in the spirit of episodes past, and maybe you can guess what one it is from the past,
I am picking my own, what is it, Frenzy Mini this week. Yes, I'm not giving you a choice.
As opposed, yes, okay. Yes, as opposed to my, as they usually are. As opposed to my very
thought out and planned categories. Anyhow, let's just read this instead of me just rambling on today.
China is seeding clouds to replenish the shrinking yon, yon, how do you say it, yonzi, yonzo? Yonza.
Yonza River. This is a CNN article written by Sean Dang, Wang Cheng, Simon McCarthy. Why are
there so many authors? It's from 20 to 30. It takes an illicit to write an article.
So it's all this fuck, as you expect from me. Anyhow, Chinese planes are firing rods into the
sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial yonza river, which is dried up in parts as swaths of
the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record. Several regions of the
yonza have launched weather modification programs, but with cloud cover too thin, operations and
some drought ravaged parts of the river basin have remained on standby. Ministry of Water
Resources said in a notice on Wednesday that drought throughout the yonza river basin was
adversely affecting drinking water security of rural people and livestock and the growth of
crops. On Wednesday, Central China's Hubei Province, I'm gonna say it again, Hubei Province became
the latest to announce it would see clouds using silver iodide rods to induce rainfall. The silver
iodide rods, which are typically the size of cigarettes, are shot, that makes for a really
nice visual. They're shot. They're shot into two existing clouds to help form ice crystals.
The crystals then help the cloud produce more rain, making its moisture content heavier and
more likely to be released. Cloud seeding has been in practice since the 1940s. And China has the
biggest program in the world. It used seeding ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 to ensure
dry weather for the event. And the technique can also be used to induce snowfall or to soft and
hail. At least 4.2 million people in Hubei have been affected by severe drought since June 2022,
remember? Hubei's Provincial Emergency Management Department said Tuesday. More than 150,000 people
there have difficulties accessing drinking water and nearly 40,000 hectares of crops have been
damaged because of high temperatures and drought. The Janze is just one of the many rivers and lakes
across the northern hemisphere that are drying up and shrinking amid relentless heat and low
rainfall, including lake Mead in the US and the Rhine River in Germany. These extreme weather
conditions have been supercharged by the human-induced climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels.
Communities often rely on these bodies of water for economic activity.
It should be noted though that it is mostly fossil fuels. Seeing as how that's where a majority of
the CO2 comes from. Yeah, that's true. I'm just trying to see... I mean this is stopping
to not relate to what I was... Yeah, that's about it. I wanted to see the success rate. Do you know?
I do not know the success rate. I am just... Does this work? It does work. Sorry, actually I don't know
for sure if this like works as well as intended just because this is a two-year-old story. So you
think there'd be something more if it was working fully? But I am happy that you found confirmation
that the claims that I made without citation with regards to cloud seating in the Harp episode
are in fact true. So thank you for that. You're welcome. I thought that I throw it in here because
you were just talking about it. I would also like to add, because we're talking about the climate
crisis, one thing that should be noted is it's not just temperature changes that will be the
impact of climate change. It's going to be that the ambient air is going to be warmer, which means
that it can actually hold more water, more moisture, which means it might not rain as much everywhere,
but when it does rain, there's more moisture in everything so it can come down hard, which is why
the term atmospheric river has kind of come into the low-foil terms at this point. That's a great
answer to a question that I was only thinking about because I was sure that I've never heard
atmospheric river before. Yeah, what is it? Heat domes and atmospheric rivers, the new weather
terms that we need to know for the present. Yeah, and that goes hand in hand with something great
I heard that we're on pace to hit 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial average temperature by 2033.
Well, that's terrifying. Yeah, and that was kind of that window that we're never supposed to go
above. It keeps getting much closer and closer, and that's not even taking into account the ambient
temperature of the ocean right now, which is a whole other terrifying thing I could talk about,
but let's not. Well, this is making for a nice Wednesday morning. Yes.
Trying to think of something nice to leave this on for you to get into the storm. Just the image of
Chinese people. I sort of... Chinese people sounds wrong, but it is Chinese people firing cigarettes
into the sky. Yeah, think about that. Their own modern day rain dance, if you will.
And if that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will.
It definitely put one on mine. Thank you. Thank you, and I guess we will just keep that vision
in mind for 48 hours, and then we'll see you on Friday, okay? Okay, bye. Bye.