“It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature”
Oh, we’ve done it before in the USA. It’s nothing new. But China? China manipulates the weather on a pretty regular basis, and for many different reasons. Sometimes to cleanse the air of pollution by making it rain, or by preventing it from raining if the time isn’t right, or curbing drought by bringing on rain. They’ve done it all. It’s geoengineering and as innocent as it may seem, one needs to ask is it safe? As we are preached toabout manmade global warming and the havoc it is causing upon this planet Earth, do we really want to pursue other types of manipulation?
“I don’t feel like God, says fruit farmer Yu Yonggang. I’m just an ordinary worker.” But he has a miraculous sideline, making rain with artillery shells and forming part of the world’s largest rainmaking force. By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
“If climate change turns ugly, then many countries will start looking at desperate measures,” says David Victor, an energy policy expert at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Logic points to a big risk of unilateral geoengineering. Unlike controlling emissions, which requires collective action, most highly capable nations could deploy geoengineering systems on their own.”
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Unilateral geoengineering worries experts for two reasons. First, the massive side effects; what it could do to the world’s rainfall, for example. Second, once started, geoengineering would probably have to be continued, as stopping could bring an abrupt change in climate. “One of the many dangers with unilateral geoengineering is that once a country starts, it becomes very hard to stop,” Victor says. “Removing a warming mask, even if it is a flawed mask, would expose the planet to even more rapid and probably dangerous warming.”