A new study claims that China has changed the weather.
The South China Morning Post reports that during the Chinese Communist Party's 100th anniversary, weather authorities were able to modify the weather above Beijing to make it easier to see a ceremony in Tiananmen Square.
Cloud seeding technology involves shooting silver iodide particles into the clouds, with the idea of attracting water droplets to modify the weather.
A year ago it was reported that China was going to expand its weather modification program to a test area of over five million square miles by the year 2025. That is bigger than the entire country of India, and could cause serious issues with China's neighbors.
This is the first time that China has used cloud-seeding technology, but it appears to be one of the most successful and largest-scale tests conducted not just by the CCP, but also.
It was not publicized, and part of the Tsinghua researchers' paper focused on the evidence they found that cloud seeding had actually taken place, which included reports of rockets being launched into the sky from the mountains outside of Beijing before the July 1 centennial.
There were a number of hurdles that weather officials had to jump to change the weather. The report noted that pollution was bad leading up to the 100th anniversary of the CCP. The pollution in Beijing went from moderate to good on July 1 and the rain appeared to be artificial.
Even though the US military has been trying to make it rain since 1967, professional China-worriers are concerned that the Chinese Communist Party may use cloud seeding technology for military purposes.
This successful and large-scale operation in Beijing raises important questions about potential military use of the tech. If one country is able to control its weather, it could do so elsewhere, which is bad news for anyone who isn't invested in forever wars.
Cloud seeding technology has not been able to measure how it affects natural weather patterns for long enough to know if it is a solution for the megadroughts of the not-so-future.
It seems like it is now possible to make it rain on command.
China modified the weather as the Communist Party marked a century in Beijing.
A bunch of US states are using weather modification technology.
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