China Weather Modification to a Manifest Storm the Size of France

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China is controlling the weather and will soon make it rain over an area twice the size of FRANCE

Test of climate tech follows years of bizarre rumours that China might be mucking around with the world's weather

by MARGI MURPHY
24th January 2017, 1:46 pm


CHINA is going to make it rain.
Its government has created a technology that can cause a downpour over an area almost twice the size of France.

China is spending £138million on the new initiative to solve the drought in its northwestern provinces, according to the South China Morning Post.
It’s sending airplanes to spray chemicals like dry ice and silver iodide across the sky to create more rainfall in a technique called cloud seeding.
The China Meteorological Administration expects rainfall and snow to be increased over 960,000 sq km as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Office

Beijing Weather Modification Office
The Beijing Weather Modification Office is a unit of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau tasked with weather control in Beijing, China, and its surrounding areas, including parts of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]
The Beijing Weather Modification Office form a part of China's nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world's largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide, who seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them.[SUP][4][/SUP] According to Zhang Qiang, head of the Office, cloud seeding increased precipitation in Beijing by about one-eighth in 2004; nationwide, similar efforts added 7.4 trillion cubic feet (210 km[SUP]3[/SUP]) of rain between 1995 and 2003.[SUP][5]
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The work of the Office is largely aimed at hail storm prevention or making rain to end droughts; they have also induced precipitation for purposes of firefighting or counteracting the effect of severe dust storms, as they did in the aftermath of one storm in April 2006 which dropped 300,000 tonnes of dust and sand on the city and was believed to have been the largest in five years.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] Their technology was also used to create snow on New Year's Day in 1997.[SUP][7][/SUP] Other proposed future uses for induced precipitation include lowering temperatures in summer, in hopes of reducing electricity consumption.[SUP][5][/SUP] More prominently, they were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics are free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.[SUP][4][/SUP] The office created a snowstorm in November 2009.[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP]

China wants to make it rain over an area bigger than Britain and France

Published time: 24 Jan, 2017 14:38
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An artificial rain project costing 1.15 billion yuan ($168 million) has been approved by China’s top economic planning agency for the country’s dry northwestern provinces; the South China Morning Post reported.

The project is part of a government program to modify the weather and will take three years. It comes as China’s Meteorological Administration found that with the proposed investment, rainfall and snow could rise in a 960,000 sq km area which is 10 percent of the country, and more than one-and-a-half times the size of France.

The money will cover the purchase of four new planes, the upgrade of eight existing aircraft, the development of 897 rocket launch devices and connection of 1,856 devices to digital control systems.

The rainmaking project is expected to help with “ecological security, water resource allocation, drought-fighting and forest fire prevention” in provinces plagued by water shortages, according to He Shengcun, an official at the Qinghai provincial government’s “weather influencing” office.
China's northwestern provinces — Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Xinjiang — are large desert areas, experiencing little rain. It is typically hot and dry during summer and severely cold in winter.

Shengcun told the China News Service that artificial rainfall enhancement had increased precipitation by 55 billion cubic meters from 2006 to 2016, equivalent to about 150 percent of water contained in the Three Gorges reservoir. The Three Gorges is a hydroelectric dam in China, with the world's largest power station with a capacity of 22,500 MW.

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Traditionally, rainmaking process or “cloud-seeding” means rocket-launching chemicals into clouds which accelerate the creation of ice crystals that eventually become rain. China also uses military aircraft for those purposes.

Rainmaking is also a popular way to “clean up” air in China where heavy smog is a big problem for many cities.

China’s eco-crisis: 60% of underground water polluted http://t.co/PNe9muNX1r
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The practice of weather modification has become more frequent across the country in recent years, including for major public events. In 2008, China launched over 1,100 rockets containing silver iodide into Beijing's skies before the Olympics opening ceremony to disperse clouds and keep the Olympics rain-free.
Beijing has a “development plan” for weather modification until 2020.

https://www.rt.com/business/374926-china-region-rainmaking-project/

China aims to make it rain in Gobi desert


Calum MacLeod, Beijing
January 25 2017, 12:00am, The Times



Chinese rainmakers shoot clouds with chemical-carrying shells to attempt to increase rainfallAFP/Getty ImagesThe rainmakers outside Beijing were credited with keeping the Olympic opening ceremony dry in 2008. Now officials hope that China’s expanding “weather modification” arsenal will dump more water on its driest region.
The northwest, a desert-heavy area stretching into central Asia and including parts of the Gobi, is the site of a £134 million project to increase rain and snowfall by shooting clouds with chemical-carrying shells or spraying directly from aircraft.
Many western scientists doubt that these rain-inducing efforts deliver, but China claims that its army of 40,000 rainmakers brings billions of cubic metres of extra rain each year.
China will buy and modify four planes, upgrade eight more, develop almost 900 rocket launchers and build 1,000 ovens in the provinces of Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu,…

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/china-aims-to-make-it-rain-in-gobi-desert-nw2glb86p

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[donnay]

But...but...Al Gore told us it is climate change.

 

[BubbleBarn]

Sounds and looks a lot like Chemtrails to me!

 

[Zippyjuan]

Cloud seeding can't make it rain unless there is already enough moisture in the sky for there to be rain.