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Just so we're clear: fresh water is shifting location ... when it comes to the total available, it's increasing. There are many more locations were humans can n

by spwa4 1y ago

Just so we're clear: fresh water is shifting location ... when it comes to the total available, it's increasing. There are many more locations were humans can now live where they couldn't a century ago, not less. The issue is not that we can't live anywhere. The earth is greener than before. The issue is that there are a small number of locations where humans can't live anymore, especially not without good water management. Obviously, people don't want to or can't leave, and some of the locations that didn't use to, but now really do require proper management have a LOT of people. Teheran has more water than a century ago. But more does not mean infinite.

conartist6 1y ago
Source on this info?
- spwa4 1y ago
  The entire working mechanism of climate change is increased water in the atmosphere. That's why it's getting warmer. CO2 and other gases only accelerate that process a little bit (but as we're at the end of the warming cycle, "a little bit" should be interpreted as accelerating warming by a little bit, if you count the number of years it brings warming forward, that's a lot. Probably a millennium, maybe more). Obviously it also makes things warmer and generally wetter, thereby making very large areas livable that weren't livable before. The entire inside of India used to be desert. That desert did not just reduce in size, it split in three pieces and two of them shrunk to zero, and even the third is turning green. The Sahara too is less than half the size it used to be. https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green Also, large regions closer to the poles are becoming warmer ... and that means livable. And yes, elsewhere deserts are becoming worse, for instance in Spain. It doesn't really matter though, as humans are not exactly short on space, and this means we'll need to move large populations in the next century.
- more_corn 1y ago
  The news? You could search for things like “scientists show how climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather”
pabs3 1y ago
The water cycle is also becoming more unstable and unpredictable.

by spwa4 1y ago

conartist6 1y ago

Source on this info?

spwa4 1y ago
The entire working mechanism of climate change is increased water in the atmosphere. That's why it's getting warmer. CO2 and other gases only accelerate that process a little bit (but as we're at the end of the warming cycle, "a little bit" should be interpreted as accelerating warming by a little bit, if you count the number of years it brings warming forward, that's a lot. Probably a millennium, maybe more). Obviously it also makes things warmer and generally wetter, thereby making very large areas livable that weren't livable before. The entire inside of India used to be desert. That desert did not just reduce in size, it split in three pieces and two of them shrunk to zero, and even the third is turning green. The Sahara too is less than half the size it used to be. https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green https://theweek.com/environment/sahara-desert-turning-green Also, large regions closer to the poles are becoming warmer ... and that means livable. And yes, elsewhere deserts are becoming worse, for instance in Spain. It doesn't really matter though, as humans are not exactly short on space, and this means we'll need to move large populations in the next century.
more_corn 1y ago
The news? You could search for things like “scientists show how climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather”

pabs3 1y ago

The water cycle is also becoming more unstable and unpredictable.