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“As you know, the teradients drive the winds The winds drive the ocean currents, and together they produce either dry air orthethem to feed their massive populations”

New ani over India and into Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand

“We know all this,” Mustafa of Pakistan said abruptly “We have seen this demonstration before While they have abundant crops, our lands remain dry Your sands are parched We have co this for we have invested a fortune in your scheme”

“Yes, that’s right,” another representative said

“Would I have called you all together if I had no proof?”

“If you have it, show us,” Xhou demanded

Jinn tapped the reain

“Three years ago we began to seed the horde into the eastern quadrant of the Indian Ocean”

On screen, a sle appeared near the equator

“Each year—with your funds—we have seeded further sections Each year, the horde, as proo it covered ten percent of the target area”

The irregular triangle elongated and stretched with the current A second curving section stretched toward it from the west

“A year ago it reached thirty percent saturation”

Another click, another diagra across the southern loop of the Indian Ocean current

“We already know that the rains have becohtest in decades This year they will be waiting on clouds that do not come”

He clicked the remote one more time The sparse black swaths had thinned, but a thicker, darker pattern in the central section of the Indian Ocean had grown Through the natural action of the ocean currents, and Jinn’s hly concentrated in an area known to oceanographers as a gyre, the center of the Great Whirl Concentrated this way, it would produce a far stronger effect on the water temperature, and the weather that flowed from it