China Dialogue

November 4, 2013

The authorities are increasing their cloud-seeding ambitions in response to drought, but many experts are sceptical about the benefits

China has a long history of “rainmaking”, but experts are sharply divided on the merits.
(Image by baike.baidu.com)

Airplanes loaded with cloud-seeding chemicals swept across southwest China early last

month in a bid to bring rain to the drought-parched region. Tens of thousands of rockets and

battalions of cannons stood poised to ambush stray clouds that might pass unwittingly into

view.

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