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Just last Thursday the office claimed to have opened the heavens by firing off 163 cigarette-sized sticks and seven rockets into the sky, bringing as much as 11.2 millimeters of water to a parched, dusty and polluted Beijing, in the heaviest rainfall so far this spring.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
According to some poepl and sources, the US government has and does use really advanced weather modification tech, like cloud busters and scalar weapons. And some people believe thats what chemtrails are for too.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Cloud seeding clearly works but has little effect unless you invested insane levels of equipment into it. A company in the US created this stuff (dynogel I think ) non toxic powder that absorbs like 100x its weight in water and turns to a gel that is then broken down by sea water.
But to have any effect on say a hurricane you would need hundreds of C-5 galaxies full of the stuff all dumping it on the hurricane non stop.
Originally posted by infinite8
As far as hurricanes are concerned Ben Livingston begs to differ. He believes that it can be done relatively easy.
Originally posted by J_3
Is this not great news for people argueing the use of chem trails in US and britain? Atleast China isn't hiding this information.
Originally posted by purplemonkey
i agree with the previous two posters altering weather will more than likely be unsustainable. sure it will be good short term but the long term effects won't be positive.
Originally posted by Kinesis
There's isn't enough long term data
Originally posted by Essan
And nearly everyone else disagrees
Originally posted by J_3
No. Unless they want to demonstrate their ignorance
Cloud seeding does not take place in clear skies nor does it occur at high altitude. it is not carried out by commercial jets and is not visible in any way from the ground (partly because the cloud being seeded is in the way )
Originally posted by apc
You just had to do it...
IMO, screwing with the atmosphere intentionally is more dangerous than unintentionally.
Localized weather modification is extremely small scale now.
But as understanding improves, this can eventually lead to global modification. Does that seem really bad to anyone else?
Originally posted by StellarX
Why? Don't you think humanity could benefit in general if we could at some point in the future regulate our climate as we saw fit? Why would that be a bad thing?
Nope. If we can chop down entire forest and pollute vast river systems while hunting to extinction many species we can just as well try to manage the global climate and see if we can negate some of the damage by such means. Sure it's going to be abused but so can everything else.!
Originally posted by StellarX
Why bother making a claim that is entirely indefensible?
Stellar
Originally posted by Kinesis
I don't know if you really don't mean what you're writing and you're being sarcastic, or if you're serious. The intensity and frequency of hurricanes and tornados is natures way of ridding the upper atmosphere of foreign pollutants.
Air currents near the stratosphere already move at great velocities.
When these air masses at the top meet with the warmer air masses on the ground, this manifests in destructive centirugal weather patterns.
Nature did not intend to have stagnant smog clouds loom overhead, nor did nature intend for factories, smelters and oil refineries to bellow huge amounts of exhaust fumes into the atmosphere.
It's assumed that silver ionized aerosol techniques will provide a quick fix to decades of unabated pollution. Guess what, that assumption is the worst possible guess anybody could have come up with.