Scientists use clues from trees to put the current drought into perspective
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- To say it's dry in the West is an understatement - the U.S. is experiencing the most intense drought in modern history, U.S. Drought Monitor reported this week. The consequences are significant for the economy of the West and the rest of the country, which depends on resources that come from there. CBS News climate specialist Jeff Berardelli explains.
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it hit me hard when he said if that lake was at full capacity that he would be standing UNDER 80 ft of water where he was. smh.
If humans hadn't damned the river there wouldn't be a lake at all.
It didn't just go down this year. They have been reducing California reservoirs before this year because they were afraid a Dam would fail, or because houses were built below a dam such as Anderson. Before they would keep the Reservoirs full so now we have a even worse situation.
Not lake , it's a reservoir big difference. I'm hoping you understand the difference.
Do all the studies you want. The fact of the matter is, the people who can make a change never will because of money and greed.
What we have over us is the result of billions of wrong decisions taken during almost 2 centuries. We, everyone of us, as individuals, are responsible as consumers, voters, etc.
@@rmgwheelsspokeslab.7767 true, but those in power tend to get corrupted by companies funding their political campaigns. So the person we tend to vote for and their promises tends to be a lie, so they can just get elected.
Hyper loop will save us
The environment will go to Sh/t and life as we know it will change. However, if you are old enough to be reading this, we will all be dead or really old.
After the environment goes to sh-t, then the extreme rich will try to do something.
The rest of us, the peasants, life will be done thing like the societies seen in 'A.I.' and 'Mad Max Fury Road'.
Sure, now YOU have zero responsibility for anything bc you are just a weak pawn. Well done avoiding the necessity of effort.
"Major cities will be out of drinking water by 2025, wildfires will be rampant and Hoover Dam will no longer produce power." - A warning from 30 years ago that was laughed at. You reap what you sow. Now deal with it.
not here in nyc
The rich are already buying up all the propertys in the east. Especially Maine, VT, NH. A place that was 100k is now 300k all day. Its insane. Covid started it, and now global warming/ water will make it even worse
Please, folks, no gender-reveal parties!
i dont care who's having boy or girls, it's gonna arrive in 9 months
These parties are actually more of an idiot reveal nature.
Only really stupid people get caught off guard on real issues with the stupid stuff Fox news riles them up with. Good job, it worked on you.
@@Yinzerdude so many fires have been started because of gender-reveal parties.
But how will anyone know what my baby's gender will be?!
Those trees were around when native Americans discovered Christopher Columbus.
The oldest tree is Methuselah which is a Bristlecone Pine seeded in 2833 BC. It lives in the White Mountains and is thought to be the oldest tree on Earth.
@@roseroses7576 Wow. Thanks- someday I will go see those trees.
@@andyginterblues2961 Well, the actual Methuselah tree has never been identified to the public (to prevent vandalism).
@@andyginterblues2961 I was going to camp in those woods last summer, but Covid arrived. Ruined all my plans, but I can't complain. Nobody I know died of Covid. Which means I'm better off than many people. 2020 was horrible, and 2021 isn't looking good.
@@roseroses7576 Where exactly is this? I am determined to get the f*** out of New York state and take a loooong road trip to anywhere. I've always dreamed of going to Big Sur and Muir Woods but the fires and then COVID. A friend of mine lost her mom in the fires.
Dammit man, put our tax paying money into saving the damn planet. We need alot of Replanting to do.
@@captng - Did you forget that Bush Jr. opened up BLM and National Park 🏞 Lands to logging companies? Those forests are just now beginning to look healthy again. But you probably forgot that, because all you guys want to do is blame the Dems for everything. LOL!
@@captng - Huh? You said the current administration doesn’t believe in spending money to replant trees, Don’t vote Democrat, yet I’m the divisive one? LOL!
There used to be woods at the end of my street. They cut and bulldozed everything so they could plant 90 houses.
@@sophierobinson2738 in my geographical area of California we have to bulldoze our lots to clear-cut the trees so we can obtain fire insurance. literally all new construction will start with a clear-cut property .fire insurances becoming almost unattainable in Can add hundreds if not thousands to your mortgage payment. And as we all know mortgage companies usually don't loan unless you have such insurances
Planting aloe won't help!
I got an idea turn golf courses into forests. All of them.
Or leave them be as deserts.
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Yup. I call it "stop unterraforming Earth (before we try to terraform mars)".
That and stop logging i mean we have killed over 55% of the world's forests 35% of wich was burned or mulch or left there because its the rong wood.
Do you know how many endangered plants and animals there are now because of that
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Its been raining basically non stop here in Michigan
Here in California we are not running out of water, we are running out of CHEAP water
Cutting down trees causes dryer weather because it means less water vapor in the air
Tens of Thousands of trees are planted every day in this country
@@DickNasty480 That doesn't seem like very many. Can you clarify your source and the relevance of your comment to the parching of the Western U.S.?
Do you know about the HAARP program? It's not a conspiracy theory when it's an acknowledged federal budget item. HAARP explains all of this.
@@bitcoinconstitutionalist9252 LoL This drying has actually been going on since the last glacial period of the ice age. It's a periodic phase. So...is HAARP also functioning in the prehistoric past? Uh, other planets in the solar system...are warming up too, you know. Try researching beyond what people simply tell you about, okay. You don't want to be the bling guy who thinks an elephant is a spear, a rope, a snake, or a tree trunk.
Geo-engineering to fight “global” warming in addition to the HAARP program is causing all of this.
We have to treat our planet better
Agreed
when the sequoia trees that are known to be able to withstand wildfires and have done so for years start to burn up, we have a problem.
They’ve been burning up for millennia but the fact that we don’t let fires burn and the forests are so rich with old dead fuel we have created a very unnatural situation.
When you suppress fires for so long, and the forest finally burns, the heat is more intense then it'd be in natural environments. So, you can at least partly thank our fire policies for this.
Forests need fire to be healthy. Man created this problem by putting the fires out... and now blame Co2.
There is a problem with tree ring data. If a tree grows in dense forest the tree rings will also look smaller like in a drought condition. A cold summer will do the same thing also.
This report is fake news.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
That $100B "bullet train" they're building to connect Bakersfield to Fresno could build about 50 desalination facilities and probably nullify the worst of the drought.
@Don Kanis and are very expensive to build and maintain with current tech.
No one can afford to use desalination water without government subsidies.
@Don Kanis
Devastate is sorta an overstatement. It has its environmental costs. But what doesn't? Building more dams has impacts too.
@@CB-bl8sp
So? That $100B train is also subsidized too. BTW that train will be close to a trillion by the time its finished.
@@Iconoclasher not necessarily countering your point just wanted to point out the sad truth in America. The west part of the United States is mostly a desert if we allow nature to take its course.
Meanwhile here in Dallas we have WAY TOO MUCH rain! All the lakes and rivers are flooded. Entire parking lots under water.
"Modern history" for weather in the west is 136 years. Tree rings are the only way to know the growing history before 1880.
Not entirely. We can look at population of native Americans. Simply put if a city/town building culture never developed in an area that is a strong clue that excess food was a rarity in that region. History in the Americas is full of cultures building big structures but to the best of my knowledge that is well East of the Rockies or south of the Rio grande. That's not a knock against the native Americans of that region just an acknowledgement that they generally had to follow the food or had such food scarcity that food labor took up far too much of the labor for any serious building civilization to develop.
@@goodbodha Hohokam is an example . That is the name applied to an unknown Culture that lived in the Southwest prior to Columbus showing up . The onetime I visited Arizona We took a Back Pack overnight into the Mountains . After setting up camp we hiked down the Canyon to look at The Ruins . 3 Rooms and a Grainery . There was a Hand print from when they Parged the Walls with Mud from 1400 - 1450 . After seeing that I tried to learn more and was told there was a 30 year Drought followed by Constant raids by other groups . Then every one was Gone no more Cliff Dwellings built . Climate must have changed a lot in that Canyon ? I must have been a Nice place for the people to Build in that remote Area .
@@markcantemail8018 It is amazing how many settlements have flourished and then failed due to drought. Thanks for the name. I will read up on them.
If you ask the trees they say
Humans lifestyles in cities is causing the drought.
The USGS has documented all of the aquifers in this land.! Fracking does not fill them up. When they’re gone…
we aren’t far behind.
The ancient cliff dwellings of the southwest (New Mexico and Arizona) were abandoned around 1200 AD... they were never-reinhabited; this drought lasted over 250 years. We have known this since the 1940s. The SW should NOT be farmed with artificial irrigation. Las Vegas may soon have to be abandoned-when Lake Mead dries up-no water, no electricity.
If it is so bad why have lawns not been outlawed in these states ?
Or golf courses!
exactly
@@sherriianiro747 yes, golf courses. In the drought zones, water rules for the lawn have been in place for decades which consist of certain days and times and lengths you are allowed to water. Hence most have water efficient lawns because the grass would die otherwise. And a growing business is turf lawns.
But I think having a living lawn is still helpful to the environment instead of just dirt. We need more plants in the world and even cacti and succulents are creating oxygen.
But golf courses might have exemption from these rules. They have so many other exemptions of laws that seems pretty likely.
Please everyone try at least one thing that will help our ecosystem
Ok, developing a virus to wipe out millions of humans... oh crap, someone beat me to it...
Simple, let the forests burn. The fires are getting worse and worse partly because of the suppression tactics that have been used for decades. Fuel has built up, trees are dead or dying due to beetle infections and lack of water, etc. It's not healthy, forests need fire. We're doing more harm then good putting the fires out.
There's a reason the fire season was so intense in 2020. The biggest fire burnt through tens of thousands of acres of beetle infected trees. That forest needed it, and I'm glad it burned. Maybe now it can recover.
Yea. go and defecate on a dry tree trunk and wait hopping it grows up green again. Make America beautiful again😂😂🤣🤣😃😃😅😆😍 just having fun on ilutions.
If only we had some kind of warning....if only...
Nobody listens to the trees.
Everyone listens to money.
If money grew on trees, maybe people would listen.
Money kind of does grow on trees, that's part of the problem. We have to cut down trees to make paper.
@@bigmike1850 If you believe that my statement is invalid, then I support your opinion. It still doesn't change the fact of what I just said.
What you didn't notice is that its a riddle.
The bullet train funding alone could finance a desalination plant that could supply all of LA…….
It’s not that easy
@@Meemzmstr but it would help
But Newsom pelosi and friends won't get the money from Shipping the water from the Northern California Delta
@@Meemzmstr its not that hard either
@@Xfishf00D RECALL NEWSOM AND VOTE MEET KEVIN PAFFRATH FOR GOVERNOR
they have found tree stumps in Lake Tahoe preserved for 1000s of years ,showing there have been 100 and 1000 year droughts.
And they found fossilized trees in Antarctica pretty much proving that was once ice free, at least for a spell right? Its a trip the cycles of the planet whos timeline just cannot match our own...
I would like to add the most recent longest drought was 1,200 years starting in 800AD and ending 1000AD. What makes the wild fires bad was humans caused. In 1910 Pacific Northwest had the worst fire in its timeframe which help create the forest services. But because of that fire it because a mentality that any fire is a bad fire so for almost 100 years fires where immediately put out so all the under brush didn’t burn out but instead been building up for 100 years. So now during our hottest drought it is made worse by humans.
@@Winterfur1 where the proof of said 1200 years ago
@@chriswright8074 www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/25/california-drought-past-dry-periods-have-lasted-more-than-200-years-scientists-say/
@@zekeblack7004 are you stupid? So because Antarctica once had trees, climate change isn’t real? What a ridiculously uneducated opinion.
Why we haven’t started building desalinization plants yet along the west coast still blows my mind.
Good point but as a concern... what is then done with the residual salt brine?
for those who still brush your teeth while leaving the facet running, think twice before you continue this bad habit. First, wasting water, second, you brush too little time.
I’ll consider your advice during my extra long shower.
Yes & please turn running water off after you rinse dishes.
When I wash my hands, I turn on the water just enough to wet my hands, turn it off, soap up my hands, scrub for the 20 seconds, then turn the faucet back on to rinse them. I wish foot peddle faucets (like they have in hospitals) were more common.
I had to pump about 3000 gallons of rain water off my pool today. More rain today. My hose won’t reach California.
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It is NOT a drought...it is DESERTIFICATION...HUGE difference...drought implies a temporary reduction is precipitation...
The south west has been a desert for thousands of years my man. Pay attention.
I just went outside to the horse stables, and noticed the sound of needles and leaves dropping from the evergreens here. The trees all around my 30 acre place, are turning brown just after 3 days of heatwave. OAT yesterday here at least said 112F. Mountain Loop Hwy has melted in some spots. Robe, WA.
Various pine trees in the landscaping down here in Southern California are dying.
On a positive note, the reservoirs are half full..
But on a pessimistic note, the Resiviors are half empty
Next stop: mini ice age 🐧
Why don't we build an aqueduct from Texas to california. They have too much rain and we don't have enough of it
I live in Texas, and we are normally in drought. Not this year. I really hope we get climate change under control, and I hope the weather where I am in Texas stays the way it is right now. It’s gorgeous, and not nearly as hot as it normally is.
Texan to Texan; im sure your aware your standing on what was the sea floor right? And that all the way down in Glen Rose, along the Brazos right there, are more fossils and dinasour tracks than you can shake a stick at. Controlling climate change is dang near impossible. Lets suppose we spend 10 trillion a year, for 100 years. We still cannot defeat the wrong asteroid( ask t rex) the wrong solar event ( Carrington level or much worse) or the poles flip flop magnetically, etc. I contend all resources globally should be put into getting us off this rock, and leave it in peace. The sun is coming eventually; we sure need to be gone by then.
@@zekeblack7004 I love this rock. Though I agree we need the tech to be able to leave if need be.And we actually have the capability of controlling the amount of carbon. Even while still using fossil fuels. It wouldn’t even be that expensive to set up carbon capturing capabilities and harnessing it in different forms of energy while we find better cleaner forms of energy. We are going to spend a crap ton on electric vehicles while ignoring the footprint to make EVs, and fossil fuels that provide most of energy needed to run them. It would be comical if this wasn’t real life.
@@zekeblack7004
There isn't a "Planet B" to escape to. It's win or lose here on earth.
@@oltedders then its already game over. Our known timeline is either the Sun going gas giant here in a few billion and swallow this rock or when Andromida collides with us shortly after that and its game over. No man made anything survives. So unless we find planet b as you say, and i do believe they have evidence there are many habitable spots out there, if we will only stretch our collective arms. Like Krypton with the codex; maybe our experience on a hard drive, with a crisper and some lab equipment and a robot to run the show till we hatch back in our new spot. Never in the history of this planet we are aware of has all the nations and peoples of the world been on the same page. We spend a trillion here to fix " climate" , meanwhile, South America burns the rainforest to the ground. They wanna scream climate, and lightning, or even a flaming trash truck? But meanwhile, quietly, pee geee and e admit to killing 90 folks and burning down an entire town called paradise. Among others. Thats the same company you might be aware of from the erin brockavitch movie? Hexavalient chromium? Cali let them get away with stuff for decades, but Cali wanna put greta on a skyscraper. The French wanna have the Paris climate accord, but then are allowed to build the ITER plant? CERN is allowed to operate? In the middle of this wave of climate emergency, no one has held Japans feet to the flames over Fukashima. No my friend, we gotta figure something else out. No matter what or who does ANYTHING here, as i stated in the beginning; its already over.
The best is yet to come
Plant more trees
What role does all the bottled water play into this drought???
And agriculture in places that is to dry to have large scale agriculture
Like almond farms in California
Just all the PLASTIC of said water bottles is frightening.
Yes
Bottled water is mainly taken from municipal tap water and reprocessed, branded and sold for 10X the price. I put my tap water which already good, through a BRITA filter and I'm more than happy and don't have to buy all that plastic bottle waste.
Okay, let me see if I understand. California went through 4 other mega-droughts over the last 1,500 years, including one in the 18th century, but this one is "man made." And the way we know it is "man made" is because.....?
Exactly, every time this guy reports he says "human caused climate change". It is like someone is getting paid to say it. Like with covid the media sells fear with a hope to control people.
The HAARP program (that you paid for with your tax dollars) explains all of the answers to your questions.
It's man made because Al Gore says it is, and we have to give all our money to Al Gore and the Democrats to save the planet.
@@gid1776 Whenever or not it is human made climate change you should be concerned about it. A lot of our countries resources comes from the west. Also it is human caused, you are just manipulated by oil companies and the politicians they pay to misinform you.
Let's say "man assisted".
I remember when they had to cut down the oldest living tree because the boring tool got stuck. I guess the tool was considered not replaceable.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-accidentally-killed-the-oldest-tree-ever-125764872/
@@Industrialitis Did you see it too?
@@wadestanton Nope not that long in the tooth but I have read a lot about ancient trees, this one is interesting too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
@@Industrialitis Some of those giant tree clones have been with the same mycorrhizal mushroom since germination.
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We need more appreciation of nature around, go outside plant something watch the animals and throw giant sequoia seeds around we have lost 95%
They cut down 846 mature trees as part of their study to count tree rings.
So sad
That's very true
A lot of y’all not taking this serious because it doesn’t affect you now, but it will. Seemingly in the lifetime of you reading this.
What do you want to do?
California spent billions on the homeless crisis and it's worse than ever.
You think money from a carbon tax will be spent on global warming? It will go in someone's pocket and it won't be yours.
I've lived on islands and by the sea. I haven't seen anything alarming to spend billions or trillions of dollars on.
Call all of us in the comment section start planting trees instead of complaining about it
cutting down these trees needs to be a crim
I work in a sawmill :)
Century plus "droughts" are the norm for recent Cali/Western history (several thousand yrs) CO2 has essentially nothing to do with it except reducing water requirements for plants and increasing their health and growth.
How much water does SoCal divert to grow almonds and rice in the desert?
Loyalty is no match for power.
A lot of droughts are because bottling companies put all the water even from protected parks, into water bottles or beverages, that are stacked up in warehouses. The other parts of water are given to cattle, who dump it as waste water that would need a lot of purification to make safe for human consumption, if possible at all.
Kinda how they have always happened and our lifetimes really aren’t that important in terms of history
there's too many people living in California using up water supplies in an already dry area, if it weren't for other states providing water it would be even worst. I was surprised when I visited the south and saw that there were random ponds and rivers everywhere and so much green. I came back here and now realize how bad the dryness is.
and farming too. The central valley is good for farming but once again there's not enough water here to support the farms.
Thank you for finally bringing the Castle Fire and the Sequoia burn of 2020 to wider public attention. I have been saving a TREES BREATH TH-cam Playlist on the deeper story.
Make a new video on your TH-cam channel. Please your old videos hundreds of people have seen them.
@@insectbite1714 My first video got a few hundred, but not the next two (so I stopped). Thousands of Views for my most popular "Playlists!"
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I still dont get how we dont have some kind of rain water collection system under the streets like how much rain water goes wasted and all the sudden you need it like reservoirs and lakes are not enough
Instead of storing water and filling those reservoirs California officials send the water out to sea and they won't allow dead tree's to be removed from the forest which makes the fire danger even greater
We are overdue for an ice age - if we could just warm planet up a few degrees
You don't have to worry about it not getting hot enough in our lifetimes
Send him to prison for chopping trees down
The paradox is that in Luisiana and Texas there were severe floods one month ago
That's not a paradox, that's just how climate works. Not everywhere in the country experiences the same weather at the same time.
Water can't really fill those aquifers back up as it should, lack of vegetation, roads, paved spaces, straightened out rivers (to help with ease of transport) all work together in this though. We gotta figure out ways to get the water back into the soil.
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Keep removing water from the watershed. That will fix the problem.
how many iconic Forests went through the saw mill?
Many
Its not that there is a lack of water, there are just to many people using it. 50 million people use the Colorado river. It hasn't reached the ocean for years. Each person uses 80-100 gallons of water per day. U.S. population growth is expected to be 400,000,000 in 29 years. Do the math. there's not that much water now. Why isn't population ever mentioned as a cause of climate change?
It's the almond Groves that suck up all the water.
Meanwhile south Florida streets are flooded rn the irony
Plant as many trees as you can folks! If you got a garden or some property somewhere maybe.
Was the dustbowl not modern history?
We have to build up . Stop urban sprawl.
Woah real journalism what the heck yay
California should push for policies to modernize water use among farms. For example, indoor hydronic farms can reuse roughly 80% of water.
These old trees will be the only ones left after the entire state burns down.
Let the games begin....
In the divided states of America, we have states that experience yearly floods. Wouldn't it be in every drought states best interest to have pipe lines for water capture and harvesting?
This is fine.
It's very simple. We're adding more concrete that collects heat to our rising, bustling suburban neighborhoods and cities. Cutting down patches of tress that cool the ground and bring in moisture, So maybe one of these issues causing rise temperatures???
Each human is roughly 90% water. Say humans weigh 200 lbs, water is 5 pounds a gallon 180/5=36 gallons. Billions of people.
dane wigington lays out all of the science related to the droughts.
Not really "all" the science...
We need to start planting trees everywhere they absorb the intense heat if touched the top leafs of trees where the sun hits it a lot and they are cool not hot
That's a nice idea but the issue for that is lack of water. It can be done in small steps but that kind of thing won't solve this issue quickly.
People out West need to move and we need to do more farming elsewhere.
@3:18 notice tree root behind & left of wildlife officer’s shoulder looks like dead bison . Nature dying & speaking
Human activities have been grossly destructive of climate since 1900 . When we invented halogenated vinyl and halogenated carbon pollution the atmosphere began breaking down in a chemical fire that we have not addressed yet. Ozone cascade oxygen and nitrogen gases are being ionized to water and salt. We are down to six miles of atmosphere. The air traffic control went on strike over this working condition.
I believe the Petroleum industry that climate change isn't man made as much as I do the Tobacco industry that cigarettes don't cause cancer.
"Baby mega drought" What?
Avoiding meat and dairy is "THE SINGLE BIGGEST WAY" to reduce your environmental impact on Earth. 🌍 - Oxford University
As a child trash pollution was bad, now cleaner except the air that causes these extreme cold & hot temps!.
All this time they are still trying to put it together, don't they watch Nat Geo? 🤦🏿♂️
What does 'worst 22 year drought' even mean? CA has had droughts lasting 100 years within the last couple thousand years. Europeans happened to arrive in CA in a relatively wet period. I'm not saying human caused climate change isn't real, but we shouldn't automatically blame every weather change, even multi-decade ones, on it.
What the rings can't tell us is exactly how these extremes came about.
-science alert/ PNAS National Academy of Science
The HAARP program explains all of this.
But it confirms there has always been climate change.
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The five mass extinction events
If you study these five great mass extinctions, you’ll find several credible theories about what caused them. One of the most prominent is the rapid cooling or warming effects of climate change, brought on by asteroid strikes or multiple volcanic eruptions that emitted huge volumes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
So what’s that sixth mass extinction event? It’s the one we’re in now; the one scientists call the Holocene event, or the Anthropocene, or the Sixth Extinction. This one, however, isn’t caused by asteroid strikes or volcanoes-it’s caused by humans. -Bahai Organization
Rumor has it, the native American's SUV's were to blame for the mega drought 1200 years ago.
It will only change when it’s too late
What a suprise…
Well don't plant crops on land not meant for them. Pretty simple.
No drought in Missouri. Will not stop raining here.
Meanwhile, its nice in pennsylvania. Getting tired of cutting this green green grass.
Our civilization cracks me up we happily use up all of the earths resources then cry when we gotta deal with consequences lol
In Colorado, years ago, we could cut a Christmas tree in November it would last till May. About 8 years ago the trees were too dry to even make it to Christmas Day. Colorado is very dry...
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Desalinization might be the only hope.
But what do you do with all the concentrated salt brine that is produced from desalination?
@@dentatusdentatus1592brine is a problem in countries like Saudi Arabia. Not the case of the pacific ocean.
Don't live in an area where the climate can't support you, would be a better plan.
Imagine the amount of money a composting company could make from cleaning up the forests.
None. The leftist governments in the west would make sure they don't profit.
You can't "clean up" or "rake" the forest. Thats an impossible task.
@@jaredmehrlich6683 Not impossible, just not profitable.
@@patmcbride9853 You would need hundreds of thousands of laborers. You would need to feed and house these people. Most of the woods is on steep hills and in extreme places. THERES NO SUCH THING AS RAKING THE WOODS. Some sick old man made that up. I'm in Oregon... its not even a possible thing. Plus it wouldn't stop fires. Animals live there btw. You can't ruin their environment.
@@jaredmehrlich6683 You don't know what you need until you try, and it's not all steep.
A drought?? In Colorado it’s most rain in over 40 years
They have cutted the tree for study it 😱😱
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No.
It seems that we are experiencing what happened in the 1600s which was a worldwide famine due to a sudden climate change. It took a few years for farming to adjust.
Are you referring to one of the several occasions where it got cooler for a time? This isn't like those. This is going to be much worse and stagger towards worse for at least the next hundred years.
Go look at global average temps for the past 40 years. It is really obvious we are warming up. Humans will survive and adapt, but the adaption will leave plenty of people behind and is very likely to see a lot of chaos as some people fail to come to terms with reality. People as a whole need to consume less. That isn't going to happen overnight and for some it won't happen willingly.
@@goodbodha No, the climate had a permanent and sudden cold switch. It caused a worldwide famine. I learned about it in history. You didn't? The Earth has had that happen fairly often. This is nothing compared with the Younger Dryas event 12 thousand years ago. But there has been other sudden climate change events. Remember many civilizations in ancient history failed due to climate change.
@@roseroses7576 I did learn about it. My issue with that comparison is that one was a major cooling event and the other is a major heating event. The impacts from both are quite different. Both can lead to famines for different reasons. Also that was a minor bump in the road versus what is happening now. Take a look at the wikipedia link. There is a chart on the right side that should give you an idea of why this is a much bigger deviation from before.
Also it wasn't permanent. It went on for a long time for sure. It caused some big impacts for sure. Permanent though is a bit strong of a word for something that ended.
One thing that can be taken away from that period is that human societies lose stability when faced with major climate problems that cause shortages of resources. Losing stability is just a fancy way of saying folks tend to start doing stuff like wars, and seeing a major increase in criminal behavior as people begin stealing to make ends meet.
Another interesting thing to look at is the Mayan culture. There are pretty strong indications that it collapsed because of climate issues. The people reverted back to a more subsistence based lifestyle. I think there is a strong possibility that is where we are headed. Maybe to a bigger degree, maybe not, but we will have to put more labor into basic things and that will mean less labor going towards the bells and whistles. On the other hand with all that technology we have developed in recent decades it is possible we can adapt without as big a change to the labor division.
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If the western states simply ban ornamental irrigation like lawns and landscaping, and other low use high consumption facilities like golf courses, and private swimming pools, and ration water to a generous 100 gallons per person per day, there's plenty of water for all. That's painless. California, on the other hand, has to also decide if it wants high tech companies or farming. It can't have both.
Hurry it up with that spaceship or time machine. We need to colonize mars.
Mars is a lot drier.
were previous mega droughts caused by human caused global warming as well?