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The United Arab Emirates and neighboring states were rocked this week by the heaviest rains on record, which resulted in devastating floods, dozens of deaths, significant damage, and diverted flights. A government meteorologist indicated early on that the UAE's well-known geoengineering efforts were at least partly to blame. However, now that there is a body count, the government task force responsible for cloud-seeding missions in the region is attempting to deny responsibility. Liberal media outlets such as the Guardian and Wired and so-called experts have dutifully accepted these denials, insinuating that climate change or other factors may instead be responsible....

Instead of collectively spending $100 billion annually under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement to combat global warming, developed nations should consider investing just $9 billion in a marine cloud whitening project that could prevent global warming for the rest of the 21st century, according to Bjorn Lomborg, director of a Danish think tank. Marine cloud whitening mimics the effects of a volcanic eruption by inserting salt particles into the atmosphere to make clouds denser so they reflect more sunlight back into space. “Spending just $9 billion on 1,900 seawater-spraying boats could prevent all the global warming set to occur this...

Cloud Falls on China's Claim to Stop Rain Andrea Thompson LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Tue Apr 22, 2:02 PM ET Editor's note: Updated at 2:00 pm ET China's plans to force Mother Nature's hand with "cloud seeding" and keep rains at bay during the start of the Olympic Games this August may be all wet, one scientist said today. "I'm very skeptical about what they claim they can do," said Roelof Bruintjes, the lead researcher for U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., at an international symposium on weather modification held today in Westminster, Colo. Chinese officials will...

In 1950, .. Dr. Howell, who participated in early scientific research into cloud seeding set up shop at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn using a police airplane to sprinkle silver iodide crystals into clouds over the Catskill watershed. Rains came and the reservoirs began to rise. ... Just last week, the National research Council issued a report on a two-year $1.1 million cloud seeding effort in Colorado.

Chinese look to weather manipulation to ensure optimum conditions for Olympics (Excerpt) BEIJING’S BUREAUCRATS HAVE also embarked on a Great Leap Forward in manipulating the weather by dispelling rain and fog, trying to ensure that nothing, er, clouds China’s achievements and image during important public events. “We’ll definitely be consulted on how to create beautiful conditions for the Olympics,” says Wang Wang, one of China’s foremost experts at Beijing’s Study Institute of Artificial Influence on the Weather. Rest of article at http://www.msnbc.com/news/786610.asp