Posted on 11/01/2009 7:16:56 AM PST by opentalk
BEIJING (AFP) - – Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.
The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.
Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the northern province of Hebei, the eastern port city of Tianjin also got its first snow of the autumn, the report said.
"We wont miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought," the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying.
Chinese meteorologists have for years sought to make rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds.
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These people lie as bad as Obama.
China is known for its’ “special chemicals”.
They must be using HUGE amounts of silver iodide to get that kind of results and whatever rain or snow falls in one place can not fall in another.
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The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide and .... the air of pollution, but there are disputes regarding the Chinese claims. ...
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Imagine being able to make in snow in another country. Then imagine being able to use it as a weapon of war by finding a way to somehow contaminate the snow with some kind of WMD chemical.
...like anthrax.
Imagine it actually snowing anthrax!
I don’t trust the Chinese for anything.
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