Posted on 02/08/2011 8:11:06 PM PST by blam
China Drought Could Be Worst In 200 Years
By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist
Feb 8, 2011; 10:52 AM ET
Drought in a key grain-growing region of China could be the worst in 200 years if significant rain or snow does not fall before the end of February.
Shandong, a northern coastal province, has had exceptionally low precipitation, as little as about 5 percent, since September.
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Shandong lies at the heart of the winter wheat belt of China, which is centered upon the North China Plain. Reports have suggested that about one third of the wheat is being adversely affected by the four-month drought.
Various market factors, weather among them, have been pressuring agricultural commodity prices such as that of wheat. Continuing drought in China could bring further price pressure to bear.
AccuWeather.com forecasters believe that the dry weather will dominate the North China Plain for another five to seven days. Thereafter, a shift in steering winds could bring light to moderate rain and snow to the region during the following week.
Stealing?
Isn’t that water just going out to sea anyway? via st lawrence seaway?
Sure beats low prices and devalued money.
They hve almost 2 billion people...How about a bucket brigade!
This is scary....because Communist China is now the biggest Ag producer on the planet...even though they have little arable land (6-7% arable land)
You think food riots are bad now....it will get worse if the Communist Chinese drought continues.
Of course, it was the brillant (/sarc) idea of Free Trade Communists, who support Free Trade with Communist China...to make Communist China the worlds top Ag producer. The US now gets a large percentage of its food products from Communist China...when the US previously was self-supporting with food (now has to import).
Yeah, I think Jesse's imagination is getting the best of him. Too much time fantasizing conspiracy theories, not enough time on geography.
Poor guy obviously never tried to get a Chinese tanker with a "huge bladder" behind it through the Welland Canal.
Hey, China. We’ll send you food and water if you promise to lend us another $10 trillion.
Maybe Al Gore should head over to China with his snake oil.
I only saw the Jesse Ventura episode about it. I have done no personal research to verify it.
According to JV, China is purchasing water through Evian or Perrier or some company like that .... so much so that the amounts of water they are draining from the lakes are actually lowering the water levels in the area.
He pointed to corrupt govt officials and lobbyists who have tinkered in the US and other countries with the laws and regs concerning water rights, etc. He showed pictures of these huge ships with even more huge bladders full of fresh water being towed behind them taking them to China where they are suffering the drought referred to in this thread, supposedly to recharge their own depleted aquifers.
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