Actually he's not exactly wrong.
That is actually a geoengineering technique... Cloud Seeding I know it's being researched in the US... not sure about Europe.
Though that rain clouds would reach that far seems a bit... unlikely but I don't really know anything about clouds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
Stealing clouds and rain isn't as absurd as you'd think, and it's likely to become fairly common place.








