Rationale As the consequences to the environment of anthropomorphic climate change continue to worsen, it behooves us all to do what we can to mitigate their effect. The solution is well known: cease and desist using nuclear fission and fossil fuels to generate electricity and run motor vehicles. One obvious … Continue reading
Category Archives: Water
Megadrought
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Winning Over Republican Voters
November 9, 2020 The frenzy of election day may be behind us, but the turmoil and uncertainty continue: the calm before the storm, if you will. The reason for that grim assessment is because the Democrats did not win the hearts of roughly half the population. In simple terms, unless they … Continue reading
Ice-Breaking Apocalypse
November 26, 2017 Background Once again a study, in this case ice-breaking, has the scientific community in emergency mode. It turns out that two of the largest glaciers in Antarctica may actually trigger the disintegration of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet in a mere 20 to 50 years. … Continue reading
Maps of the World’s Water Crisis
July 15, 2017 Many aquifers are being rapidly depleted throughout the world, and this does not factor in climate change. Case in point, the southern portion of the Ogallala Aquifer, a prime agricultural region in the U.S., is estimated to have no more that 20 years left. Simultaneously, according to … Continue reading
Under the Dead Sea, Warnings of Dire Drought -2017
A study from Columbia University/Earth Institute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory revealed that the Middle East has experienced devastating droughts when the earth went through hotter periods 120,000 and 10,000 years ago. The data suggest this time around it may be worse due to a high demand for fresh water from a … Continue reading
Ogallala Drying Up
Dramatic article describing in great detail how the Ogallala Aquifer beneath eight (8) states in the Great Plains, the breadbasket of the United States and a good portion of the world, is being depleted at an astonishing rate. It’s fossil water 10 million years old, and rain does not recharge it. … Continue reading
Depletion of Aquifers
A study found in the Geophysical Research Letters of the Colorado River Basin that serves 40 million people in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, New Mexico and Nevada shows that the 14-year drought across the western United States has sapped underground water on a much larger scale than previously believed. … Continue reading