captainmorgan
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China is seeding clouds to replenish its shrinking Yangtze River | CNN
The Yangtze had dried up in parts as swaths of China battle drought and the nation's worst heat waves in more than 60 years.
Climate in the 21st Century
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captainmorgan
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Southwest China's drought and heat waves has their rivers and reservoirs drying up, they have lost 50% of their electrical output from dams since the start of August and are rationing electricity in the region.
Roger A. Shrubber
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but it's just normal weather patterns....the republicans told me so, and the owners of big businesses told me so, so it must be true?
it'll all go back to normal next year, right?....right??...RIGHT!?!?
it'll all go back to normal next year, right?....right??...RIGHT!?!?
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
yup, normal weather.
Only the climate is changing.
(trooper to Kenobi: Move along)
captainmorgan
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River Loire is the longest river in France and is drying up.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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We should all get together and have a world “ Rain Dance” day and see if our combined spiritual energy will work. It can’t hurt. 
Roger A. Shrubber
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sure it can, we'll get all sweaty and hot and drop dead from dehydration...We should all get together and have a world “ Rain Dance” day and see if our combined spiritual energy will work. It can’t hurt.
never say "it can't hurt"...it almost always can, and usually does.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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We cAn try to find ways not to make it hurt if we put our minds together
Roger A. Shrubber
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most things that hurt, hurt for a reason.
unless you're very stupid...
you don't stick your hand in a fire twice
you don't piss on an electric fence twice
you don't short out the coil on an older car twice
you don't stick your hand in a running wood chipper twice
you don't vote for a party that shits on the environment twice....
doublejj
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you're still drunk.....
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
meanwhile in Europe
www.reuters.com
Low water levels on Danube reveal sunken WW2 German warships
Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Read an article about Israel doing a nice job with desalination and filling up the sea of Galileo. Jordon in need of water, purchases it from Israel and Israel buys Jordan’s electricity. Well played. As the ice sheets melt humans can take that ocean water that is projected to flood the coast lines and suck it out and use it and in the process stop the costal flooding.
Roger A. Shrubber
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nice idea, but i'm thinking that it wouldn't do much to stop coastal flooding, water runs down hill. No matter where you pump it to, it will eventually run back to the sea.Read an article about Israel doing a nice job with desalination and filling up the sea of Galileo. Jordon in need of water, purchases it from Israel and Israel buys Jordan’s electricity. Well played. As the ice sheets melt humans can take that ocean water that is projected to flood the coast lines and suck it out and use it and in the process stop the costal flooding.
it's kind of expensive as well, but i'm thinking it might be worth it in the southwest pretty soon, and quite possible the whole damn world as things get worse
Dr.Amber Trichome
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It is worth it as well as more progress with weather engineering.
Grandpapy
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It's happening, slowly.
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/desalination/
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/desalination/
Roger A. Shrubber
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weather engineering isn't even really a thing yet, cloud seeding is about as far as we've gotten with it.
anything beyond a very local effect would require technologies we do not yet posses, satellite systems with something like deathray scale lasers, and forcefields, which is starting to get into star trek shit.
but they do still make some pretty amazing discoveries and developments on a regular basis, who knows what the next few years will bring?
injinji
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There are some real risk in what they are doing. One of the few warm water tolerant coral reefs could be in danger if the pipeline goes ahead.Read an article about Israel doing a nice job with desalination and filling up the sea of Galileo. Jordon in need of water, purchases it from Israel and Israel buys Jordan’s electricity. Well played. As the ice sheets melt humans can take that ocean water that is projected to flood the coast lines and suck it out and use it and in the process stop the costal flooding.
captainmorgan
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China plans to use rain-generating chemicals to try to save harvest
Authorities will seed clouds with chemicals and spray crops with a “water retaining agent” to limit evaporation.
Roger A. Shrubber
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"it's not existential yet"...is that what it takes to really get anything done? wait till it actually threatens your existence?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/21/mark-kelly-drought-water-southwest-00052992
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/21/mark-kelly-drought-water-southwest-00052992