* most beneficial and least intrusive

The cleanest, most consistent, most reliable, most “renewable” means of producing energy is the utilization of gravity. Wind and solar are hit and miss. But gravity is constant. If clean and green is what they want, then it doesn’t get any cleaner and greener than hydro. But they’ll ignore this option like running from the plague, because it doesn’t fit their narrative and true agenda.

As most Christians know, prior to the flood, when God changed creation for a second time, the Earth had a “firmament” of water in the air, which diffused the sunlight. This is why no rainbow’s had ever been seen prior. And the seasons also changed and/or became more pronounced (Gen 8:22), since the firmament would’ve acted to even out temperatures year round. Yet God said that the new state of creation was stable. The rainbow being a sign that He will keep His word. And it has been stable for millennia ever since.

It wasn’t just a big flood. The entirety of creation was changed. Food source apparently changed (Gen 9:1-5). People began to have shorter life spans. That science has been known and understood ever since.

But yeah, divert some water into arid regions where it will more readily evaporate, create lakes, hydro projects, living space, grow more greenery. Fine with me. I don’t see any downsides. In Genesis 9:1, God said again to be fruitful and multiply, and that time also said “fill the earth”.

If they want to generate more cloud cover, that’s as good a way as any.

Of course, I fully expect their “study” will conclude something entirely different and less sensible.

Of course a lesser expensive approach would be to just create lakes. They will reflect more sunlight, and also by increasing water surface area, expose more water to evaporation.

And of course if you’re going to go with that most sensible and inexpensive approach, while you’re at it you might as well just make the lakes hydro-electric projects, and address several problems at once.

Then again, we all know the most sensible, least totalitarian, least beneficial, most intrusive approaches will be the first proposals to be tossed in the trash can.