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It actually doesn't fall on the plain ... or anywhere else
Spain experiencing severe drought due to climate change |
Joseph Romm |
03 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Warming-driven desertification is spreading. Australia has gotten the most attention, but Spain is also turning into a desert. As Time reported: Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in a century as a result of climate change -- this year's total rainfall, for example, has been 40 percent lower than average for the equivalent period, and the country's reservoirs are, on average, only 30 percent full. The reservoirs serving Barcelona are only 20 percent full, and ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, desertification, severe weather, Spain, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Australia today = the Southwest by 2050
Lessons the United States can learn from the drought in Australia |
Joseph Romm |
04 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The brutal drought has ended over large parts of Australia -- and consumers are obsessively reducing their demand for water -- and yet water 'prices are set to double in the next five to 10 years,' Water Services Association Australia executive officer Ross Young told a drought briefing in Canberra. The focus on water conservation has never been higher: Water is a dinner table topic. People are quite passionate about water and they are quite concerned about wa ... |
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| Topics: Australia, desertification, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Water, water ... nowhere
Science says we are turning the West into a desert |
Joseph Romm |
24 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A major new study in Science by a dozen water experts, concluded humans are the primary cause of changes in Western river flow, winter air temperature and snow pack in the past 50 years -- and things will only get worse if we don't act soon. The abstract of the study, 'Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States' (subs. req'd), led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, states: Observations have shown that the hydrological cycle of ... |
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| Topics: desertification, water crisis (all these topics) |
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For those planning on growing a lot of biofuels
Anyone got those cans of instant water? (Just add water) |
JMG |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'A drought for the ages. |
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| Topics: climate, desertification, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics) |
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When the western gas boom goes boom
Declining production and what comes next |
Erik Hoffner |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This week the Durango Herald discussed the steadily declining production of methane gas from wells in southern Colorado's La Plata County and what impacts there will be when the wells go dry. Unfortunately, the article focuses only on the economic implications and goes nowhere on the topic of what the landscape will look like when those companies pull up stakes for new pastures. Even if all the well pads are reclaimed, which would be a miracle, what kind of rangeland ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, desertification, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Story of the day: Nukes and global warming
The two don't mix well |
Joseph Romm |
21 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This story deserves singling out because it is on an important but too-neglected subject -- the connection between energy and water. 'Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water,' from the International Herald Tribune. Key point: Nuclear power 'requires great amounts of cool water to keep reactors operating at safe temperatures. That is worrying if the rivers and reservoirs which many power plants rely on for water are hot or depleted because of steadily rising ai ... |
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| Topics: desertification, energy, nuclear power, water crisis (all these topics) |
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