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Too many people living in the desert ... we'll be running out of drinking water long before the globe warms ...
Oh, cheer up. At least I didn't link the Sam Kinnison video on world hunger, about the starving people in the world, living in the desert with Sam sceaming We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them asshole!!
Luckily the republicans say there is no such thing as climate change, so I am sure it will bounce back soon, right?
I don't particularly. I am in beautiful green Tennessee. Water and plentiful rainfall abound here.Nobody cares about climate change s0n
You, uh.., think the illegals are changing the climate? Really? Well, that's one I hadn't heard before.Keep letting more and more illegals into Nevada and Southern CA and we'll see, won't we?
A sobering read is "Cadillac Desert". It's a history of the SW's politics and dealings related to water. You're 100% right that there's too many people living in that part of the US to be sustainable in terms of water. And we've known that for decades now.
Climate change will only hasten the real problems that are going to show up.
Climate isn't changing along the desert belt ... it will be sunny and warm almost all the time ... some people like that kind of weather ...
California has historically had droughts. The land in the central valley is basically desert that is irrigated from the far northern part of the State via a federal water plan that includes a canal and a system of man made lakes. The system is becoming incapable because of population increases over the years and increased agriculture. It’s time to build desalinization plants and pipe the water over to the central valley instead of building a useless rail system.
I get both arguements. Many good points on both sides.Keep letting more and more illegals into Nevada and Southern CA and we'll see, won't we?
Climate change will impact the desert SW as well.
It is possible that the various multi-year droughts that are currently happening there are a sign of this. The decreased snowfall in the Sierras may very well become a more common effect and the impact to America's agriculture will be devastating given how much of it we've put in the Central Valley. They are already overpumping their wells because surface water is getting scarce. Once those aquifers are depleted they will be effectively gone forever (the recharge rates on those aquifers are in the thousands of years and some may be collapsed and unable to be recharged).
Climate change is also going to have an impact on the Central Valley. Climate change may already be changing precipitation patterns in the Sierra's which supplies the surface water for the Central Valley.
The idea of desalination plants sounds good but they just shuttered San Onofre a couple years back. One of the "dreams" was to use the electricity generated by San Onofre to run desal plants as I recall.
San Anofre was a nuclear facility. I am talking about desalinization plants off shore. Then build a closed aqueduct (pipe) to the Central Valley. They can use less water from Far Northern CA.Climate change is also going to have an impact on the Central Valley. Climate change may already be changing precipitation patterns in the Sierra's which supplies the surface water for the Central Valley.
The idea of desalination plants sounds good but they just shuttered San Onofre a couple years back. One of the "dreams" was to use the electricity generated by San Onofre to run desal plants as I recall.
San Anofre was a nuclear facility. I am talking about desalinization plants off shore. Then build a closed aqueduct (pipe) to the Central Valley. They can use less water from Far Northern CA.
It's called brine.............and it should be deposited in salt mines if the volume is massive....Expensive ... and what do we do with the extra salt? ... [giggle] ... dump it back into the ocean? ... what could possibly go wrong? ...
CA is already scheduled to spend 105 Billion on a useless bullet train that won't be needed when people move away because of drought. There are new processes that use ammonia and carbon dioxide on the waste brine to create baking soda and no brine. This would be most effective in seas largely enclosed like the Red and Mediterranean seas (where most desalinization plants exist). The Pacific ocean is not largely enclosed so the waste brine would have little effect but, that same process could be used.Expensive ... and what do we do with the extra salt? ... [giggle] ... dump it back into the ocean? ... what could possibly go wrong? ...
It's called brine.............and it should be deposited in salt mines if the volume is massive....
But all ships on the ocean.........dump it into the ocean..........WE HAVEN'T DIED FROM IT YET HAVE WE.,,,,,,
CA is already scheduled to spend 105 Billion on a useless bullet train that won't be needed when people move away because of drought. There are new processes that use ammonia and carbon dioxide on the waste brine to create baking soda and no brine. This would be most effective in seas largely enclosed like the Red and Mediterranean seas (where most desalinization plants exist). The Pacific ocean is not largely enclosed so the waste brine would have little effect but, that same process could be used.
San Anofre was a nuclear facility. I am talking about desalinization plants off shore.
Which precipitation patterns are changing? ...
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