U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds

/sheds a tear for Lake Travis

Why haven't we had a damn flood since the late 1990's? The Colorado River valley used to be consistent.

I blame Bush KN!

To the extent that it is happening, there is little that we can do to stop it. The climate just isn't sensitive enough to co2 to be able to largely deviate from any natural cycle. People would pretty much need to stop burning everything but wood (maybe even wood) as a fuel source to stop any increase.

Of course I'm not okay with the data discrepancy, I believe that the data is insufficient. Unfortunately, by the time we have an effective sample size it may be too late.

I'm also not blind to the fact that some "Green Energy" Companies are making a killing off of the "Global Warming" panic machine.

But here's some food for thought; What's more likely, that 92% of the scientific community is in on the world's largest conspiracy ever devised, or that a small group of massively wealthy billionaires are attempting to protect their industry?

It just makes more sense to me to put more energy efficient things in my home, even at a greater cost, just to save energy costs. As quite frankly there's a very large waste of energy problem. The main issue is building going to the lowest bidder, and people liking convenience over efficiency. But that is much harder to address than the other factors.

I forgot which one almost swept away that animal sanctuary.

The Edwards Aquifer is at an all time low too.

Wait what? You claim that CO2 can't really cause large deviations in cycles, but then claim that stopping CO2 production from non-renewable would stop any increase?

So reducing our lifestyles to a medieval one is just asinine as it will make no difference.

Unplug your computers you hypocrites!

Unless it's currently being powered by you running in a giant hamster wheel shut it off, or shut your yap about global warming.

Go walk around in a hemp robe to raise awareness.

Unplug your computers you hypocrites!

Unless it's currently being powered by you running in a giant hamster wheel shut it off, or shut your yap about global warming.

Go walk around in a hemp robe to raise awareness.

Changing it to a medieval one is their goal, don't forget.

Nah, we can grow food pretty much everywhere it isn't cold

idk man...those goddamned new lightbulbs take like twenty minutes to warm up enough you can see to not fall down the stairs... might as well be earwax candles....

While the initial one time cost of paying, say, 3 dollars extra for a pack of energy efficient light bulbs may not seem like a good idea to the frugal, that extra 3 dollar cost could easily save 10x that amount of the course of it's lifetime, and may also reduce the number of bulbs needing to be purchased when they burn out at a higher rate than the energy efficient kind.

although, it's been estimated that in the natural course of a fluorescent lightbulb, which is harmful to the human eye, and the natural course of an energy efficient light bulb, the EE bulb tends to last almost 10x longer, on less power, and provides better lighting. So you're already saving more than 10x the entire cost within the first few months, and some EE can last for years.

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?

Much easier to bring water into someplace its not than heat someplace that's cold.

Much easier to bring water into someplace its not than heat someplace that's cold.

I heard CA's been having a rough go for the past few months decades.

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?

Much easier to bring water into someplace its not than heat someplace that's cold.

They've been siphoning water from other states for what feels like forever.

we're depleting aquifers irrigating mildly dry areas (in the USA), let alone deserts. that's a bad idea.

Sea Water

I didn't think desalination has been made cheap or easy yet, if so, huzzah!

A 75m line of motorised parabolic mirrors that follow the sun all day focuses its heat on a pipe containing a sealed-in supply of oil. The hot oil in turn heats nearby tanks of seawater pumped up from a few metres below ground – the shore is only 100m away. The oil brings the seawater up to 160C and steam from this drives turbines providing electricity. Some of the hot water from the process heats the greenhouse through the cold desert nights, while the rest is fed into a desalination plant that produces the 10,000 litres of fresh water a day needed to keep the plants happy. The water the grower gets is pure and ready for the perfect mix of nutrients to be added. The air in the greenhouse is kept humid and cool by trickling water over a wall of honeycombed cardboard evaporative pads through which air is driven by wind and fans. The system is hi-tech all the way; the greenhouse is in a remote spot, but the grower, a hyper-enthusiastic 27-year-old Canadian, Dave Pratt, can rather delightfully control all the growing conditions for his tonnes of crops from an iPhone app if he's out on the town – or even home in Ontario.

I'm not sure why people are getting hung up on the most basic piece of information here*.
*Actually, I do know, but whatevs.

Unplug your computers you hypocrites!

Unless it's currently being powered by you running in a giant hamster wheel shut it off, or shut your yap about global warming.

Is it bad that I'd seriously consider hooking my computer up to my bike in a generator stand (assuming such a thing exists) in order to operate it?