Seedy Solution: China Tries to Keep Nature from Raining on the Asian Games
Friday, July 24, 2009 - 17:07
in Earth & Climate
Feeling confident after recent successful attempts to control rainfall in the country, China is planning to seed clouds around the 16th Asian Games next year with chemicals that will keep it from raining on its parade, or at least the games' opening and closing ceremonies. Even though the November 2010 games to be held in Guangzhou's 80,000-seat Guangdong Olympic Stadium will take place during southern China's supposed dry season, the Olympic Council of Asia, the continent's main sports governing body, announced earlier this week that liquid nitrogen, dry ice and silver iodide will be used to all but eliminate any chance of precipitation. [More]