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,
(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'
animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable, researchers said. 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,
The team also examined conditions for 54,000 locations around the world. Under a business-as-usual scenario, Los Angeles will see permanent changes to its climate by 2048. If strong measures were taken to curb emissions, Angelenos would have an extra 31 years to adapt, the study found.
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.
Does cope in this situation means that animals have to suffer from a climate changed that they never experienced before? For example polar bear would trying to survive with hot weather?
e their historical range in as little as about 15 years.
Is global warming the only problem that is causing this problem?
animals i
adapt to higher temperatures
Los Angeles will see permanent changes to its climate by 2048.
curb emissions
Washington's climate will change radically by 2047
The shift to consistently warmer temperatures poses a considerable threat to thousands of plant and animal species that will have to move, adapt or face extinction, experts warn.
Although organisms all over the world will have to find ways to adapt to higher temperatures, animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable, researchers said. 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, said biologist Eric Post, director of the Polar Center at Penn State.
"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," said study coauthor Abby Frazier, also a graduate student in geography at the University of Hawaii. "It lets us put on the brakes. If you were about to get into an accident, wouldn't you want it to happen at 20 mph rather than 80?"
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.
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.
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
"There used to be 50,000 head of cattle, now there's 1,000,"
A large percentage of the food produced in the United States is, of course, grown on farmlands irrigated from the Ogallala. For hundreds of years, it has been a source of "cheap water," making farming economically feasible and keeping food prices down.
The problem is called aquifer depletion (http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aquifer_depletion), and it's a problem that spans the globe. It means that today's cheap, easy food -- grown on cheap fossil water -- simply isn't sustainable. Once that water is gone, the croplands that depend on it dry up. Following that, erosion kicks in, and the winds blow away the dry soils in a "Dust Bowl" type of scenario.
This has caused food prices to skyrocket, leading directly to the civil unrest, the riots and even the revolutions we've seen taking place there over the last few months.
Based on the huge demand for this event, we have decided to roll out a second preparedness event in April, focused on food preparedness and security. Watch for an announcement on that soon.
From living in South America and producing quite a large amount of food there, I have a fair amount of experience on home food production,
such as the drying up of aquifers is that home food production is going to become a critical survival skill.