Weather Engineering in China (For Real?!)

How the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery.

By Mark Williams

[...] China’s national weather-engineering program is also the world’s largest, with approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30 aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers–mostly peasant farmers–who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.

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