The Chinese government plans to seed clouds over Beijing to prompt a cleansing rainfall after the capital was hit by the worst dust storm in five years, state media reported Tuesday.  (CBC News)

I still remember years ago watching Back to the Future II and thinking to myself that the weather control featured in that film was wildly unrealistic.  But here we are today, not much more than 15 years later, and the technology for this type of control over weather systems is already a reality — according to the article in question this has been going on already for “decades”.

Hrmph.  I can already imagine myself as an old man saying things like “back in my day, the weather was unscheduled”…