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Climate Change & Natural Disasters Thread

Individuals don’t matter. We have to stop climate change on industrial and national levels.
 
Building Resilient Cities That Are Ready for Climate Change

This was always going to be a part of climate change, but man it would have been nice if the world would have just listened 60 years ago...or even today. Now we're about to paper clip and bandaid our way through this. But hey, at least the fossil fuel industry is still boomin!
 
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Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool'


…Nasa, which monitors changing water levels, is warning that the western United States is now entering one of the worst droughts ever seen.

"With climate change, it seems like the dominoes are beginning to fall," Nasa hydrologist JT Reager told the BBC.

"We get warmer temperatures, we get less precipitation and snow. The reservoirs start drying up, then in a place like the West, we get wildfires".

These consequences are beginning to have "stronger and stronger impacts," Mr Reager said.
"It's like watching this slow motion catastrophe kind of unfold".

Farmers are already feeling the pain. About 75% of the water from Lake Mead goes to agriculture.
Over a third of America's vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts are grown in California. But tens of thousands of acres lie idle because farmers can't get enough water to grow crops.

The impact may be seen on grocery store shelves next year, Bill Diedrich, a Californian farmer, told BBC. This season's produce shows up at shops next season, he explained as he showed his bone-dry fallowed fields. Typically, he would plant tomatoes for canning on this field but he didn't have enough water.
Mr Dietrich said he hoped his children would have the opportunity to carry on farming in California in the future.

But, he said, "I don't know what the odds of that are"…
 
Good news for people who love bad news:

 
Good news for people who love bad news:


And people who hate coastal elites.
 
Oh fuck yeah!

 
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