It's Good News Friday! (CLIMATE CHANGE)

Between this and the various SARS viruses that have come from China over the past few decades, I wonder if the universe is trying to tell us something?

1/3 of Pakistan is under water. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62712301

It absolutely amazes me people say that climate change is a hoax when it's been obviously here for years now and is clearly getting worse.

Yeah we're pretty fucked. The current conditions seem to be way worse than (or at least way ahead of) what the various climate models predicted.

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink, in Jackson, MS.

I hope our Californian Wordforgers remembered to not plug in their EVs this weekend!

High chance of blackouts in California as state enters 'most intense phase' of heat wave

@Faceman? @Shirogayne?

I drive a car with a 2.5liter 4 cylinder turbo, if that helps.

We're told to conserve power between 4 - 9 today so that leaves plenty of time for people to plug in their Teslas.

The general feeling is that some climatologists were being very optimistic about our climate models, that the UN report from several years ago may have inadvertently underplayed the danger we're facing in the next few decades. Quite honestly, I expect the drastic effects from the climate shift forecast for us by 2100 to hit us by 2050.

I wish I had an EV, but I honestly haven't driven much in the last two years.

Also it was like 116 here today and is currently 93 at 10 pm, so that's fun.

Yes, I saw Governor Newsom's video announcement about this while he was inside wearing a fleece jacket during a 110+ heat wave...

I like the guy but he has to work on his image on things like that.

The AC inside the emergency operations center is apparently very good.

Same. I bought my car in July 2019. And we all know what happened the next March. Today I don’t even have 17,000 miles on it - most of those pre pandemic.

Russia is adding to the climate woes, both directly and indirectly. Since they've stopped piping gas to Europe in retaliation for our support for Ukraine, they are having to burn off the surplus due to not having enough storage capacity. And most affected countries are transitioning back to coal as a stopgap.

I actually moved to Nevada a while ago,but it's been hot as balls here in Reno too.

Course, it took till July to actually warm up this year

Whoops! I think I saw that in the Green Room.

It's like California, except it's Nevada.

Doomsday Glacier Is 'Holding on... by Its Fingernails'

We’re boned.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds

Has anyone come across any articles that say what the water solution is for the southwestern United States other than "thoughts and prayers"?

Just curious, because it doesn't look like the Colorado River and associated lakes/reservoirs are going to magically get better.

I'm assuming desalinization plants along the Pacific coast are an option, but the politics of that would be very dicey.

Another option would be mass evacuation to more habitable climates, but I can't see that happening.

The State of California and Nevada could make a case against Nestles. But, they won’t.

The answer is grass!

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-09/uc-riverside-turfgrass-research-jim-baird

Water rationing, CO2 reduction, and that's about it. Someone has suggested that since parts of the Eastern US routinely flood, we should build absurdly expensive aqueducts to send the water out West. Nobody takes this idea seriously, but I doubt that the total price tag would be more than what we've spent on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Puerto Rico is getting flattened by a hurricane.

Also, 4 million people ordered to emergency shelters in Japan due to a typhoon, but local stuff leads. The BBC only put it in the ticker, the Queen was still the focus.

Is the Queen ok?

She got gassed along with the mayor of Portland last night.

It's nearly 110F in PR today, and most residents have no power or water.