Hottest Temperatures in 140 Years Hurting Production in (Shanghai) China

[Hissyspit]

Source: Bloomberg

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Shanghai Heat Wave Affects Production at Baosteel to Ford

By Bloomberg News
August 02, 2013 2:11 AM EDT

A record heat wave in Shanghai is hurting traffic at some auto dealerships, cutting client visits at brokerages and forcing utilities to delay increases in water prices as the government takes steps to help residents endure the hottest temperatures in 140 years.

At least 11 people have died from heatstroke since the mercury started to soar last month, the Shanghai Daily reported yesterday, citing local authorities. On July 26, the thermometer reading jumped to 40.6 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest since record-keeping began in 1873, the city’s weather bureau said.

“The hot weather has affected the number of customers visiting our dealership,” said Chen Yan’er, general manager of a Ford dealership. “It’s worse during the weekdays, with a noticeable 15-20 percent drop in people coming in.”

A slump in consumption would come at a bad time for Shanghai, which has become increasingly reliant on services for growth. The city’s economy expanded 7.7 percent in the first half of the year as growth in its service industries enabled China’s commercial hub to outpace the national average.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-02/shanghai-s-heat-wave-affects-baosteel-to-ford-as-locals-wither.html

[madrchsod]

1. i like what the spokesman for the steel company said

one thing about steel workers anywhere in the world we all face the same conditions it`s either too damn hot or too damn cold. a good day is when we don`t sweat as bad as the day before so our long underwear doesn`t smell so bad.

i`m glad i retired but i sure miss the excitement

[Sunlei]

2. "The city’s economy expanded 7.7 percent in the first half of the year"!!!

so that's where our lost usa economy went!

[NickB79]

6. It also explains WHY we're seeing record-breaking temps lately

Globally, we've sacrificed the environment in the name of economic growth.

Slow global warming or burn cheap coal and gas to manufacture, sell, and buy more plastic shit? Easy choice for 99% of the world's population.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[bananas]

4. Why isn't the Weather Modification Office doing something about this?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49672

In China, some 560,000 manipulations of the weather have been conducted since 2002

China Leads the World in Weather Modification

By Jack Dini (Bio and Archives) Thursday, September 20, 2012

Not content to push the edge in cloning, architecture and geological engineering, China’s also leaving the rest of the world behind when it comes to controlling the weather. Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities. In Shanghai, officials are considering the measure to cool the daytime temperature, easing demand for electricity, reports Brandon Keim. (1)

The Beijing Weather Modification Office is just one part of the National Weather Modification Office that manipulates the weather across the whole of the country. China’s weather engineering program is the largest in the world—1,500 weather modification experts, in charge of thirty aircraft and their crews, as well as 40,000 part-time workers—farmers in the main—who are there to man the 7,000 anti-aircraft guns and 5,000 rocket launchers to shell the clouds. (2)

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For the 2008 Olympics, China had 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain. Each system would shoot various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reached the stadium. In February 2009, China also blasted iodide sticks over Beijing to artificially induce snowfall after four months of drought, and ddid the same over other areas of northern China to increase snowfall. The snowfall in Beijing lasted for approximately three days and led to the closure of 12 main roads around the city. At the end of October 2009, Beijing claimed it had its earliest snowfall since 1987 due to cloud seeding. (4)

Worldwide there are currently more than 150 weather modification programs taking place in 37 countries, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Colorado. Most of these are state-backed initiatives, often involving private American companies in consulting roles. Some are single season programs that cost tens of thousands of dollars, other multi-year projects that run into the millions. In India, Thailand, Mexico, The UAE, the Philippines and especially in China, people aren’t just talking about the weather, they’re actually trying to do something about it, notes, George Pendle. (5)

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[Lugal Zaggesi]

5. Kind of sounds like Performance Enhancing Drugs for the weather

Works fine in the short run,
then your heart explodes or you get a brain tumor or Shanghai melts.

It's always something.