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AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez The world is arguably experiencing the first biowar in history. This is not to say that any country deliberately manufactured covid or released bioweapons, but as recent reporting from the New York Times shows, the Chinese government tried to exploit it politically, perhaps calculating that a pandemic would hurt more complex economies than simpler ones. A great power competition has crossed over into the biology of the planet. No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored th...

Humans have dreamed of controlling the weather for millennia. But it wasn’t until 1946 that scientists at General Electric discovered that dry ice can create precipitation when it interacts with clouds under certain conditions https://t.co/WfV4yxkogwpic.twitter.com/4zCCLzxJp5 By 1953, roughly 10% of the land area of the U.S. had been targeted for cloud seeding. 12 years later, the government was spending millions of dollars on weather-modification research each year, and 15 other companies st...

A Last month, 16 “artificial rain enhancement rockets” were launched off the back of a pickup truck 300 miles south of Beijing. The operation, ordered up by the Juye County Meteorological Bureau in response to a local drought, was reportedly a success. Over the next 24 hours, the county received more than two inches of rain that, according to local officials, alleviated the drought, lowered the risk of forest fires and improved air quality. It sounds like something out of a cartoon. Bu...