<i>... as well as 37,000 part-time workers--mostly peasant farmers--who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.</i><p>Well, let's hope we never have to attack China...
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye</a>
This is Vietnam era tech, and the US has used it before.
Wish I could upvote this one, weather modification has always fascinated me. I suspect the Chinese aren't concerned about global warming because they expect their weather modification technology to have caught up by the global warming is a problem. I wish the US and China would get in a weather modification contest in the style of the old space race; it would be really good for humanity.