Like something from that (remake) movie THE AVENGERS or something Dr. Evil would cook up.. only it's here, it's now and it's Chinese:

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/0...nners-can-pla/

Clouds for sale! Chinese businesses (and event planners) can play God

Posted Jun 8th 2007 4:48PM by Sarah Gilbert
Filed under: China, Agriculture
I come from a long line of farmers and ranchers, and I thought I'd heard of just about every way to inspire rain: Let's see, we have our praying, our rain dancing, and the always-useful "if I water the garden this evening it's sure to rain tonight." But in China, cloud seeding -- the practice of literally creating clouds, with or without rain -- is a booming business. And in the strange world-that-is-China, it's the government who's selling.

The odd thing is who the buyers are. When the "Office of Artificial Weather Inducement" was created, it was meant as a public service -- to wash away pollution, for example or (even stranger) to create clouds in the day or days before an event (it's planned for the 2008 Summer Olympics) to increase the likelihood the event itself will be clean, bright and sunny.