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by go_elmo 1784 days ago
True, the capabilities & behavior of humanity will only really show when it gets "hard". If civilization & economy can hold up long enough to make massive efforts to recapture it could work. Im more realistic & think big powers will start to geoingineer to fight the symptoms while everything gets worse, but lets see & work for the best...
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samstave 1784 days ago
Totally agree with this sentiment... the Geo-engineering is in full swing... I do find the DEWs intriguing, as the footage of them sparking off fires in CA are pretty compelling, but not entirely believable....

I find the massive floodings in Germany, Belgium and also China to be very interesting...

It was already stated many times regarding the chinese using weather modification to create effectively what we referred to as "acid rain" in the 1980s - in an effort to sequester particulate pollution in some cities -- there are several possibilities:

1. Freak 10,000-year flooding

2. Weather warfare via HAARP or such

3. Weather modification fuckup gone awry (or intentional)

4. We broke the weather system some time ago and weather modification and technologies such as HAARP are being used in a failed attempt to fix the weather system. (I love this science fiction take on it, personally)

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go_elmo 1784 days ago
Im sorry to tell you but most of your ideas do not have any solid foundation / are quite from the conspiracy corner. concerning the heavy rain: with every degree more the air can hold much more water as vapour and the point of starting to rain shifts, meaning it takes longer to "start" to rain & then much more comes out. Which perfectly fits what we see: more droughts & heavy rain sadly...

I meant more smth like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSu5sXmsur4

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samstave 1784 days ago
I find exploring conspiracy ideas to be fun.

I'll trust the science - but I also love science fiction.

When it comes to extreme flooding, I find the foundations of my understanding to be extremely fluid.

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go_elmo 1783 days ago
Thats fine, I just have trouble with ideas like german flood being the result of geoengineering not clearly marked as science fiction.
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