Newfie wrote:Outcast,
There are 2 arguments against that tactic.
The first is from using a standard risk likely hood/impact matrix. When a threat has a catastrophic impact then it should be mitigated even if the likely hood is low. Its the old “Whats the worse that could happen? question. If we dont mitigate we could exterminate humanity. If we do we spend some money and clean up the environment.
Secondly remember CC is but one manifestation of current unsustainable binge. If CC doesn’t get us then some form of resource depletion will. For example water is a huge problem not just for drinking but also for irrigation. Sooner or latter it will run out because we are using fossil water to run up the population. Hard limits exist to all resources.
Reducing our consumption helps CC and may other problems.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
mustang19 wrote:https://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange/region/us/16
Temperatures are expected to fall, a colder than average winter.
vtsnowedin wrote:While I don't doubt that circulation patterns can and do change I have to think that they cannot fail completely. As long as the tropics are warmer then the poles and the earth is rotating under the atmosphere, air will circulate from north to south and back again with cyclonic patterns caused by the earths rotation.
Amnesty International in a report Friday said that security forces had killed eight protestors, including a teenage boy, by deploying indiscriminate and deadly force. The clashes have continued since.
Severe droughts have affected parts of Iran since March, with protestors reportedly chanting "I am thirsty" at demonstrations as temperatures rise past 120 F. In an apparent bid to stop word of the protests spreading, Iran has imposed internet blackouts.
Newfie wrote:Interesting. I have long felt water shortage would become a major issue.
It seems the major news agencies have reported it, if you search for it.
Azothius wrote:not protests for political rights, not protests for economic reforms, not protests for food, but protests for water - getting pretty far down the hierarchy of needs.
Severe droughts have affected parts of Iran since March, with protestors reportedly chanting "I am thirsty" at demonstrations as temperatures rise past 120 F. In an apparent bid to stop word of the protests spreading, Iran has imposed internet blackouts.
JuanP wrote:
Did you mean to say pretty far up the hierarchy of needs?
In survival training there is something called the Rule of Threes, which states that you can survive around three minutes without air (drowning/suffocation), three hours without regulating your body temperature (heatstroke/hypothermia), three days without water (thirst/dehydration), and 3 weeks without food(hunger/starvation). Of course, those 3s may change to 4s, 5s, or 6s, but the basic rule order stands, with the consideration that hydration moves up one place in temperate climates were death from exposure is hardly a possibility. Keeping in mind that proper hydration is very important to regulating body temperature, particularly in hot, sunny weather.
Water is more important for human survival than political rights, economic reforms, or food.
Azothius wrote:JuanP wrote:
Did you mean to say pretty far up the hierarchy of needs?
In survival training there is something called the Rule of Threes, which states that you can survive around three minutes without air (drowning/suffocation), three hours without regulating your body temperature (heatstroke/hypothermia), three days without water (thirst/dehydration), and 3 weeks without food(hunger/starvation). Of course, those 3s may change to 4s, 5s, or 6s, but the basic rule order stands, with the consideration that hydration moves up one place in temperate climates were death from exposure is hardly a possibility. Keeping in mind that proper hydration is very important to regulating body temperature, particularly in hot, sunny weather.
Water is more important for human survival than political rights, economic reforms, or food.
Hi Juan, I was referring to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, with the basic physical needs to survive at the base:
Yes, i'm very aware of the rule of threes. And I totally agree, and meant to imply, that Water is more important for human survival than political rights, economic reforms, or food.
JuanP wrote:
A thoroughly depressing article on the current conditions in Brazil's Amazon jungle and Pantanal wetlands, respectively the largest tropical jungle and tropical wetlands of the planet.
theluckycountry wrote:JuanP wrote:
A thoroughly depressing article on the current conditions in Brazil's Amazon jungle and Pantanal wetlands, respectively the largest tropical jungle and tropical wetlands of the planet.
The Paraná River runs from Brazil to Argentina. It is the second-longest, 4,800 km or approx. 3,000 miles, river in Brazil, just behind the Amazon. It supplies electricity and water to 40 million people. At the current hydro flow rate, blackouts are likely this year, especially during peak hours.
And that's the problem with relying on alternative energy sources. Hydro is the best by far, but a drought is all it takes.
Good article
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