Deliberate weather modification is simple fact.

Oh great, Wrabbit! Now all us tinfoil hat nutters are going to think every case of flooding in the news is secretly caused by cloud seeding! I'll never look at rain the same way again!

@marlingrace,

You are right, the United States has been messing with cloud seeding and other technology for decades.

I think that is the key though... The U.S. is messing around with it, and always has pretty well left off at that. There are private companies including ones in Texas and California who, for a price, say they can help make it rain. Still...their material and promo stuff makes it sound like a crapshoot and still more than a little tied up in acts of God as to whether it worked or not?

By contrast....in China (and other Asia nations..with China simply being the most mature and advanced, near as I can tell), it is just accepted fact and part of life...that the Government can and does control the weather itself.


Source: China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Some other recent stories of interest include....

China's 'weather modification' works like magic

Can China control the weather?

CHINA'S WEATHER MANIPULATION BRINGS CRIPPLING SNOWSTORM TO BEIJING

Then, I found this, and it's a 2015 story that reminds us, when looking at the rest above, how DIFFERENT the West views or even believes in the viability of the technology others take as a given in daily life.

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Wow.. really?? $150,000 and THREE WEEKS to study..for a maybe, kinda, sorta? Umm.. I think the OP link and stories above show that is 'Western thinking" compared to how far it has come to be treated as reliable elsewhere.

The rest of that article has the same half-skeptical/half disbelieving toward reliable or large scale use that I've come to expect in Western coverage. It is what I saw growing up, and why I reached middle age thinking Weather modification was as much science fiction as repeatable science fact.

It is a fascinating topic to get into..with as much deliberate DISinformation spread as there is innocent misinformation and just bad info in general.

@wrabbit2000,


"They" don't want it to rain in California!  Here is one conspiracy theory in a thread I posted previously: link

I don't remember if you posted here, or not.  In case you missed it...

There is no conspiracy theory to weather modification. Everyone is doing it and there are people who suffer because of the modification that is being done. The rain can't fall on your property if someone is making it rain before it gets to your property. This weather modification is a way of stealing from others and it is legal. It is not limited only to cloud seeding, electromagnetic pulses or even explosions can draw clouds. There are all kinds of ways to make clouds form and it is well known by some who do this. I just know enough from looking at research to know that this is happening, I do not know how to properly do it. But some do know, they have been testing for decades.

Well, perhaps our being off put about the science behind it may have to do with an incident with a rainmaker Hatfield in California. I've always been meaning to make a story about this curious case, but it fits in here so perfectly, that I will add it to this thread.

So Charles Hatfield was a rainmaker. With a concoction of over 200 chemicals and a tower, he would release a chemical gas into the atmosphere that helped to create or accelerate rain. He'd met with quite a bit of success (over 500 contracts) and word of his gift spread. In 1915, the San Diego City Council, contacted Mr. Hatfield. There was a drought, the Morena dam was drying up, and they desperately needed it to rain.

Mr. Hatfield agreed to make it rain - for free actually. But for every inch of rainfall he would receive 1,000 dollars. There was a counter offer by the city made, for Mr. Hatfield to simply fill the depleted reservoir for a flat fee of $10,000. They asked for a total of 40 - 50 inches of rain (enough to fill the reservoir) but anything less than 40, or more than 50 inches would result in it being free of charge.

The rains began after the New Year on January 5 and continued with only a short break until January 27th. The devastation was untold, with 20 deaths resulting from the flooding and destruction. However, Mr. Hatfield, had fulfilled his contract - completely filling the Morena Dam. Despite the fact that countless other tragedy and damage was done from the torrential, non-stop rains. Mr. Hatfield, maintained that it was the city responsibility to take the necessary precautions when asking for the sum of rain they asked for.

Of course, the City ruled it was an act of God and refused to pay Mr. Hatfield, which absolved him for being responsible for 3.5 million dollars in damage and responsible for 20 deaths.

Is this the same sort of seeding technology that China is using to make it rain today? Hmmm... sounds like mad scientistry just waiting to go wrong to me!

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