China Seems to be Ahead of us in Weather Manipulation—Surprised?
My dad used to have a saying—listen to what the weather forecaster has to say, and then figure on the opposite. That was several years ago and was kind of a family joke. We just kind of accepted whatever happened. Now, all over the world our weather forecasting computer models are failing, which leads to the subject of weather manipulation. Back in 2005, the issue of weather manipulation was a popular subject but not heavy in its implications. Today, with all the latest technology available in the world, it is an entirely different matter.
Weather manipulation goes back a long ways to cloud seeding, which is simply an attempt to change the weather—usually to bring rain into a drought region, removing rain from a flooded area, or suppressing hail. Technically weather manipulation or cloud seeding is “an effort of man to change naturally occurring weather, for the benefit of someone.” It was begun in 1924 with Professor Emory Leon at Harvard University. He is known to have scientifically dispensed charged sand from an airplane to attempt weather modification (James E. McDonald, “An Historical Note on an Early Cloud-Modification Experiment,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 42, p. 195, March 1961). But due to the lack of money, the project never actually got off the ground which prevented our society from benefiting from the idea—at that time.
Weather manipulation is a subject that our military and government have wanted to control for quite awhile for wars, space travel, etc. With this in mind, it is no wonder that scientist Tom Bearden says, “extensive weather engineering and control has been very active all over the U.S. for some time” (Conspiracy Nation, 7/27/2003, “NASA Investigates Itself”. Web online at http://www.shout.net/%7Ebigred/nasa.htm). And believe me, when one country has their hands in the pie, everyone does! And China is ahead of the pack on this one.
About a year ago, over 37,000 peasants were hired by the Chinese government to help produce rain in China’s dry and parched areas. Shooting shells at passing clouds above them, these men used a 37 mm anti-aircarft gun to successfully accomplish what the earlier cloud seeders attempted to do with their airplanes. They watered their country’s crops, they destroyed forest fires, and broke up hailstorms which damaged lots of land and property. And oddly enough, when a gigantic hailstorm pelted their capital with sand, they shot their shells and rockets toward the sky and successfully coaxed coming rains to wash the storm’s sand and grit from the city’s streets.
The young rainmaker’s next project? To make sure their country stays dry for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This is being accomplished by working with their meteorologists to watch the radar in the capital. Silver ioxide will be sent into pregnant rain clouds, preventing any moisture from falling onto the lighting of the Olympic flame—and upon the proud athletes at China’s new National Stadium. And NASA themselves are beginning to step-up to the plate regarding weather manipulation, with NASA researchers sending different types of radars into “unusual thunderstorms in the tropics.” Referred to as unique full body scans, what has developed is a demonstration of the inner workings of storm clouds—an outside classroom, so to speak. Step one of many for NASA in the coming years.
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