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What exactly is solar radiation management, who is managing solar radiation and what is its purpose? What is being sprayed in the atmosphere to reflect solar radiation?
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Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?
The mighty Mississippi is so low, people are walking to a unique rock formation rarely accessible by foot
Tower Rock – a massive island in the middle of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis – is typically surrounded by water and only accessible by boat. But as severe drought spreads across the Midwest and pushes river levels to near-record lows, people can now reach the rock formation on foot.
“The river has dropped low enough that you can walk over to Tower Rock and not get your feet wet or muddy,” said Missouri resident Jeff Biget. “I only remember being able to do this one other time in my life.”
Photos taken by Biget show people hiking across the rocky river bed to the island tower – a trek that poses little risk in the near-term as water levels are expected to continue to drop for at least the next two weeks.
Tower Rock can be reached on foot when the water level is below 1.5 feet at the Chester, Illinois, river gauge, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. That gauge dropped to around zero on Thursday and shows no sign of significant recovery in the forecast.
More than 55% of the contiguous United States is in drought, according to the US Drought Monitor, which is the largest area since April. And more than 133 million people live in those drought-stricken areas – the biggest population affected since 2016.
Severe drought covers more than 70% of Arkansas and nearly 40% of Missouri, up from just 5% a month ago. Several locations have seen record-low precipitation over the past few weeks, including Memphis, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Springfield, Missouri. The forecast from the Climate Prediction Center is dry, with below-average rainfall in the outlook through at least October 23.
The drought’s early autumn expansion in the central US has had a significant impact on the Mississippi River. In Memphis, the river was at its lowest level since 2012 this week and and its fifth-lowest on record. By next week, the forecast calls for it to decline further, to the third-lowest level on record.
More than 40 river gauges in the Mississippi River Basin are reporting low water levels, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Bailey White, who lives in Tennessee north of Memphis, she has never seen the Mississippi River’s water level drop this low. White says she and her family boat on the river a few times a month, but they had a difficult time putting it in on Saturday.
“I’ve seen the water levels drop a little and I’ve seen them super high – but I’ve never seen them this low before,” White said. “We couldn’t even get our small boat on the river. We had to try five different docks until we were able to do so. It’s a small boat, so it doesn’t sit deep in the water, but we definitely had to pay extra attention a few times or we would’ve hit some sand.”
Photos show how the river has contracted away from its banks. The usually mighty Mississippi looks more like a trickle in some areas, with dry sand exposed where several feet of water usually flows.
The low water levels come at a crucial time of the year for the transport of crops from the nation’s heartland. The Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging portions of the river to keep traffic flowing – albeit at a much slower pace. Hundreds of barges and vessels have been queuing up, waiting for the all-clear to pass through the treacherously-low river.
The Consolidated Grain and Barge Company, which buys, stores and sells crops for shipping, can usually move grain on barges loaded up to 80,000 bushels, according to David Gilbert, the company’s superintendent at its Greenville, Mississippi, office.
But recently the low water levels have forced the company to keep the loads far lighter, at around 55,000 bushels.
“I ain’t seen it lower than it is now,”. “We’re not loading right now.”
Gilbert said that instead of shipping their harvests right now, many farmers are “just throwing it in their bins” and waiting for better conditions, which could still be weeks away.
But even as the supply chain crisis grows, a playful mood is taking hold around Tower Rock.
“Tower Rock, walking on the river out to it only happens every so often,” Elainna Froemsdorf.
She took her grandchildren to make the hike on Monday, which was a school holiday.
“Today was no school, so it means fun grandma day,” Froemsdorf said.
She tells KFVS that her grandchildren are the third generation in her family to experience walking out to the formation. And her granddaughter, Adilyn Chowder, was happy for the new experience.
“I haven’t done anything like that before, and it was kind of challenging, but it was fun,” Crowden told KFVS.Comment
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.... simultaneous droughts are happening to the world's major river systems across the globe. The Mississippi, the Rhine, the Yanghtee, the Parna in South America. These are the worst droughts in over 100 years.
This effects commerce, energy production, crop production and the movement of bulk goods like grain and fertilizer resulting in higher prices for most goods.
Global warming and climate change are happening at an accelerating pace regardless of the claims of climate deniers.Comment
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100 years is a blip on the radar. And if lefties want to reduce greenhouse gas...if you really believe we're at the point of no return...go nuclear. Wind and solar are a pipe dream at this point.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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When you have the entire Leftist media pushing EVERY KIND of lie they can conjure up, for every POSSIBLE political reason, it tends to take the legitimacy away from our society's information reliability. Who do you believe about ANYTHING anymore? We've (clearly) seen the corporate media pursue a completely FALSE agenda against our great President Trump, and even after he's been out of office for 2 years, they're still pursuing him for everything he hasn't done. Its absolutely SHAMEFUL. But there's certainly a purpose and an agenda behind it.
I realize this thread is about climate change, but I have to put that notion/idea in the same category as all the other lies told to me by government/media; in the trash bin of history. I believe the planet has been doing this for millions of years and humans are only the inhabitants for a small fraction of the planet's timeframe. If the planet is heating up, its likely more of a natural phenomenon than anything man has caused. I could be wrong, however, but it seems a lot less plausible that fossil fuels/emissions could have done this much damage in a less than a century and a half, which is less than 1 second in Earth time.
The most looming question remains; how do you run humankind without ANY fossil fuels? It - literally - can't be done. Whether it matters or not, our reliance on gas/oil as the perfect fuel wouldn't have even been possible had the dinosaurs not come before us and were wiped out by another catastrophe.
If you listen to corporate media and these idiots pushing this "Green New Deal", they've got absolutely no plausible solutions/replacements for gas/oil. Solar, Wind etc are only minimally assistive technologies, and even they have side effects that will and can damage the planet in one way or another. Electric car batteries are extremely toxic to the environment as well, and aren't nearly perfected, let alone cost effective to produce. As if there's ways to charge an electric vehicle efficiently enough to (even) travel across the country? (not).
Humankind will simply run out the clock on the planet and whether by default or design, the planet will go on long after we've ceased to inhabit (and pollute) it.
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No matter what we as humans do, eventually another 5+ mile diameter meteor or comet is going to collide with the earth with the resulting death of over 95% of all life and the struggle will start over.Comment
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well is a good question , but I think is another stupidity from a groups of sonoofffebeaches around the world to develop/implement fear/control tack tics over people called sheepies . Similar rhing created by covi 19 bull so now you have a population "" vaccinated "" with poison.Comment
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You're exactly right WIWA. Just as Covid was used as a fear/control tactic, so is the theory about climate change.
The people in high places know that Americans won't simply "follow along" unless there is a component of fear and dread associated with it.
And the amount of people that I STILL see wearing masks, EVEN IN THEIR CARS, gives me pause like nothing else.
Even their fearless leader, Joe Droopy Pants Biden, has declared "the pandemic is over", so what is their ultimate goal/fear really all about?
It's COMPLIANCE...
When you consider this country broke away from a monarchy/autocracy and was done by people who wanted to be free and were excited and enthusiastic about this new endeavor, it makes you
wonder how in just over 200 years, the basic principles of our free society are now being questioned by people who prefer to be SHEEP rather than the smart and strong Americans they were meant to be.
Mind boggling.
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Here is an interesting website.
Weather Modification * Weather Modification HistoryComment
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.... the last couple of posters are welcome to stick their heads in the sand or you can just Google any current picture of the Mississippi river to confirm what is really happening.
Half of the USA and most of the world is in a historic drought. If you want to deny that man made climate change has nothing to do with it I guess you also believe the world is flat.Comment
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I do not see anything in my post that is denying natural climate change. I did however post fact based weather modifications that are made by man. Are you denying that weather modification exists? If you are denying these facts you must have your head buried in the sand.Comment
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