The number of civilians killed in armed conflict in Afghanistan rose 40 percent last year, to a record 2,118, a U.N. report said Tuesday. Militants were responsible for 55 percent of the deaths, but an additional 39 percent of the victims were killed by coalition and Afghan forces, said the report by the U.N. Assistance [...]
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The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Gaza, instability in Pakistan and the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran would have been more than enough to crowd out any thought of long-range planning. Now the Middle East is in flames again. And yet a wide range of foreign policy experts are urging the new [...] Meteorologists dispatched eight planes to release rain dispersal chemicals and fired 241 rockets into incoming clouds to ensure a dry Beijing Olympics closing ceremony, state media said Monday.Rain clouds from the north of China had started to move towards the capital on Sunday afternoon, Guo Hu, head of the Beijing Observatory, was quoted by [...] Mainstream media are starting now to mention weather modification programs linking such programs to possible relief from weather phenomena bound to be intensified due to climate change. According to Roelof Bruintjes of the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Colorado, USA, we can measure clouds so well now that we can get answers regarding [...] According Boston Globe, in 2003 the United States National Academy of Sciences proposed the development of “a coordinated national program” to “conduct sustained research effort” into weather modification and in March 2005 Kay Bailey Hutchison, a senator from Texas introduced a bill to create a national Weather Modification Operations and Research Board. The concerns [...] While the big climate change issues have been discussed in Bali, Indonesia countries demonstrate no hesitation to use temporary fixes. China has succeeded in creating another human-made snowfall in the Tibet Autonomous Region to alleviate drought. Technicians took advantage of the suitable weather conditions to create the artificial snowfall, according to the head of the [...] Weather modification is happening for more than fifty years in North Dakota. Six counties in the state have weather modification programs and six more are planning for such programs in 2006, according to Weather Modification Inc., a company that is executing the weather modification program for the state. While some of the population remains sceptical [...] The Kansas Weather Modification Program covers an area of 8 000 miles and it is used mostly for hail reduction. The progam is funded by state and local sources and was extended into northwest Kansas in the late 1990s. Interestingly, though, the program ceased after residents complained that cloud seeding is reducing rainfall.
There are many news in various media today about the decision of China to use weather modification techniques to prevent a possible rain at the opening of the Olympic games. Here is some information about the weather modification program in China. More than 30 provinces and province-level municipalities are employing more than 32 000 people [...] India has an active weather modification program that is conducted through the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences and Weather Modification Technologies. Cloud seeding operations have been conducted in the last three years in 10 districts. Cloud-seeding for more rain, The Times of India, June 24, 2007 |
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