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in the spirit of episodes past, and maybe you can guess what one it is from the past,

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I am picking my own, what is it, Frenzy Mini this week. Yes, I'm not giving you a choice.

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As opposed, yes, okay. Yes, as opposed to my, as they usually are. As opposed to my very

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thought out and planned categories. Anyhow, let's just read this instead of me just rambling on today.

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China is seeding clouds to replenish the shrinking yon, yon, how do you say it, yonzi, yonzo? Yonza.

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Yonza River. This is a CNN article written by Sean Dang, Wang Cheng, Simon McCarthy. Why are

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there so many authors? It's from 20 to 30. It takes an illicit to write an article.

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So it's all this fuck, as you expect from me. Anyhow, Chinese planes are firing rods into the

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sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial yonza river, which is dried up in parts as swaths of

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the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst heat wave on record. Several regions of the

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yonza have launched weather modification programs, but with cloud cover too thin, operations and

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some drought ravaged parts of the river basin have remained on standby. Ministry of Water

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Resources said in a notice on Wednesday that drought throughout the yonza river basin was

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adversely affecting drinking water security of rural people and livestock and the growth of

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crops. On Wednesday, Central China's Hubei Province, I'm gonna say it again, Hubei Province became

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the latest to announce it would see clouds using silver iodide rods to induce rainfall. The silver

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iodide rods, which are typically the size of cigarettes, are shot, that makes for a really

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nice visual. They're shot. They're shot into two existing clouds to help form ice crystals.

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The crystals then help the cloud produce more rain, making its moisture content heavier and

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more likely to be released. Cloud seeding has been in practice since the 1940s. And China has the

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biggest program in the world. It used seeding ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 to ensure

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dry weather for the event. And the technique can also be used to induce snowfall or to soft and

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hail. At least 4.2 million people in Hubei have been affected by severe drought since June 2022,

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remember? Hubei's Provincial Emergency Management Department said Tuesday. More than 150,000 people

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there have difficulties accessing drinking water and nearly 40,000 hectares of crops have been

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damaged because of high temperatures and drought. The Janze is just one of the many rivers and lakes

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across the northern hemisphere that are drying up and shrinking amid relentless heat and low

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rainfall, including lake Mead in the US and the Rhine River in Germany. These extreme weather

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conditions have been supercharged by the human-induced climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels.

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Communities often rely on these bodies of water for economic activity.

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It should be noted though that it is mostly fossil fuels. Seeing as how that's where a majority of

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the CO2 comes from. Yeah, that's true. I'm just trying to see... I mean this is stopping

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to not relate to what I was... Yeah, that's about it. I wanted to see the success rate. Do you know?

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I do not know the success rate. I am just... Does this work? It does work. Sorry, actually I don't know

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for sure if this like works as well as intended just because this is a two-year-old story. So you

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think there'd be something more if it was working fully? But I am happy that you found confirmation

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that the claims that I made without citation with regards to cloud seating in the Harp episode

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are in fact true. So thank you for that. You're welcome. I thought that I throw it in here because

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you were just talking about it. I would also like to add, because we're talking about the climate

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crisis, one thing that should be noted is it's not just temperature changes that will be the

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impact of climate change. It's going to be that the ambient air is going to be warmer, which means

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that it can actually hold more water, more moisture, which means it might not rain as much everywhere,

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but when it does rain, there's more moisture in everything so it can come down hard, which is why

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the term atmospheric river has kind of come into the low-foil terms at this point. That's a great

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answer to a question that I was only thinking about because I was sure that I've never heard

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atmospheric river before. Yeah, what is it? Heat domes and atmospheric rivers, the new weather

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terms that we need to know for the present. Yeah, and that goes hand in hand with something great

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I heard that we're on pace to hit 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial average temperature by 2033.

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Well, that's terrifying. Yeah, and that was kind of that window that we're never supposed to go

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above. It keeps getting much closer and closer, and that's not even taking into account the ambient

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temperature of the ocean right now, which is a whole other terrifying thing I could talk about,

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but let's not. Well, this is making for a nice Wednesday morning. Yes.

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Trying to think of something nice to leave this on for you to get into the storm. Just the image of

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Chinese people. I sort of... Chinese people sounds wrong, but it is Chinese people firing cigarettes

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into the sky. Yeah, think about that. Their own modern day rain dance, if you will.

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And if that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will.

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It definitely put one on mine. Thank you. Thank you, and I guess we will just keep that vision

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in mind for 48 hours, and then we'll see you on Friday, okay? Okay, bye. Bye.