Al Gore when running for president in 2000 said “we are working on controlling weather.”
Later he wrote “An Inconvenient Truth” which led to his movie.
Mankind has tried to make rain since forever and has never stopped.
Funding has probably never stopped, either, as governments know controlling weather would be one of the best offensive/defensive weapons.
“Mankind has tried to make rain since forever and has never stopped.”
I read a good sci-fi short story about, how after we had developed unlimited, cheap fusion power, that the Middle East oil producers had to find some use for their now nearly worthless oil. Their solution was to build “artificial mountains” of huge strips of asphalt which would generate rain in the desert from the up drafts of hot air created by the asphalt.