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Changing climate the reason floods in Pakistan are so devastating · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi. I'm Jay felon, and thank you for
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  listening to the slippery slope. So we have talked about what's
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  happening in Pakistan at the moment.
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  There is this devastating flood. I did talk about it.
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  A little last week. What's coming across the news
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  now is that it is climate change, it's definitely climate
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  change causing this flooding to have an impact Stan, and
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  apparently you cannot question it.
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  This is definitely, the reason I'll read some highlights from
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  this article here from the guardian.
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  The headline says, she's changing climate.
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  The reason floods in Pakistan are so devastating so csiro
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  climate scientist, dr. Michael Gross has said the
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  floods bear the Hallmarks of a changing climate.
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  A warmer climate means that you have more intense.
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  Rainfall and Glaciers are more likely to melt and collapse
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  quicker. So dr.
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  Gross, both of those things, come together in this.
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  Juventus in Pakistan. Pakistan has received nearly
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  three times more rain than the 30 year average in the three
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  months, to August this year. Dr. Gross said, careful analysis
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  was needed to fully determine the impact of climate change on
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  the recent flood and to understand how a warming climate
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  could impact rainfall across Seasons.
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  However, he says, no one should doubt the influence of climate
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  change on what has occurred. So that's it.
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  As far as he He's concerned, you should not doubt climate change,
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  that is the factor. That is what's pushing this
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  flooding along. Now, this article finishes off
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  by saying by quoting dr. Dr. Gross, as saying places like
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  Pakistan, a feeling disproportionate impacts of a
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  changing and warming climate and they contributed relatively
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  little to the overall carbon emissions issue he says.
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  So immediately he is blaming Thea Nations and you can see.
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  So, obviously, it's so the Nations that he, that he talks
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  about are being affected the most earlier.
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  In this, in this article, he names a Pakistan, Indonesia,
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  India, and Sri, Lanka, and South Korea, all obviously, Asian
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  Nations. And apparently, I'm good enough.
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  He's been to South Korea, but they have a very industrialized
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  system over there, industrialized Workforce and I
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  would say that they do them and India, definitely do.
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  Contribute to the overall carbon emissions issue.
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  Anyway, but he would rather focus on them being Asian.
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  So climate change is the cause of this flooding and
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  specifically at the moment towards Asian Nations.
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  Now, also in this article, it talks about how in 2010 Pakistan
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  experience devastating floods. So the UN raised two billion
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  dollars to assist the estimated 20 million people impact However
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  it also says that there were lessons that were learned after
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  the 2010 floods. But there were not implemented
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  and this is what professor yasmina said.
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  She also says that there was a clear need for disaster
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  management and capacity building support from other nations to
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  help Pakistan prepare for future disasters.
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  So for one we're told in his article that climate change or
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  the climate crisis that is what's directly causing this
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  flooding in Pakistan. All these floodings or climate
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  change is also affecting Asian Nations because we want to we
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  want to infer as if there's some kind of racial divide when it
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  comes to climate change. But it does also drop the fact
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  that you know, fighting like very similar similar to this one
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  right now. In Pakistan also occurred in
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  Pakistan in 2010 and yet they learned they implemented.
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  None of the lessons that they had learned from the flood.
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  And yet we're still told still told even though there was
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  extreme, flooding 2010 was still told it's all to do with the
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  climate crisis. I'm it's because there and I
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  Asian Nation there a coronation and you know they could have
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  learned the lessons, they didn't but don't don't blame the
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  Pakistani government, don't blame them.
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  Let's still start sending in money.
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  And look, I believe that we should be sending money, Nation
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  should be helping, but we should we need to hold people
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  accountable. We need to hold government's
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  accountable if they Had similar floodings, they learn lessons
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  and they implemented. None of the actions needed to
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  help mitigate the issues that are that they're seeing now with
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  the flooding. Well isn't that shouldn't
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  someone answer to that? Anyway, that's just that's just
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  my thoughts on that. However, I am not convinced that
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  it is climate change. I want to read a couple of other
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  articles, this one, and I did touch on this one last week.
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  The headline to this says, dealing with climate change the
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  psychology. Of geoengineering.
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  So, it says, geoengineering as a means to slow.
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  Climate change is one of the most contentious subjects in the
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  field of climate science along with being heavily debated with
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  the signs within the scientific Community itself.
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  The topic is diversity of among the general public
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  geoengineering. Describes a human attempt to
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  Halt, the effects of climate change using technology.
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  The idea was first introduced during the Cold War but only
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  became popular in 2006 when Nobel prize-winning chemist
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  named Paul, crutzen published a paper advocating for an escape
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  route from global warming by artificially manipulating the
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  atmosphere to counter CO2 emissions.
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  Over the past 15 years. Experiments have been conducted
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  to understand how this type of Technology like artificial
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  clouds, or example could be developed and eventually
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  deployed. Now notice it says eventually
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  deployed Okay, then this is but it's currently illegal to
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  facilitate. Any type of geoengineering at a
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  large industrial scale because no one fully understands what
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  effects it could have on other parts of the environment.
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  Now, I've looked it up and I can't see where Australia says
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  that it's illegal to, to implement geoengineering in
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  Australia, it does say that they tried they they've tried to, I
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  found an article where it says that Australia, sort or seeks to
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  limit ocean geoengineering. That was in 2013, but I can't
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  find anything. That says, it's actually
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  illegal. Definitely not here in
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  Australia, anyway. So this article says, it's
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  currently illegal. It also says that when
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  considering the use of geoengineering people in the
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  general public in climate scientists not alike tend to
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  follow two lines of argument. Some say that geoengineering,
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  the climate is too risky. They argue that the only way to
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  reverse Or at least slow the impact of man-made Global
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  heating is to reverse these to stop releasing greenhouse gases
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  into the atmosphere. More intervention will just
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  cause more problems they say. Others agree that climate change
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  mitigation is the main way, the climate crisis will be addressed
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  but say that relying on emissions reduction alone isn't
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  enough because the political will require to lower emissions
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  to the degree. Necessary just isn't there?
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  They think geoengineering might end up bearing or being our only
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  choice despite being risky. They say that risk posed by not
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  trying geoengineering is greater Then trying it.
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  So they're willing to take the risk because, you know, it's our
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  lives at risk really? So that you know, that's an
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  interesting way of looking at. So geoengineering this clay out.
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  So with that in mind who do you think is definitely definitely
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  doing some do geoengineering within their country I'll give
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  you one. Guess the nation starts with c
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  and ends with a and has the middle letters of hint in the
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  hiín. This headline here says video
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  shows cloud seeding rocket. Narrowly missing pedestrians on
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  busy sidewalk this came out. Just a couple of days ago, says
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  a tool utilized for weather manipulation nearly turned into
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  an instrument of disaster Monday into in China's Sichuan
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  Province. A cloud seeding rocket fell to
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  the ground on a busy. Local walkway, just inches away
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  from pedestrians footage. Captured by China.
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  Central television, CCTV, showed Shoppers walking along when the
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  rocket fitted with a parachute. Dropped dangerously, close to a
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  group of people. So confirmation of the cloud.
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  Seeding operation was made by the you Tri-County
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  meteorological Bureau which stated that there were no
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  reports residents being struck by Rockets.
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  So, cloud seeding is a technique used by China, that allows for
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  greater rainfall Hailstone, prevention, clearing the Skies
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  of clouds as well as to lower air pollution levels.
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  It's scientists have pursued the technique for decades and China.
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  Recently, used cloud seeding to clear clouds out of the sky.
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  In order to celebrate the founding of the Chinese
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  Communist party in July, 20, 21. The technique is made through
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  the addition of chemicals including particles of silver
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  iodide among clouds to Spur condensation and increase the
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  chance of precipitation in a particular area.
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  So, other nations that are using cloud seeding is Thailand.
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  Also sell the United Arab Emirates have experimented with
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  the technique by employing groans.
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  These drones release and Trickle charge into clouds leading to
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  condensation and a greater chance of repressive portation.
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  So in saying all of this, China and Pakistan share a border.
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  And last time I looked clouds, don't particularly care about me
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  and made borders. So they share a boundary.
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  Why is it that we're blaming immediately blaming climate
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  change when China is also conducting geoengineering
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  experiments and experiments that scientists don't fully know or
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  appreciate how it will affect the climate and what other
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  effects it may have. Whether it will excellent
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  actually reverse climate change and it causes rain.
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  Why Can't This what if this is the actual cause of the
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  flooding, the cause of this excess rain, China participating
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  in geoengineering experiments, over their Nation.
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  Those clouds in going over to Pakistan and flooding the whole
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  nation, killing thousands of people.
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  And yet, we're constantly led to believe that it has to be
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  climate crisis. The climate crisis is to blame
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  Can't be geoengineering. It can't be men doing crazy
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  experiments to the whether my opinion scientists have a lot to
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  answer for in geoengineering could very well be the problem
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  and not this alleged climate change.
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  That's my opinion. Please let me know what you
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  think. Thank you for listening to the
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