China's Massive Dam Changing Weather[Three Gorges Dam]

Discovery News ^ | 22 June 2007 | Larry O'Hanlon

[TommyDale]

Wasn’t there once a claim that large dams and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere are causing the Earth to “wobble” more on its axis, thus causing extreme changes in weather? LOL!

[Enterprise]

"Three Gorges is a great laboratory for studying how well local climate changes caused by very local land-use changes can be detected and distinguished from larger-scale global climate change."

And since it was constructed by peasant labor, its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

[rockinqsranch]

“...Earth to “wobble” more on its axis,...”

I think I read something about that once at FlatEarth.dum., or some gravity impaired site.

[Vigilanteman]

Among the surprise weather changes has been the increase in rainfall between the Daba and Oinling mountains, said Wu.

If Wu is really surprised, then he's never lived in Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago or any other area near the Great Lakes.

Lake effect precipitation near (and especially downwind) large inland bodies of water is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

[Calpernia]

Dam!

:)

[50sDad]

Why isn’t Al Gore writing a book on this right now?

[randog]

...its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

BTW--How are those cracks in the dam doing?

[Enterprise]

Probably getting wider as we speak!

[Redcitizen]

Cheap Chinese cement just like cheap Chinese Walmart goods?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well then, Greenpeace will just have to mount an eco-guerilla operation to take that sucker down.

[Alter Kaker]

And since it was constructed by peasant labor, its ultimate collapse will also be a great laboratory.

As opposed to Hoover Dam, which was constructed in the middle of the Great Depression entirely by Harvard-educated itinerant bond traders?

I'm not sure I get your point.

[Enterprise]

You are clueless.

[feedback doctor]

actual meteorological data suggest that the reservoir is cooling its valley,

I see a solution to a problem here people. More dams = more cooling.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[beebuster2000]

In all, a whopping 62 square miles of land are expected to see weather effects from the dam, he said.

What? That's only 10 miles by 6.2 miles. Nothing.

[Tallguy]

Are they trying to say that Beijing didn’t get an Environmental Impact Study??? OK, who screwed up?

[Centurion2000]

Wasn’t there once a claim that large dams and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere are causing the Earth to “wobble” more on its axis, thus causing extreme changes in weather? LOL!

That would be on par with saying that using a permanent marker on a white onion will change the way it rolls.

[RightWhale]

Of course the dam is large enough to affect weather. The Pyramids at Giza changed the weather in the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea so it hasn’t rained much since construction.

[ApplegateRanch]

Lake effect precipitation near (and especially downwind) large inland bodies of water is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

Somehow, I have to wonder just how much effect Three Gorges will really have:

~3 X the acre-footage of Shasta Lake;

~1/4 the surface area of Salt Lake.

OTOH, Lake Eire is ~5-6 times the surface area of Salt Lake, as well as much deeper.