Related: Spy agencies fund climate research in hunt for weather weapon, scientist fears Like so many military experiments, these trials failed but cloud seeding became a reality in 1967/8 when the US's Operation Popeye increased rainfall by an estimated 30% over parts of Vietnam in an attempt to reduce the movement of soldiers and resources into South Vietnam.
The British peer said the UN Relief and Works Agency had only a finite amount of food and other essential supplies, adding: "We were concerned that over time supplies were running out," prompting the agency and other UN agencies to launch an appeal to get more resources into the area.
The 62-page rank-'em-and-spank-'em study, Waste and Opportunity 2015, was published Thursday by advocacy nonprofits As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
This is an area where the PM's overall approach is we should talk to the agencies about the resources and powers they need and work with them to make sure, as a government, we are putting in place all we need to keep us safe".
In the commercial domain it will mainly provide opportunities for business transactions, but for the BBC it's a whole other resource.
The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association, the industry trade body, calculates that this could be doubled, and a tenth of the UK's domestic gas needs could be supplied by biogas, given the UK's resources in waste and agricultural products.
This would result in a 25% reduction in available resources for the NHS.
Better Together, which was conscious that the SNP had spent months marshalling the Scottish government's civil service resources behind the white paper, was nervous that the document could present a substantial threat.
A good place to start is by exploring the history of immigration and emigration to and from Britain with this lesson plan by Teaching Resources Support, suitable for key stage 3 students.
I'm not suggesting that it was perfect; mental health has long been the Cinderella service of the NHS, and resources, even then, were stretched.
As the international effort to find and rescue the girls gathered momentum, with military and intelligence resources from the US, UK, France, Israel and Canada pouring into Nigeria, and the #bringbackourgirls social media campaign exceeded 1m tweets, there was mounting criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's slow response to the crisis.
