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The weather changers

The Documentary Podcast

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Weather Modification - The Early Rainmakers and Fakers

Historian Jim Fleming explains the checkered history of weather and climate control. Early rainmakers included James Espie, a theorist of convection. He thought that if you made the convection stronger by lighting giant fires you might be able to enhance the convection. China, Russia, Thailand, India just had a very, very big project. Are you seeing more and more people interested or looking into weather modification? Yes, definitely.

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