decades and the Chinese are ramping up their programs as well. It’s difficult to think that America would just sit back and let our 2 greatest military threats take the lead on such programs.
I don’t believe such programs are malevolent in nature but I’m quite certain such programs to modify weather via ‘cloud seeding’ exist.
BusinessWeek agrees
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc20051020_323701.htm
“To almost all scientists and weather professionals, this sort of rationalization is ludicrous. But there’s no denying that technology capable of controlling the weather would be a potent military and political weapon. One of the pillars of U.S. science, mathematician and computer wizard John von Neumann, started working on weather modification right after World War II. In the late 1940s, he convinced the Defense Dept. to invest in research that he hoped could be used to vanquish Communism by causing droughts and devastating crops in the Soviet Union.
Apparent early successes with cloud-seeding tactics that induced rain spurred the Pentagon to fund modest efforts for some 20 years, and it unleashed a concerted five-year assault during the Vietnam War, starting in 1967. Dubbed Project Popeye, its goal was to prolong the monsoon season and thus impede the movement of enemy troops and supplies on muddy jungle trails.
By 1977, the military was spending $2.8 million a year on weather-modification research. That year, partly in reaction to Popeye, the United Nations passed a resolution banning the hostile use of all environmental modification techniques. This led to a treaty that the U.S. ratified in 1978. Although the treaty doesn’t ban peaceful applications, or so-called benign weather modification, the Pentagon elected to eliminate all such research in 1979. The Kremlin continued its weather-modification work, however.
(more at link) “