Posted on 08/17/2022 1:25:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING (AP) — Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low in a worsening drought, adding to economic strains at a time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power.
Companies in Sichuan province including makers of solar panels, cement and urea closed or reduced production after they were ordered to ration power for up to five days, according to news reports Wednesday. That came after reservoir levels fell and power demand for air conditioning surged in scorching temperatures.
“Leave power for the people,” said an order from the provincial government dated Tuesday.
In Sichuan, which has 94 million people, water levels at hydropower reservoirs are down by as much as half this month, according to the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology.
The power company in Dazhou, a city in Sichuan with 3.4 million people, imposed 2 1/2-hour power cuts this week and expanded that Wednesday to three hours, according to the Shanghai news outlet The Paper. The newspaper Securities Times said office buildings in Chengdu, the provincial capital, were told to shut off air conditioning.
The shutdowns add to challenges for the ruling Communist Party as Xi, the country’s most powerful leader in decades, prepares to try to break with tradition and award himself a third five-year term as leader at a meeting in October or November.
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Lot’s of industrial manufacturing affected.
Didn’t China have massive flooding not too long ago ?
Another DemonRat CRASH & BURN!
Oh man.. Biden and Pelosi will be pushing their “Build Back Beijing Better” bill for 1 Trillion dollars. Mitch will back it and Kevin will hide in his office.
Urea?? More fertilizer problems. Odd.
Globalism has crashed and burned over the last few years.
The California-China Climate Institute is a UC-wide initiative housed jointly at UC Berkeley’s School of Law — through its Center for Law, Energy & the Environment — and Rausser College of Natural Resources and will partner with the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University — one of China’s preeminent research institutions. The Institute will also work closely with other University of California campuses, departments and leaders.
Action: Launched in September 2019, this groundbreaking initiative was established to spur further climate action through joint research, training and dialogue in California and China. This Institute will inform national policy makers, foster dialogue and cooperation, and promote the implementation of climate solutions at all levels.
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the current droughts being experienced in Europe, China and parts of North America are of course being blamed on “climate change”. Yet this is not the first time in recorded history that such droughts have occurred. “Hunger stones” are appearing in European rivers and yearly water lines are etched along banks. One would expect that if the earth were warming, there would be far more evaporation of water from the oceans ( increased salinity, not happening) and great storms as water fell as severe storms.
Goes back to the theory that arctic ice thickness correlates more with the activity of energy released by the earth’s core as underwater volcanoes and “smokers”. If less energy is being releases, ice thickens, less evaporation, less rain.
Look out, a cold icy winter is coming.
Looks like they need Brawndo.
Are they diverting upstream water out to sea to create the drought like they do in California?
It has what plants crave!
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