(Light bulb) Global warming is a very serious issue going around the world. If Mora's statement is true, does this mean that there would not be negative temperatures? No snow? Would snow be a thing our descendants would see only from the book?
Go back in your life to think about the hottest, most traumatic event you have experienced,” Dr. Mora said in an interview. “What we’re saying is that very soon, that event is going to become the norm.”
(Vocabulary) Caveats: noun) warning against certain acts
emissions cuts would buy critical time for nature and for human society to adapt, as well as for development of technologies that might help further reduce emissions.
! I didn't know Ogalala Aquifer was the breadbasket for America
It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world,
Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades.
Does this mean that you should be planting and farming your own food at your own house? What if you run out of food there too?
are fast approaching for those who do not have the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.
understanding water, soil, open-pollinated seeds, organic fertilizers, soil probiotics, insect pollination, growing with the seasons, sprouting, food harvesting, food drying, canning, storage and much more.
Important information that shows American are depending on cheap prices of food.
The very same problem is facing India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of the country. It's the same story in China, too, where water conservation has never been a top priority. Even the Middle East is facing its own water crisis
(NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry.
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America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable
Thursday, March 10, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: aquifer depletion, Ogallala, health news
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(NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry.
See the map of this aquifer here: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Ogallala.g...
Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America's heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America.
This problem with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared -- places like Happy, Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the 1950's tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant water at the time. But today the wells have all run dry.
Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades. That'
but a new study finds that fish, coral and other inhabitants of the tropics will be the first to take the brunt of climate change.
forced to cope with temperatures beyond their historical range in perhaps 15 years, a new climate analysis concludes.
animals in areas closest to the equator will be forced to cope with temperatures that are outside their historical range in as little as about 15 years.
animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable
Conditions in the tropics stay in a narrower range than in other places on the planet, so it takes a smaller shift to put creatures in peril
I knew this could lead to extinction! Without plant life, how will the environment be affected? Mainly, without plant life will humans survive or move into another planet?
face grave disruptions as well, from agriculture to water security to public health
"The optimistic way to look at this is that taking steps to reduce emissions is buying us time — for species to adapt, for human societies to change and to come up with technological advancements,"
I would think around this time, we would have already have come up with flying cars and life spans. What can future scientists do to turn global warming around?
great temperature increases expected in the Arctic.
first to experience unprecedented temperature changes surprised scientists who weren't involved in the research.
greatest variety of life and biodiversity and the poorest people in world live in the tropics, and the new climate shifts will be outside their parents' and grandparents' experience."
I would believe that animal extinction would mostly occur. Then we can't eat meat anymore. Veggies for life until plant life is extinct. Might it turn into cannibalism?
animals with shorter life spans will have more generations pass through a given time period
gives them more chances to evolve and adapt to new conditions.
by 2047, plus or minus five years, the average temperatures in each year will be hotter across most parts of the planet than they had been at those locations in any year between 1860 and 2005.
“the coldest year in the future will be warmer than the hottest year in the past,”
temperatures could be delayed by 20 to 25 years if there is a vigorous global effort to bring emissions under control
lowing emissions would have a bigger effect in the long run
If current trends in carbon dioxide emissions continue, we will be pushing most of the ecosystems of the world into climatic conditions that they have not experienced for many millions of years,