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China Goes ‘Rogue’ With ‘Artificial Weather’ Scheme
By Deirdre Fulton Within five years, China intends to use a dubious geoengineering technology known as ‘cloud seeding’ to induce more than 60 billion cubic meters of additional rain each year, its government said this week. Backers of the program—which involves rocket-launching chemicals such as silver iodide into the clouds to allegedly boost rainfall—say the strategy … Continue reading
Disaster Risk Reduction And Resilience As Structural Reform In Abenomics
By Andrew DeWit In the waning days of 2014, by far the hottest year humans have ever measured,1 Bloomberg News warned that the foreign investors who control roughly 70% of volume traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange “have had just about enough of Abenomics.” Decrying that there is no Japanese Facebook or Google, and that … Continue reading
China’s Looming Water Shortage
By Shannon Tiezzi The Diplomat has previously covered China’s water pollution crisis, with the Chinese government reporting that nearly 60 percent of China’s groundwater is polluted. But water scarcity, while obviously exacerbated by pollution, is also a severe problem for China, one that is tied up with complex questions about energy use, urbanization, and modernization. … Continue reading
