For the Olympics, the world's
largest weather modification bureau will set up several banks of rocket launchers outside the city to blast threatening clouds with silver iodide and force them to release their rain before it reaches the Olympic stadium.
Improvements in the capacity to monitor direct and indirect changes on
weather, climate, or
larger Earth systems and to detect unilateral or uncoordinated deployment could help further understanding of albedo
modification and climate science generally.
The purpose behind
weather modification is less megalomaniacal than it sounds at first pass; a
large swath of northeast China, including Beijing, has been mired in a drought for nearly a decade, and the party leadership would like to reverse that trend for both practical reasons and to show the Chinese people exactly who is in charge.
The following SPP 1689 poster will be exhibited at the AGU: GC13C - 1154: The Climate Potentials and Side - Effects of
Large - Scale terrestrial CO2 Removal — Insights from Quantitative Model Assessments — Monday, 15 December 2014, 13:40 - 18:00, Moscone West - Poster Hall, Lena Boysen, Vera Heck, Wolfgang Lucht, Dieter Gerten GC13C - 1155: On nutrients and trace metals: Effects from Enhanced
Weathering — Monday, 14 December 2015, 13:40 - 18:00, Moscone South - Poster Hall, Thorben Amann, Jens Hartmann B23G - 0682: Revisiting ocean carbon sequestration by direct injection: A global carbon budget perspective — Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 13:40 - 18:00, Moscone South - Poster Hall, Fabian Reith, David Keller, Torge Martin, Andreas Oschlies C41B - 0702: Assessing the potential and side effects of ocean albedo
modification in the Arctic — Thursday, 17 December 2015, 08:00 - 12:20, Moscone South - Poster Hall, Nadine Mengis, Andreas Oschlies, David Keller, Torge Martin
The present invention relates to
weather modification and more particularly to the production of rain or snow by introducing into natural atmospheric clouds seeding agents having a high solubility in water and a
large endothermic heat of solution in water.