{"id":447869,"date":"2020-12-05T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/china-is-rolling-out-an-enormous-weather-modification-system.php"},"modified":"2020-12-05T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:58:36","slug":"china-is-rolling-out-an-enormous-weather-modification-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/china-is-rolling-out-an-enormous-weather-modification-system.php","title":{"rendered":"China Is Rolling Out an Enormous \u201cWeather Modification\u201d System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/12\/china-rolling-out-enormous-weather-modification-system-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"China plans to expand its weather modification system to cover 5.5 million square miles. Neighboring India is worried it could become a weapon.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Cloud Cover<\/h2><p>This week, the Chinese government announced that it plans to drastically increase its use of technology that artificially changes the weather.<\/p><p>Cloud seeding technology, or systems that can blasts silver molecules into the sky to prompt condensation and cloud formation, has been around for decades, and China <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/3-chinas-weather-controlling-tech-can-make-it-rain-on-demand\">makes frequent use<\/a> of it. But now, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/03\/asia\/china-weather-modification-cloud-seeding-intl-hnk\/index.html\">CNN <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/03\/asia\/china-weather-modification-cloud-seeding-intl-hnk\/index.html\">reports<\/a> that China wants to increase the total size of its weather modification test area to 5.5 million square miles by 2025 &mdash; a huge increase,&nbsp;and an area larger than that of the entire country of India, which could affect the environment on an epic scale and even potentially spur conflict with nearby countries.<\/p><h2>Fog Of War<\/h2><p>Most notably, China and India share a hotly-disputed border that they&rsquo;ve violently clashed over as recently as this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/17\/asia\/india-china-aksai-chin-himalayas-intl-hnk\/index.html\"><em>CNN <\/em>has previously reported<\/a>. India&rsquo;s agriculture relies on a monsoon season that&rsquo;s already grown unpredictable due to climate change, prompting experts in the country to worry that China may use its ability to control rain and snowfall <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/prime\/economy-and-policy\/china-has-built-up-its-muscle-on-how-to-turn-weather-into-a-weapon-can-india-match-up-to-it\/primearticleshow\/71798844.cms?from=mdr\">as a weapon<\/a>.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Lack of proper coordination of weather modification activity (could) lead to charges of &lsquo;rain stealing&rsquo; between neighboring regions,&rdquo; National Taiwan University researchers conclude in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0016718517302336\">a 2017 paper<\/a> published in <em>Geoforum<\/em>.<\/p><h2>Global Tampering<\/h2><p>In the past, China has used its weather modification tech to seed clouds well in advance of major events like the 2008 Olympics and political meetings so the events themselves happen under clear skies, <em>CNN <\/em>reports.<\/p><p>But this planned expansion of the system means that other countries may be subject to its meteorological whims &mdash; seeding international conflict in addition to clouds.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/03\/asia\/china-weather-modification-cloud-seeding-intl-hnk\/index.html\">China to expand weather modification program to cover area larger than India<\/a> [<em>CNN<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on weather modification:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/3-chinas-weather-controlling-tech-can-make-it-rain-on-demand\">China&rsquo;s New &ldquo;Weather-Controlling Tech&rdquo; Could Make it Rain on Demand<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/china-rolling-out-enormous-weather-modification-system\">China Is Rolling Out an Enormous &ldquo;Weather Modification&rdquo; System<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Go here to read the rest:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/china-rolling-out-enormous-weather-modification-system\" title=\"China Is Rolling Out an Enormous &ldquo;Weather Modification&rdquo; System\">China Is Rolling Out an Enormous &ldquo;Weather Modification&rdquo; System<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cloud Cover This week, the Chinese government announced that it plans to drastically increase its use of technology that artificially changes the weather.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/china-is-rolling-out-an-enormous-weather-modification-system.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}