Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I have a farm pond. In late February, it was so full, water was washing fish over the dam. Now, it's so low, you can see the tops of fish tails even in the deepest part. It's down at least three feet. If cows had access to it, it would be completely dry.

 

It’s popular stuff to read, weather. And watch. Always has been. And at this point a lot of people are bought in. Weather is more extreme than ever, influenced (which most people read as caused) by climate change, the world is ending more swiftly than we’d like.

 

How many are watering yards this summer? I can't justify it this year, just seems wrong.

 

Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry

https://apnews.com/article/china-droughts-economy-chongqing-13e7b32da8113aea92e4f69b4aaf62cd

 

I for one have bought in.

 

Yeah, major rivers all over the world drying up are very popular reading. I would have thought that the parts regarding the effects on manufacturing, business, and China's economy would have caught your eye.


"Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

Factories in Sichuan province and the adjacent metropolis of Chongqing in the southwest were ordered to shut down after reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels and demand for air conditioning surged in scorching temperatures.

River ferries in Chongqing that usually are packed with sightseers were empty and tied to piers beside mudflats that stretched as much as 50 meters (50 yards) from the normal shoreline to the depleted river’s edge. Smaller ships sailed down the middle of the Yangtze, one of China’s biggest trade channels, but no large cargo ships could be seen.

Normally bustling streets were empty after temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in Chongqing on Thursday. State media said that was the hottest in China outside the desert region of Xinjiang in the northwest since official records began in 1961.

“We cannot live through this summer without air conditioning,” said Chen Haofeng, 22, who was taking pictures of the exposed riverbed. “Nothing can cool us down.”

The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting in October or November when President Xi Jinping is expected to try to award himself a third five-year term as leader.

The world’s second-largest economy grew by just 2.5% over a year earlier in the first half of 2022, less than half the official target of 5.5%. The drought’s impact in Sichuan is unusually severe because the province gets 80% of its power from hydroelectric dams. Thousands of factories that make processor chips, solar panels and auto components in Sichuan and Chongqing shut down this week for at least six days.

Some announced there was no disruption in supplies to customers, but the Shanghai city government said in a letter released Thursday that Tesla Ltd. and a major Chinese automaker were forced to suspend production."

 

Are you saying it’s not?

Crime is popular to read too. Crime is bad - and also popular. Trump is bad - and also popular to read about.

 

I installed drip irrigation on my vegetable garden. I run it about 20-30 minutes each night. Otherwise, nope - because I’m bought in and enjoy reading this stuff.

 

I don’t water my yard because I don’t want a $400 water bill like the last time.

 

It may get gawdalmighty hot and humid in Alabama, but at least we get plenty of rain. Actually, this August has been unseasonably cool, highs in the 80's much of the month. Usually the heat in Aug-Sept will make your eyebrows crawl, but this has been tolerable.

Probably just jinxed us all to hell.