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China plans rapid expansion of 'weather modification' efforts
https://www.theguardian.com/ ^ | 12/3/2020 | Johnathan Watts

Posted on 12/03/2020 12:00:56 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

China is planning a rapid expansion of its weather modification programme to cover an area more than one and a half times the size of India, in a move likely to raise concerns among the country’s neighbours.

The decision, announced by the cabinet on Wednesday night, would increase fivefold the world’s biggest cloud-seeding operation, which already employs an estimated 35,000 people.

For six decades, the communist nation has deployed military aircraft and anti-aircraft guns to lace clouds with silver iodide or liquid nitrogen to thicken water droplets to the point where they fall as snow or rain. The technology has mostly been used at a local level to alleviate droughts or clear skies ahead of major events, such as the 2008 Olympics or last October’s 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

But the proposed enlargement is on a scale that could affect regional weather patterns. The cabinet said it wanted to extend the artificial rain and snow programme to cover at least 2.1m sq miles (5.5m sq km) of land by 2025. The long-term plan envisages that by 2035, the country’s weather modification capabilities would reach an “advanced” level and focus on revitalising rural regions, restoring ecosystems and minimising losses from natural disasters.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; conspiracy
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1 posted on 12/03/2020 12:00:56 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

The interesting part about this that any true climate change is already being done by that collection of dictators.

Meanwhile, Asshat Joe wants us to keep pretending to do good wrt climate.


2 posted on 12/03/2020 12:03:24 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: RomanSoldier19

‘Bugman bad...’


3 posted on 12/03/2020 12:08:01 PM PST by glasseye ("If you don't fire that prosecutor, you ain't black." -Joe Biden)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I hate these people


4 posted on 12/03/2020 12:09:09 PM PST by diplomatic_immunity
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To: RomanSoldier19

Where are Nick Begich and Project HAARP when you need them?


5 posted on 12/03/2020 12:12:37 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Loosing the Wuhan Flu on the world wasn’t enough?


6 posted on 12/03/2020 12:17:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

China wants to screw up the planet. It isn’t satisfied with
screwing up only the lives of it’s own citizens.


7 posted on 12/03/2020 12:18:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Oh jeez...I’ve seen this movie before.


8 posted on 12/03/2020 12:23:00 PM PST by moovova
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To: RomanSoldier19
what's old is new again... and never look at the sky the same again


9 posted on 12/03/2020 12:35:34 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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10 posted on 12/03/2020 12:37:40 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Nothing new. Remember when Bush steered katrina?
People really believed that (or at least felt good saying it)

11 posted on 12/03/2020 12:44:40 PM PST by z3n
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To: RomanSoldier19

Oh dear God


12 posted on 12/03/2020 1:15:42 PM PST by Irenic
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To: RomanSoldier19

six decades? I don’t think so. Six decades ago the Chinese were still Leaping Backwards.

What is concerning is they are aiming to control weather over an area equal to the landmass of Alaska. And weather moves. Which means weather can be weaponized by ‘stealing’ water that would otherwise be dropped elsewhere on other nations. Think California drought. Or European drought. Not to mention the silver iodide is toxic to aquatic life.


13 posted on 12/03/2020 1:17:30 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: BenLurkin

Just imagine if they were to cause enough rain that the Three Gorges Dam overfilled and collapsed.

KARMA!


14 posted on 12/03/2020 1:35:25 PM PST by utahb52
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To: RomanSoldier19

Sure....crazy.

Resurrecting thread to add some thoughts on the subject.

There are a number of factors that affect weather, El Nino, La Nina, cylical movments of the angle of the sun North and South (27k year cycle on that one!) 100,000k year wobble on the earth, and of course, Solar maximums and minimums (Sunspot and solar output.) Those we can’t control and yes they probably account for most of the changes in climate.

**The butterfly effect; (From Wikipedia article)

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz. He noted that butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.[citation needed] Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed runs of his weather model with initial condition data that were rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner. He noted that the weather model would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.[1]”

Interestingly, NOAA includes weather modification info info on its website.

https://www.library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections/Weather-Modification-Project-Reports

“In the late 1940’s and 1950’s many deemed “the deliberate or the inadvertent alteration of atmospheric conditions by human activity”, also known as weather modification, as a promising science of the future. Currently, the most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which increases rain or snow, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply. Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hail or hurricanes, from occurring.

As part of Public Law 92-205 (1972), all non-Federal weather modification activities must be reported to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, via the NOAA Weather Program Office. Below is a list of these reports and is updated on an annual basis.”

So, NOAA seems to have taken it seriously, and a 1970s Congress took it seriously. (Pre global warming propaganda era.)

China believes it can control the weather and harvest rain. (Backfired? Note their problems with Yangzte flooding and the 3 gorges dam.)

Other articles on this subject.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1918530/china-weather-control-artificial-rain/

Just a threat or a military weapon?

https://eurasiantimes.com/china-threatens-india-with-a-weather-modification-system-than-is-1-5-times-larger-than-india/

So, so many factors that affect the weather, most beyond our control, but is China in effect killing butterflies with is weather modification? Could attempting to steal water/rain from India and Pakistan affects weather that results in floods in Holland and Germany?

Perhaps it is more accurate to say that they are NOT controlling weather as they in their pride believe, as much as introducing an unintended chaos that disrupts weather for the rest of the planet.


15 posted on 07/19/2021 7:21:22 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: RomanSoldier19

China got their hands on the Karl Rove Weather Machine.


16 posted on 07/19/2021 7:24:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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