ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. China wants to control the weather with Kirk Clyatt

One of its declared goals that has received less attention, is that is that by 2025 its weather modification programme will allow China to control rain and snow across an area that is more than one-and-a-half times the size of India, or 20 times the size of the UK.

China’s State Council said weather modification will "intensify" in areas of mitigating drought, hail, fires and high temperatures, while also assisting agricultural production and preserving ecologically protected areas.

We don’t know how successful will China be in controlling their own weather but what will the impacts be on neighbouring countries? How will their weather be affected by these technologies and experiments?

And as China ramps up its investments in weather modification technologies, shouldn’t rich countries like the US be doing the same - rather than wasting money and enriching millionaires on renewable energy subsidies that seriously impact energy security and costs to consumers.

We talk to resident meteorologist Kirk Clyatt about weather modification and recent developments in this area.