The dam on the Chu river in Anhui province – a tributary of the Yangtze river – was destroyed with explosives on Sunday morning, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after which the water level was expected to drop by 70cm (2ft).

The water released is being channelled into two storage ponds on a flood plain that can hold more than 60m cubic metres (2.1bn cubic ft) of water.

Water levels on many rivers have been unusually high this year because of torrential rains. Blasting dams and embankments to discharge water was an extreme response employed during China’s worst floods in recent years in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3m homes were destroyed.

“Unusually high?” At least 33 Chinese rivers are now running at record levels. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/china-blows-up-dam-on-yangtze-river-tributary-to-ease-flooding

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July 21, 2020 at 01:54PM

What happens when the left overreach so far they lap the whole argument and hit themselves from behind.

When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

by Ryan Long.

Racist:

“We kicked someone out for marrying a black woman, but if you can prove hes still a racist we’ll let him back in”

When there is no rational debate left, there is always satire. Brilliant.

h/t David E

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July 21, 2020 at 01:29PM

Yet another climate conference?

Carbophobes tell conference goers to tie themselves in knots over a minor trace gas in the atmosphere that’s essential to plants, trees, vegetation etc. It’s climate alarm time again.
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Prior to the global pandemic, climate researchers identified an uncomfortable truth: the very meetings and events meant to support the fight against climate change were themselves causing vast greenhouse gas emissions through international air travel, says Phys.org.

Building on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Otago’s Professor James Higham, of the Department of Tourism, and his Oxford University colleagues Ph.D. student Milan Klöwer, Professor Myles Allen and Associate Professor Debbie Hopkins have identified new measures that may reduce the carbon footprint of conference travel by up to 90%.

The study is published this week in the journal Nature.

“We’ve arrived at a new model that will be required to bring the carbon footprint of international conferences down. The model can apply to small regional conferences as well,” Professor Higham says.

Lead author Milan Klöwer says the model identifies three key areas for action; carefully selecting venues to minimize transport emissions, hosting conferences every second year to instantly cut travel by 50%, and creating hubs so people travel shorter distances to still benefit from networking while linking virtually to other hubs.

Researchers found the sum total of travel associated with attendance at one large academic conference can release as much CO2 as an entire city in a week.

For the American Geophysical Union’s conference held in San Francisco last December, it is estimated the 28,000 delegates traveled 285 million kilometers—almost twice the distance between Earth and the Sun.

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July 21, 2020 at 01:21PM

“An executive order by President Trump, through use of his full emergency authority, could give Americans the same rights to HCQ for COVID which some of the poorest people in the world enjoy.”
– John and Andy Schlafly
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In an opinion piece on Townhall.com, John and Andy insist that “President Trump should order immediate public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) by making the medication available over-the-counter (OTC).”

“No demand is higher at this time than for a medication which helps prevent against COVID. Yet Americans are not being allowed to access the medication which they want and need, and instead are being told by FDA and state officials that they cannot have it.”

“In other countries, such as Costa Rica and Honduras, HCQ is being given freely to the public to successfully defeat coronavirus there. In some countries officials are even going door-to-door distributing HCQ to build up protection against the virus, with great success.”The mortality rate from COVID-19 in the United States is far higher per case, and per million of residents, despite how we have the finest hospital system in the world. We don’t currently have public access to HCQ to protect against the disease, however, and that is what is needed at this time.

Just for the record, I agree with this opinion piece.

See entire article:
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2020/07/15/hydroxychloroquine-should-be-available-over-the-counter-n2572496

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July 21, 2020 at 12:43PM