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- utopian1
Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, cost the U.S. $165 billion in 2022
- utopian0
King Charles drops plan to attend climate summit after government asks him not to attend.
- utopian4
What will happen if Lake Powell's water level continues to drop?
Lake Powell's water level was at around 3,529 feet as of Thursday, or 24% full.
Federal officials took emergency steps in May to use water from upstream reservoirs to boost Lake Powell's level and buy the surrounding communities more time to plan for the likelihood the reservoir will soon fall too low for the Glen Canyon Dam to generate hydropower.
The dam is a key source of energy in the region, generating power for as many as 5.8 million homes and businesses in seven states, and is at high risk of being forced offline should the lake's level drop below 3,490 feet above sea level.
- wow, used to go there as a kid with my dad in our boatYakuZoku
- Same here... used to spend weeks on that lake at a timePonyBoy
- Can i charge my tesla?ApeRobot
- I visited Lake Mead a few years ago, it now looks like a dried-up desert with a few trickling streams...Lake Powell look worst.
- Go Humans!utopian - what lake?sted
- Some locals that have been updating for a year or so... https://youtu.be/CHN…keewee
- there was an urban legend of giant car sized catfish that were supposed to live by the damnYakuZoku
- Guess dumb fucks should of voted properly vs GOP anti-science...hydro74
- u dont need a river u need bitcoin...neverscared
- Was lake power a man made lake?Gnash
- yeah... just the colorado damed up (like mead etc: https://bit.ly/3Scbe…)PonyBoy
- *dammedPonyBoy
- grafician1
"Europe has had the hottest summer on record, according to EU's climate monitor."
- "The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe's recorded history as the continent baked in record heatwaves and the worst drought in centuries"grafician
- Brexit, no regerts.palimpsest
- utopian0
- Come to Pittsburgh. Rains every fucking day here.section_014
- Pittsburgh gets more rain than Portland.fooler
- ^ Is that true? The UK is synonymous with rain but we have had one day of rain in 3 months!!Hayzilla
- utopian2
California Fire and Floods Turn a River to 'Sludge,' Killing Thousands of Fish.
- utopian4
Nebraska and Colorado are sparring over water rights. It could be the new norm as rivers dry up.
Residents on this state line have built their industry, economy and lives around the South Platte River. But as an intense and widespread drought digs into the High Plains, flows have decreased.
Unwilling to leave things to chance, Nebraska has taken action by invoking the fine print of a century-old water compact between the two states — and sparking new tension in the process.
- utopian4
- lol @ DV, ffs.Nairn
- Netflixpalimpsest
- but less chance of chill.Nairn
- Are we fucked?NBQ00
- colin_s0
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boulder, colorado right now
- Bluejam0
"The book, however, is less focused on solutions than on clarifying the scale of the problem, the horror of its effects. You could call it alarmist, and you would not be wrong. ... But to read The Uninhabitable Earth – or to consider in any serious way the scale of the crisis we face – is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism. To fail to be alarmed is to fail to think about the problem, and to fail to think about the problem is to relinquish all hope of its solution."
- utopian0
Nasa warned the Earth is trapping twice as much heat as in 2005 — a pace that's 'unprecedented'
NASA researchers warned the Earth is trapping heat at a rate so much higher it's "unprecedented."
The amount of heat being trapped by Earth has roughly doubled since 2005, the study found.
The NASA and NOAA study pointed to human activity and changes in the oceans.
Researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found in a new study released earlier this week that Earth's "energy imbalance approximately doubled during the 14-year period from 2005 to 2019."
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