Posted on 08/21/2022 5:48:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHONGQING, China (AP) — China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.
The hottest, driest summer since the government began recording rainfall and temperature 61 years ago has wilted crops and left reservoirs at half their normal water level. Factories in Sichuan province were shut down last week to save power for homes as air conditioning demand surged, with temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
The coming 10 days are a “key period of damage resistance” for southern China’s rice crop, said Agriculture Minister Tang Renjian.
Authorities will “try to increase rain” by seeding clouds with chemicals and spraying crops with a “water retaining agent” to limit evaporation, Tang’s ministry said on its website. It gave no details of where that would be done.
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heard its not working...clouds too thin
Maybe they should call the lab in wuhan.....bet they have some ideas on this.
Reducing the Arctic Snow Pack even further?
Where is the rage from our dedicated Greenies and Greta Thunberg?
Oh, right. I forgot. If you are caught being a Greenie in China , its the death penalty.
Soon China will rule the USA, so the Greenies will all die. There is that.
They probably messed up their hydrological cycle with theur dams.
Europe used to do this decades ago
suck the moisture out....no rain for the west coast or Canada.
Because evaporation from thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean isn’t more imporant?
China is an Environment Dracula. If we were downstream on a river with China, we wouldn’t get a damed drop.
China is a raging destroyer. They strip the earth and leave it a wasteland as they have in Africa, South America and in Tibet too. And then expect the rest of the world, like Canada to feed her. What will they do when there is no more Canadian Grain because of lack of rain in the Western Part of Canada? They will starve by the millions.
China is not self suffiecient even yet in its food supply.And they will war to take from other nations.
I have flight logs of my father’s that show he was doing this in California back in the 50’s. His father was a farmer and he learned to fly crop dusting before becoming a fighter pilot in WWII, then went on to be a flight instructor and then was in the reserves for while (that’s when he was cloud seeding) and was pulled back in for the Korean War and was a pilot in HU-1, the very first helicopter unit (aboard the USS Princeton). He performed reconnaissance and rescue missions.
Cloud Drought
Their deforestation is one major cause of lowered rain fall, plus all the noxious chemical fumes from their unregulated industries probably does not help.
Wait ,wasn’t China drowning in rain a few months ago ? LOL
Awfully nice of them. Cali would shut down power to the homes
suck the moisture out....no rain for the west coast or Canada.‘’
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Cloud seeding experimentation has been going on since at least the 50’s with plenty of documented studies.
Many have speculated about what i quoted from you and this seeding would not be limited to just China.
This issue is something that could disrupt weather patterns if done on a large scale in multiple geographies. Getting the layman to even take this serious is akin to a debate on the Covid jabs
Do they still use Silver Iodine for this?
It seems very expensive to me?!
Well, Hunter will help them?!
1972, black hills of Sd.
They seed a cloud bank moving rapidly east.
The east bound clouds return to the hills because of a vacumn.
Half of Rapid city washes away
I remember when they tried cloud seeding back in the 70s during a drought in the NW, and it had no effect at all.
Has it ever worked?
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