Weather Modification
Weather modification (also known as weather control) is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather. The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which increases rain or snow, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply. Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hail or hurricanes, from occurring; or of provoking damaging weather against the enemy, as a tactic of military or economic warfare like Operation Popeye, where clouds were seeded to prolong the monsoon in Vietnam. Weather modification in warfare has been banned by the United Nations …
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UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 1 March 2023 English
This Signals Spotlight – the first of its kind for UNDP – is part of our effort to become more agile and anticipatory. It draws on our prototype Future Trends …
climate change to live somewhere else). Weather modification can alleviate some symptoms of global warming … Anja Chalmin, ”Quarterly Review 1 (Part 1): Weather modification – current developments and lessons learned … Anja Chalmin, ”Quarterly Review 1 (Part 1): Weather modification – current developments and lessons learned …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 28 February 2023 English
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) convened a multidisciplinary expert panel to undertake a rapid review of the state of scientific research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)
operational SRM deployment would be distinct from weather modification. While an operational SRM deployment would … potentially change the climate everywhere, weather modification typically aims to produce limited regional-scale … surface temperature. In contrast, local weather modification has a negligible effect on the planetary …
SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute · 19 December 2022 English
In the past, such assumptions have led to multiple conflict and justice concerns, including the possibility of ‘violent environments in the context of reserve and protected forest areas’.82 The use …
security institutions deploying analogous weather modification techniques in competition or conflict with …
CFR: Council on Foreign Relations · 1 November 2022 English
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borne of suspi- cion about how one country’s weather modification efforts could affect its neighbors. (Ethiopia …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 19 October 2022 English
This is the first time that the IAEA reviewed the cooperation among the US, UK and Australia over nuclear submarine deal at the general conference level, since the Chinese side …
This operation is in joint efforts of the Weather Modification Center under the China Meteorological Administration …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 19 October 2022 English
This is the first time that the IAEA reviewed the cooperation among the US, UK and Australia over nuclear submarine deal at the general conference level, since the Chinese side …
This operation is in joint efforts of the Weather Modification Center under the China Meteorological Administration …
UN CCD: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification · 26 July 2022 English
The notable impact is In Europe, drought has manifested in the past that the increases in drought duration, intensity three decades through increased water scarcity and severity in Central America, …
(2010) Regulation on the Administration of Weather Modification (2002) National Flood and Drought Plan (2006) …
CFR: Council on Foreign Relations · 21 April 2022 English
The time for such investments in research and rules is now, while the science of sunlight reflection remains rel- atively speculative and its governance immature, even as the perils of …
in existing U.S. statutes, including the Weather Modification Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act … within the definition of “weather modification” under the Weather Modification Reporting Act, which provides … org/stable/23606647. 85. On China’s recent interest in weather modification, see Helen Davidson, “China ‘Modified’ the … 1126/science.1232527. 109. That act “defines weather modification as any activity performed with the intention …
WEF: World Economic Forum · 28 January 2022 English
This report continues to leverage the collective intelligence of an expanding community of the world’s foremost risk experts, convened by the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Practice: the Global Risks …
economies. By facing narrower access to weather modification or solar radiation trade finance, they risk …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 15 November 2021 English
bases in precision strike capabilities, superiority guarantor of strategic Asia as well as the United in next-generation ISR, and ballistic stability in Asia, the United States’ closest allies in the …
Nuclear Arsenal ‘in Response environmental weather modification techniques to US Pressure’ but does not …
