The Chinese government will implement its weather modification programs in the next five years to increase rainfall in half the country
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China is not going to wait for climate change to ruin their plans to become the world’s great power in the next decade. The Government of the Asian giant has recently announced its intention to expand its experimental weather modification program with the goal of controlling the weather in more than half of its territory, that is, more than 5.5 million square kilometers (11 times the size of Spain and approximately the size of India).
Specifically, the intention of the Chinese authorities is to control the level of rainfall in large agricultural areas of the country to improve productivity and expanding crops to areas threatened by desertification. Similarly, controlling the climate in these regions will help prevent natural disasters (due to excessively concentrated rains, fires or extreme droughts) and facilitate the settlement in unattractive places for agricultural life such as the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, something that, on the other hand, could be related to a strategy to colonize the country of the Dalai Lama that has been occupied since the 1950s.
China will manipulate the climate over the Tibetan plateau and the Yangtze and Yellow River basin. The IPCC and the neighbors, well thank you. GRETAAAAhttps://t.co/tdANvDiaD8
– Pablo Diaz de Brito (@ pablodb1) December 5, 2020
The method of achieving climate modification has been tested for six years and consists of injecting silver iodide into high humidity clouds to facilitate condensation of the millions of water droplets and get their precipitation in the form of rain. At the moment, the Chinese government has invested in the development and application of the weather modification technology more than 1 billion euros but they expect its large-scale application to generate much more than the costs involved.
Although it is the first country in the world to have announced its firm intention to systematically modify its climate, other countries such as the United States have spent decades researching methods to “seed” clouds in especially dry places in the west of the country such as the state of Colorado where the lack of snowfall that occurs every so often puts the entire ski and tourism industry in danger in the Rocky Mountains. It is estimated that thanks to the seeding of clouds can increase snowfall by 5% to 15% although in optimal conditions they can rise 30%.
The risks of seeding clouds in the sky to combat climate change https://t.co/za3dtQxxIg
– Science (@CienciaOn) November 25, 2020
A similar method has been applied in states like California, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming to increase the snow level in their ski resorts while other states such as Texas or North Dakota have planted clouds to ensure rainfall that avoid drought in key harvest months. A total of 10 states in the South and the West have state or municipal weather modification programs.
However, weather modification programs have not been without controversy due to the doubtful cost / benefit of the same as well as the environmental implications of modifying something as delicate as the climate of a region. That is why the China macroproject could have unpredictable consequences not only for the country but for neighboring countries and, in general, the entire East Asian climate.
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