Ironically big oil and more specifically people with knowledge in drilling might actually be our best hope going forward. This thread has a lot of this suck articles, which they do, and ultimately will get worse. I'm going to post more hopefully ones, specifically things that are more action focused. Deep Geothermal Can potentially be done anywhere with no real negatives. ^That wsj opinion article is a short but sweet overview This Vox article is more of a deep dive, longer but good. This plus, Nuclear, wind, and solar is hopefully the future + Carbon capture technology.
'Drought' doesn't cover it anymore for the West. This is aridification and it's not going away Workers with the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) fill buckets with drought information and water saving tools during a "Drought Drive Up" event at the MMWD headquarters on June 12, 2021 in Corte Madera, California. The past few weeks of record-bashing temperatures in the Pacific Northwest is just insult to injury in a parched Western United States. This is what the region looks like as of the last days of June. This is what it looked like in June 2018. Comparing those maps demonstrates one fundamental thing—a huge swath of the West is becoming desert, joining our neighbors to the south. It’s hard to overstate how dire the future looks. Spoiler Consider this: a new Greater Yellowstone Climate Assessment records temperatures in the Greater Yellowstone Area that have risen 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 C) since 1950. More critically the region has lost a quarter of its annual snowfall. By the end of the century, the assessment projects, the snow level in the basin is going to be 10,000 feet. That means no more skiing at Jackson Hole in the Tetons. Moisture that does fall will be rain, which is fleeting. The entire region depends on annual snow pack—the stored water high in the mountains that melts slowly through spring and summer to keep rivers flowing, fish alive, grazing for wildlife and livestock, crops growing, and golf courses green. The implications go far beyond the Greater Yellowstone region, however, because it’s the point where three major river basins of the western U.S. converge. The rivers of the Snake-Columbia basin, Green-Colorado basin, and Missouri River Basin all begin as snow the Montana and Wyoming Rockies. These are the rivers that are keeping the inland West arable. The six states of the Colorado River Compact—Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming (comprising the Upper Basin) and Arizona, California and Nevada (the Lower Basin)—are all in danger of losing that resource entirely. That’s the medium-range outlook. The right now is pretty damned grim, too. The reality is climate change and global warming is not going to stop. The glaciers are not going to reform. Fire season will be a thing of the past for much of the West—there will always be wildfires, all year round. It means our policymakers have to get serious and fast about doing everything they can to at least slow it down. But it also means that we have to fundamentally change how we think about water and how we think about drought. “We have to fundamentally change the mindset of the public, and the way we manage this resource,” Newsha Ajami, a hydrologist and the director of urban water policy at Stanford University’s Water in the West program, told High Country News two years ago when the situation was that much less dire. “And one of the ways you do it is, you have to change the terminologies that we use in dealing with water.” The Colorado River Research Group has decided to use the term “aridification,” which they translate as “a transformation to a drier environment.” The idea of “drought” is temporary. The idea of aridification is the permanent new reality the West faces. Accepting that is critical not just for those of us who live in the West when we think about ripping out our lawns and planting xeriscape gardens. Or turning off the faucet while we brush or teeth or for the duration of our 20-second hand-washings. Or keeping a bucket in our showers to collect gray water. Or finally eschewing the epitome of our throwaway, consumerist society: the single-use plastic water bottles as a fixture of daily life. Accepting that the entire West—including the newly baked Pacific Northwest coast—is arid, and is going to remain so for the foreseeable future, means accepting that we have to take action. It means we have to start holding our lawmakers and policymakers as accountable as ourselves.
Great, now California’s drought penis is penetrating Oregon and Washington as well. Have they no shame?
Tennessee won the first American water war https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aj...border/ADiDZhQFqSFts6oIarQA8H/?outputType=amp
considering he was a teacher who would relish in calling his students the N word, teaching them climate change is a hoax is the least of their worries
i for one am glad he isnt around anymore only reason i would hope he comes back is if we get some left version of farva who will piece together that racist's personal info and ruin his life tbh
From Germany: Imagine how big of a fucking loser you have to be to purchase a bumper sticker talking shit to a 15-year-old simply because she doesn't want to see this shit right here happen to you.
If you ride a metro/subway every day, I suggest avoiding some of the videos coming out of Zhengzhou...
I am currently in NYC and I am certain everyone here will die if there are prolonged massive heat waves (not even just a few days here and there).
The blue origin vessel uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and only emits water vapor pst reaction.
My AC went out and the guy can’t get the parts because it’s happening everywhere. 87 in my house right now.
Those poor oil companies being demonized. Everytime I click on the first page of this thread by accident I'm continually surprised by the extent of the stupidity even though I've read it before.
Hey. This may be the thing that gets old white conservatives on board with saving the planet. Pollution is Shrinking Human Penises, Warns Scientist 07.26.17 By now, we all know that humans have done a fair bit to fuck up our planet. Pollution—that big bad wolf that is the result of many of our activities—has messed up not just our lives but that of other creatures we share this planet with too. It’s damaged polar bears’ dicks and given “limp” penises to otters. Now though, completing the circle of life itself, it’s coming for human erections too. A much-discussed new book by Dr Shanna H. Swan—a renowned environmental and reproductive epidemiologist—ties the use of industrial chemicals in everyday products to smaller penises, lower sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. The wordy title and subtitle of the book itself sounds like a warning bell we can’t afford to ignore: Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race. In 2017, Swan co-authored a study that found sperm counts had plummeted in the West by 59 percent between 1973 and 2011. In her new book, Swan explores how a low sperm count, low fertility rates, and penis shrinkage is tied to a common culprit: chemicals. “Chemicals in our environment and unhealthy lifestyle practices in our modern world are disrupting our hormonal balance, causing various degrees of reproductive havoc,” she writes in her new book. Swan also shared her findings on fertility rates. “In some parts of the world, the average twentysomething woman today is less fertile than her grandmother was at 35.” She also added that a man might have half the sperm count of his grandfather. Swan’s latest research also states that pollutants and chemicals are decreasing semen quality and leading to the shrinking penis size and volume of testes. Swan calls this a “global existential crisis” and warns that this could threaten human survival itself. “The current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival,” she writes. “Of five possible criteria for what makes a species endangered, only one needs to be met; the current state of affairs for humans meets at least three.” Swan’s research also found that exposure to phthalates, chemicals found commonly in plastics and toys, at the end of the first trimester in the womb, led to a shorter anogenital distance (AGD) “Nobody is going to like that term, so you could use taint or gooch instead,” she told The Intercept, though not like we’re gonna be using her suggested alternative words anytime soon either. “But basically it’s the distance between the anus and the beginning of the genitals. And scientists have recognized its importance for a long time. I have a paper from 1912 that looks at AGD and showed that they were nearly 100 percent longer in males than in females. Our work has shown that chemicals, including the diethylhexyl phthalate, shorten the AGD in males.” In her column for The Guardian, environmental activist Erin Brockovich discusses the book too and points out the exposure to “forever chemicals” and how they are found commonly in electronics, plastics, food wrapping, and cleaning products. “Some of them, called PFAS, are known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment or the human body. They just accumulate and accumulate – doing more and more damage, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Now, it seems, humanity is reaching a breaking point.” If you thought this was bad news, we have some more. Chemicals and pollutants can also impact one’s libido. “Yes, we found a relationship between women’s phthalate levels and their sexual satisfaction,” Swan told The Intercept. “And researchers in China foundthat workers with higher levels of bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, in their blood were more likely to have sexual problems, including decreased desire.” According to Swan’s research, BPA, phthalate, parabens, and atrazine are the main culprits behind decreasing libido and fertility. These chemicals are found commonly in plastics, herbicides, toothpaste, and beauty products and act as endocrine disruptors which leads to premature birth, lower IQs, obesity and, according to Swan’s research, smaller penis size. It might be hard to avoid these chemicals since they are often not on labels and are commonly found on plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, canned foods and even ATM receipts. A 2018 study by Melbourne scientists confirmed chemicals in plastics are leading to genital defects in male babies. This year, researchers from France’s national public health agency found that young boys who lived in polluted regions where coal mining used to take place were twice as likely to have one descended testicle and five times likely to have two undescended testicles. Swan warns that reduced fertility and toxic chemicals can impact future generations badly. “If you’re pregnant, and you’re carrying a boy, the chemicals you’re exposed to can pass to him through the placenta. So the germ cells that will create his children are already affected. Plus that boy is exposed to chemicals again as an adult. It’s a two-hit model,” she said. “That’s why we have this continuing decline in fertility and sperm quality. If we didn’t have a hit from our parents and our grandparents, then each generation would just start all over again. It would be bad, but the impact would be at the same level each time. The fact that we carry with us the problems of the past generations means that we’re starting at a lower level and getting hit again and again and again.” So, are we doomed to see future generations grow up with smaller and smaller schlongs, or is there anything we can do? According to Swan, buying organic produce and using less plastic in our everyday life will help eliminate chemicals from our lives. She even advises eating home-cooked meals rather than eating out since food packages and gloves used by restaurant workers transfer phthalates into your food, which then enter your body. If not for the environment then, it’s time to fight pollution for the sake of protecting your dong and the human civilisation. As Swan writes, “[We must] do what we can to safeguard our fertility, the fate of mankind, and the planet.” Follow Jaishree on Twitter and Instagram.