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Sandstorm days in BJ went from ~30s per year in 50s to single digits post 2000s. It's working, but sandstorm days also picking back up due to climate change (also increasing floods and other enviroment disasters), so more accurately to suggest it's mitigating.

Every project has critics, but it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. See the man, the wife, the donkey, and the critics.

Yes, it's possible it will not deliver, but this seems to be classic way to combat desertification. Africa uses similar approach for Sahara.

That is probably why China is doing weather modification:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/asia/china-weather-modificati...

However people in India may have something concerns:

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/science-technology/-weather-m...

Yeah we are like kids playing match sticks!!! Just because we can, we shouldn't just do it!