China has learned how to control the weather

China has successfully changed the weather in a literal sense, a new study claims.

According to the South China Morning Post, scientists say that during the Chinese Communist Party’s centennial celebration in the summer, meteorological services successfully changed the weather over Beijing to clear the sky and reduce air pollution for the tens of thousands of people gathered for the commemorative ceremony in Tiananmen Square.

They did this by using cloud seeding technology, a long-studied but controversial process that involves launching silver iodide particles into clouds to attract water droplets to change the weather.

The paper, prepared by researchers at China’s Tsinghua University, comes a year after reports that China is dramatically expanding its weather modification program to cover an area of 5.5 million square miles with the test by 2025. This is larger than all of India and could lead to serious problems for China’s neighbors.

While this is not the first time China has used cloud seeding technology – it dabbled with it back in the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics – it appears to be one of the most successful and extensive tests conducted not only by the CCP, but around the world.

It also has not been widely publicized, and part of the article by researchers from Tsinghua University focused on the evidence they found that cloud seeding did take place, including eyewitness reports of rockets launching into the sky from mountains outside Beijing before the July 1 centennial, as well as evidence of rocket debris afterward.

According to the SCMP, meteorologists had to overcome a number of obstacles to successfully change the weather. Pollution on the eve of the CCP’s centennial celebration was particularly severe, the report noted, and it was also China’s wettest summer on record. Nevertheless, pollution levels in Beijing reportedly went from “moderate” to “good” on July 1, and the rain in the middle of the day was indeed artificial.

Although the U.S. and other countries have tried to use cloud seeding technology to change the weather, professional advocates of China have expressed fears that the CCP might use it for nefarious military purposes – despite the fact that the U.S. military has been trying to induce rain since at least 1967.

But this successful and massive operation in Beijing raises important questions about the potential military use of the technology. If one country is able to control its own weather, it could theoretically do so in other countries as well – which is unwelcome news to anyone not interested in perpetual warfare.

Moreover, although cloud seeding is often presented as a potential solution to climate change, the technology has not been successful long enough to measure how it affects natural weather patterns, let alone its impact on climate change and human health.

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