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China's Largest Solar Farm Is Quietly Changing The Desert Around It (www.bgr.com)

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A solar farm in China is greening the land around it by reducing ground water evaporation, cutting down on wind, and adding water to the ground.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Predicting Earth's future climate is a race against time. As climate change accelerates, improving models is essential to guide decision-making from governments, especially if we hope to control climate change.

…Do they really believe this?

Read the room. Doesn’t matter if they invent a freaking oracle, governments aren’t going to do squat as long as constituents are manipulated into not seeing it.

We are past the point of praying and hoping science will win an attention war. I feel like all this research is just pointless with the elephants in the room are dealt with.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If someone wakes up and changes the governments, whatever the new ruling system is will be a government and will need models to choose the best way forward. So I think their statement is literally true (and inevitable conditioning on humanity surviving for a few more millennia). Note that the populace is more aware than ever, and getting more informed over time on climate change.

It's unlikely that the climate modeling apparatus has siphoned off the people required to convince or force governments to act reasonably. Lift where you can reach: I think the research is not pointless.