Is Water Redistribution To Control Climate Change A Viable Option ?

[Crick]

Each tenant is given a copy of the house rules along with the lease. They just don't think rules apply to them.

Important MOVING IN information​

You may park at the rear entrance to unload, but don’t block door or parking spaces.

Four-wheel dollies for your use in moving are in the laundry room. Please return promptly when finished moving in (or out) so others may use them.

Dispose of trash properly. Recycle items go in the green carts located on either side of the front entrance. Flatten large boxes and place between the carts. All other trash and garbage go in the dumpster located by the main driveway in the front parking lot.

Inspect apartment. Inform us of any deficiencies as soon as possible.

Place electric service in your name as per moving in date. Contact Gas and Electric

To avoid locking yourself out only use the upper deadbolt lock. By doing this you will always take your key with you. Lockouts occur when the lower knob lock is used. Very important!

Smoke alarm has long life battery but will ‘chirp’ if new battery is needed. Inform ...if this occurs. If cooking smoke sets it off it can be silenced by pushing the ‘test button’, or removing it from the apartment until the smoke clears (twist counterclockwise to remove).

If faucet drips, slow drains, or leaks under sinks occur inform... right away. ... can also show you how to avoid toilet overflows. You should obtain your own plunger, however.

Don’t move the stove from the position you find it. An air space is needed to prevent the sink cabinet and the stove side from rusting from spilled liquids. The refrigerator can be moved slightly as long as the door doesn’t hit the sink cabinet.

Visitor parking is in the small parking lot just behind ... house (the white house just west of... .), in the unmarked row, facing west. Visitors may not park in the center of the main lot, or in any space with a named sign.

Storage lockers are available if needed. Contact ... about this.

Do you have some other evidence that the country is a wasteland of destruction attributable to our public education system? I'm not sure someone parking in the wrong spot qualifies.

 

[Woodznutz]

Do you have some other evidence that the country is a wasteland of destruction attributable to our public education system? I'm not sure someone parking in the wrong spot qualifies.

Who do you think is responsible for disseminating necessary knowledge to the people, knowledge that they don't seem to possess? The educational system is responsible for 'monetizing' our problems instead of presenting solutions to them. Some of my grad student tenants are going into those fields, thus perpetuating the problems.

 

[Crick]

Who do you think is responsible for disseminating necessary knowledge to the people, knowledge that they don't seem to possess?

Can you specify some of this knowledge?

The educational system is responsible for 'monetizing' our problems instead of presenting solutions to them.

Would you suggest that education can be accomplished at no cost? Of course not. It has associated costs and many of those costs influence the quality of the outcome: the environment of the school - whether or not the AC works, comfortable, supportive classrooms, specialty spaces for labs, arts, phys-ed, books, computers, videos; the quality of the teachers; extracurricular activities, physical maintenance and others. Hard-working teachers demanding a living wage and sufficient funding that they are not required to purchase common supplies out of their own pockets is not a radical demand.

Some of my grad student tenants are going into those fields, thus perpetuating the problems.

Your grad students are hardly a representative sample of the nation's public school students.

 

[Woodznutz]

Can you specify some of this knowledge?

I would start with our problems and the impact they have on education. That would hit home immediately. I would quote a Bible verse, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. I would ask my students if they believe this to be true.

 

[ReinyDays]

This is a question I've struggled with since the 1970s, and I know that this borders on totalitarianism, but it is THE ONLY WAY, and I'm sure that as a scientist, you have to admit that. I realize there are enormous social issues of who decides who can have kids and when, but, none of this green crap with lighter cars and restrictions and EV vehicles is going to work--- both the cost is too high and the technology just isn't there, so, the only avenue left is population control, something I've already voluntarily adopted myself.

It is pure selfishness to keep having kids: My next door neighbors have gone from a couple to having four kids to now a total family of about 20. In the same time period extended forward, that family will be up around 200 people.

THAT IS THE PROBLEM. And until that is stopped (and since most people haven't the self-control or discipline to do it voluntarily, the only alternative, just like going in to get a check up or flu shot, is to sterilize people so they CAN'T have kids for the good of the planet, and this will not only fix most every problem mankind currently faces but will solve most every problem the planet and life on the planet faces as well.

You know I'm right.

Yes, I remember the Population Bomb by Paul and Anne Ehrlich in the 1970's ... forced sterilizations were a little before my time ...

Did China employ widespread sterilizations? ... if I remember, the technique was for the woman to get an ultrasound, if it was a boy, then have your one-child; whereas if it was a girl, get an abortion ... thus the demographic instability with 2 men for every woman ...

If that's the problem, as you say, then we need do nothing here in Western Europe and Anglo-America ... as I said above, these countries largely have their fertility rates below replacement ... and populations are shrinking ... I'm not a big fan of National Geographic's philosophical positions, but their notion that this is directly caused by fossil fuel affluence has merit ... "100% correlation" isn't correlation, it's cause-and-effect ... I don't know where that line is, but at some point, folks get rich enough they don't need kids ... so they stop having them ...

The discussion is moot ... anyone with electricity and internet connection already has their birth rates in check ... it's folks without electricity or internet whose reproduction is skyrocketing ... we need to burn more coal is all ... and give women guns, teach to aim for the balls, that alone will cut birth rates in half, maybe more ...

 

[toobfreak]

... as I said above, these countries largely have their fertility rates below replacement ... and populations are shrinking ...

They would shrink faster with active population control.

Problem is, 3rd world populations are not shrinking, they are expanding, and less than productive, these are a people who by and large just have a hand out with a need.

 

[Crick]

I would start with our problems and the impact they have on education. That would hit home immediately. I would quote a Bible verse, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6. I would ask my students if they believe this to be true.

What problems do you believe are due to educational failures?

 

[justoffal]

" Is Water Redistribution To Control Climate Change A Viable Option ? "

* Alternatives To Idea Starvation From Dehydration *

Countless dramas are related through the news about wild fires , excessive heat and desertification .

Most of the chatter about controlling wildfires directs to negligence in controlling brush that is likely a significant annual expense .

Though optioning properties facing east so as to take advantage of back yard shade through late morning , recently on occasion my location has been compelled against the sun .

With attire to deflect ultra violet light , a wide brim hat , long sleeve shirt and sometimes glasses , a water hose spraying over my head in an inverted cone moistens my clothes , without drenching them , and cools my body enough to drive on more easily and comfortably for an additional while ( that is true whether the atmosphere is or is not humid ) .

Most having visited a hardware store are likely familiar with air blown over water is applied to cool work areas .

With no filtration required , would it be a reasonable address of concerns for climate change by redistributing water to irrigate and retain organic biomass , or to cool and retain water , in select locations , with an objective of improving climate control over environmental change ?

Increasing the moisture content in vast swaths of geography should likely avoid rapid or deep erosion .

To deal with rising sea levels I don't understand why we don't build massive canals into the dryest areas of the earth. Some of the largest deserts in the world would no doubt have nearly incalculable capacity to absorb excess water.

 

[Woodznutz]

What problems do you believe are due to educational failures?

Foremost is the knowledge of health, physical and mental.

 

[Crick]

To deal with rising sea levels I don't understand why we don't build massive canals into the dryest areas of the earth. Some of the largest deserts in the world would no doubt have nearly incalculable capacity to absorb excess water.

Salt water?

 

[Crick]

Foremost is the knowledge of health, physical and mental.

You think that is this country's foremost education-related problem?

 

[Woodznutz]

You think that is this country's foremost education-related problem?

Absolutely. Productivity and quality of life are dependent on good health.

 

[ReinyDays]

They would shrink faster with active population control.

Problem is, 3rd world populations are not shrinking, they are expanding, and less than productive, these are a people who by and large just have a hand out with a need.

True ... we should focus our efforts to bringing these people basic refrigeration ... and maybe some hotplates to cook with ... these folks can't be as productive without electricity ... and there's certainly no pension plan, just their own children who survive to care for them in their old age ...

Let's learn some lessons from China ... if a man is lucky enough to have a wife, he has her, her parents and his own parents to feed, clothe and house ... although I would like to believe China is a little more modern than that ...

 

[Crick]

Salt water?

And you might want to do some math. One foot of the world's oceans would cover all of Saudi Arabia to a depth of 168 ft.

 

[Crick]

Absolutely. Productivity and quality of life are dependent on good health.

How about some basic science, sex ed, logic, statistics, human relationships, ethics, philosophy, the arts?

 

[toobfreak]

True ... we should focus our efforts to bringing these people basic refrigeration ... and maybe some hotplates to cook with ... these folks can't be as productive without electricity ... and there's certainly no pension plan, just their own children who survive to care for them in their old age ...

Problem is that these people's OWN GOVERNMENTS ought to be creating the opportunities and fixing the problems there themselves making themselves and them all productive and self-actualized, instead of expecting the USA to "help them."

The problem with mass immigration is that it reveals a problem best fixed THERE, instead of dumping it on others.

If things were good THERE, they wouldn't need or want to "immigrate."

 

[Crick]

Problem is that these people's OWN GOVERNMENTS ought to be creating the opportunities and fixing the problems there themselves making themselves and them all productive and self-actualized, instead of expecting the USA to "help them."

The problem with mass immigration is that it reveals a problem best fixed THERE, instead of dumping it on others.

If things were good THERE, they wouldn't need or want to "immigrate."

Which means to solve the problem, they need to be fixed THERE. Blocking immigration without at least simultaneously working on solving those problems simply increases the suffering without doing diddly squat to change the status quo. It's not going to force people to solve problems they lack the capability to do anything about. The problem isn't a lack of will or dedication, it's a lack of basic resources.

 

[toobfreak]

Which means to solve the problem, they need to be fixed THERE. Blocking immigration without at least simultaneously working on solving those problems simply increases the suffering without doing diddly squat to make things better. It's not going to force people to solve problems they lack the capability to do anything about. The problem isn't a lack of will or dedication, it's a lack of basic resources.

That is not our problem. We need to bill these countries for the cost of taking their people at so high a rate that they would be glad to create economic opportunity for their own people instead.

 

[Woodznutz]

That is not our problem. We need to bill these countries for the cost of taking their people at so high a rate that they would be glad to create economic opportunity for their own people instead.

The biggest cause of their problems is our insatiable drug use, support for the cartels, street gangs, etc.

 

[Woodznutz]

To deal with rising sea levels I don't understand why we don't build massive canals into the dryest areas of the earth. Some of the largest deserts in the world would no doubt have nearly incalculable capacity to absorb excess water.

The salt would be problematic. Better to find ways to moderate rainfall by greening up the earth, more grasslands, permanent pastureland, etc.