It’s happening in India and Pakistan, no reason to be alert until it starts happening in a none black and brown country.
Best part is going to be when developed national blame the immigrants for ruining their own countries climates.
The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? (ft.com) made a thread on this last week but didn't catch any traction, pretty fun
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/27/denver-weather-snowless-april-rain-drought/ Denver weather: City has first snowless April in 30 years, driest in 59 years The Denver area has been excruciatingly dry this April, worsening drought conditions. 0.01 inches of rain accumulated in Denver so far this April. A big deficit compared to the 1.68 inches that it should normally get. Good chance CO is an inferno hellscape this year.
Which means they finally read the report if they take it offline, CAISO would be fucked. Fucking sierra club.
https://www.12news.com/video/news/r...berry/75-808ec71b-592b-4068-b462-bbe83dd9bb52 Arizona has failing infrastructure and the town of Line/Strawberry is drying out. Something like 18 of 43 wells had any water left. Meanwhile Phoenix won’t pinch golf courses 3% for water usage.
We’re so fucked in the next few decades. More people moving to the valley, the ground water not being able to replenish, less precipitation, CA gets the lions share of the dwindling Colorado River water. There’s over 150 courses in the Phoenix “area” it’s ridiculous.
It would be cool to see California and Texas to invest in desalinization plants and send that water to the southwest. Relieve the Colorado of so much of its burden. Its another problem that can be solved, one can look at Israel and Saudia Arabia for an example.
This year might just necessitate retracting the decades part of this. It potentially will get very ugly if some projections come true. The oglalla aquifer has been a thing in some circles for 30-50 years. In summation, this year might have too much mascara and smell like cigarettes
What if a company is about to move in that area. (Chandler) and is going to use thousands and thousands of gallons on a weekly basis?
This is a really powerful game. It allows people to read about "green" options without forcing it down their throats. Really fun and I learned. I failed though. Temp raised 1.59 degrees.
I'd like to read more about the environmental concerns, even if the problem they are trying to address is existential
The environmental perspective from what I’ve read boils down to these 3 points -Energy intense, so CO2 emissions -Sea life like fish larva being sucked up in the intakes -Releasing brine back into the ocean, different plants have different methods.
Read something a few years ago, so might be a little dated, but it said the technology isn’t really there as it’s still not very efficient. Took like 3 or 4 gallons for 1 gallon of fresh water.
Seems like reverse osmosis is the most popular method nowadays and from what I read recently it’s gotten to about 2 gallons of seawater to get 1 gallon of desalinated water.
Well, maybe that will mitigate sea levels rising (probably a hot take to be heard on rw media at some point)
If the sea levels keep rising let’s make more desalination plants to offset the rising tide by draining the ocean checkmate, Mother Nature
Why we don’t have a Manhattan Project for Fusion is beyond me…you can produce the current energy needs of the Earth with a 10x10x10 foot cube of water which means pretty much limitless clean energy. We could decarbonize the atmosphere and turn deserts into oases using desal, could you imagine the world celebration
Do you think that fusion technology vs no fusion technology is the difference between a few million bucks??? Not sure what you’re actually suggesting here.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, was just venting frustration at something we ought to be doing to solve the problem
You compared to the Manhattan project. So I was wondering why you think fusion is a simple solution to what they did.
FFS he’s just saying why isn’t there just a collective pouring of minds and money in a motivated fashion to stop our planet from burning
Because fusion is a hell of a lot more complicated than an atom bomb, which we knew the solution, we just needed to pour resources into. Like the Covid vaccine. We knew we could make one, it was just a matter of manpower to shorten the timeframe. Fusion is completely different.
Fusion isn’t simple but huge gains were made in nuclear when there was a concerted government effort to bring it into being. Hard for me to think of you get the worlds top scientists in a room and give them unlimited funding wouldn’t yield a similar breakthrough. Fusion is actually super important because it brings energy costs to near zero. Desal and decarbonization tech exists already, but it’s super energy intensive and often times the economics don’t work which prevents us from using it on a meaningful scale Having an essentially unlimited source of clean, abundant, and cheap energy removes these constraints. Not only could we stop global emissions but could begin to reverse them by actively taking carbon out of the atmosphere