The weather changers

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For centuries we've made sacrifices, sent prayers to gods and summoned witches, in an attempt to bend the weather to our will. Science suggests now we might actually be able to do it. Weather modifiers are employed to make it rain, suppress hail and enhance snow packs. It is big business, from the UAE to Chile, Thailand to China, interest and investment is global. Kim Chakanetsa asks what the weather changers are actually doing, if it really works and if so, is it problem free?

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0:27.0	Lord, bring down your nourishing reins.
0:29.8	That the land may be quenched.
0:32.2	Lord, we ask you bring down our nourishing reins.
0:34.4	Praise and rituals for sun and rain.
0:36.8	A common place and cultures and religions across the world.
0:40.5	Stories of rain makers using song, dance and smoke.
0:44.9	To sun storms permeate our mythologies.
0:49.1	The idea of being able to dull up just the right amount of sun
0:52.7	or snow to bend the weather to our will
0:55.6	is an enormously appealing one.
0:58.6	But can we actually do it?
1:01.5	Central China's Hubei Province has announced a weather modification programme.
1:06.7	Weather modification has taken over where rain-making rituals
1:10.0	prayers left off and the world is spending millions of dollars on it.
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