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China produces 55 billion tons of fake rain every year, think they are causing our droughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1769407" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>Ya know what bothers me?</p><p></p><p>I go to ponds that in springtime once had a hundred thousand tadpoles. Little wiggly bastards that were so damn thick I could scoop a quart ball jar of water up and there would a hundred baby frogs in it.</p><p></p><p>Now it's hard to find a tadpole in those ponds.</p><p></p><p>And on a summer evening I would collect insects from my screen door under the porch light, and there were fifty different kinds big enough to stick a pin in. Now the big ones are gone, the variety is less than half, and the numbers are much lower.</p><p></p><p>I used to walk through fields and the grasshoppers made clouds of flying insects in front of me. My pastures were thick with them. A few weeks ago I wanted to feed a weak praying mantis I'd found and it took me a couple of walks through my pasture before I found a grasshopper.</p><p></p><p>I'm out in the woods as much as anyone I know, and I don't hear woodpeckers every day anymore. The meadowlarks were here three years ago. I could walk and see/hear a different one every half mile or so. I've only seen two in the last three years.</p><p></p><p>There are regional differences, I'm sure. But I travel around. Some animals seem unaffected, but others are just gone.</p><p></p><p>I don't give a good G*d damn about the politics involved or what talking heads are selling. I can SEE changes that my parents would never have believed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1769407, member: 42463"] Ya know what bothers me? I go to ponds that in springtime once had a hundred thousand tadpoles. Little wiggly bastards that were so damn thick I could scoop a quart ball jar of water up and there would a hundred baby frogs in it. Now it's hard to find a tadpole in those ponds. And on a summer evening I would collect insects from my screen door under the porch light, and there were fifty different kinds big enough to stick a pin in. Now the big ones are gone, the variety is less than half, and the numbers are much lower. I used to walk through fields and the grasshoppers made clouds of flying insects in front of me. My pastures were thick with them. A few weeks ago I wanted to feed a weak praying mantis I'd found and it took me a couple of walks through my pasture before I found a grasshopper. I'm out in the woods as much as anyone I know, and I don't hear woodpeckers every day anymore. The meadowlarks were here three years ago. I could walk and see/hear a different one every half mile or so. I've only seen two in the last three years. There are regional differences, I'm sure. But I travel around. Some animals seem unaffected, but others are just gone. I don't give a good G*d damn about the politics involved or what talking heads are selling. I can SEE changes that my parents would never have believed. [/QUOTE]
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