ideas ◆ Members Who Owns the Weather? Cloud seeding, solar geoengineering, and the coming property disputes of the sky. T Tom Ellison December 21, 2025 · 5 min read · Who Owns the Weather?. Photo: Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Longform's reader requires JavaScript. The full text of this story is available through our content service.