@polarberry a lot of issues concerning white flight after the sixties riots. Not enough factory jobs in the city anymore. Now there are issues of gentrification in the midtown area. The city has issues, better than before, but still some issues. If you read the comments on Detroit news articles you can see open blatant racism against black people. There is a divide between majority black Detroit and majority white suburbs. The airport is pretty far away from the city. My school alma mater is in Detroit and it’s massively different from when I went there. The museums are world class.
My brother works for Ford and he's saving money for a house, his student loans are finally paid off and everything. Michigan is pretty and cool in the summer for the most part, maybe a week of 90 something degree weather.
There, that made more sense I thought I proof read it.
@jsr78 Your description of Detroit tells me it's in flux and the tension between the inner city and the burbs is going to change. It's going to get better.
Ever wonder about all the water fountains and pools in Las Vegas during a drought?
This is an interesting article about how the city uses water.
So, just how much of a drought is the Western U.S. facing?
Well, I have lived in the west for almost all of my live and even I was surprised.
The intense dry spell that has parched the western U.S. the past 22 years is the region's worst "megadrought" since at least the year 800, a new study says.
Megadroughts, which are defined as intense droughts that last for decades or longer, once plagued western North America. Now, thanks in part to global warming, an especially fierce one is back.
The study, published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change, said that more than 40% of the drought can be blamed on human-caused climate change.
“Climate change is changing the baseline conditions toward a drier, gradually drier state in the West, and that means the worst-case scenario keeps getting worse,” said study lead author Park Williams, a climate hydrologist at UCLA. “This is right in line with what people were thinking of in the 1900s as a worst-case scenario. But today I think we need to be even preparing for conditions in the future that are far worse than this.”
Thanks to the region’s high temperatures and low rain and snow levels from summer 2020 through summer 2021, the drought has exceeded the severity of a late-1500s megadrought that had been identified as the worst such drought in the 1,200 years the scientists studied.
“In a decade, we predict that many of our beloved and important glaciers will be gone. This will have far-reaching impacts, such as altering our beautiful landscape, affecting the livelihoods of people who rely on these natural wonders for tourism, and flow on effects from decreased meltwater during periods of drought,” he said.
This is in New Zealand and I know from travelling there over the past 40 odd years the changes, you used to be able to view on the West Coast Franz Joseph and Fox glaciers from the road and walk up to them. Not possible now they have retreated too far back to access by walking, only helicopter now. The lake that has formed at the base of Tasman glacier accessed from Mt Cook national park on the other side of the Alps is growing bigger. I rode a zodiac past icebergs up to the face of the glacier, that was over ten years ago I think.
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Hi everyone,
You may not know that they have found another continent which is mainly underwater with New Zealand and New Caladonia being parts of it called Zealandia.
There is now a hypothesis than the Zealandia switch is what caused the melting of the glaciers etc around the world 18,000 years ago has been switched on again by guess who. It’s worth a read, at least we will have a better idea why our feet are wet.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379120307332
All in keeping with the current science I have read although I was unaware of the Zealandia Switch. Yes, a rapid change seems to be in our future, sadly. At this point, our emissions trajectory is for zero ice on the planet (~230 ft sea level rise-- without calculating thermal expansion) but I hope we avert that outcome. That amount of sea level rise would not happen quickly but we could have enough sea level rise to create global trouble in the not-too-distant future.
@raincloud I hope it doesn’t happen, but sometimes I think the human race is not particularly bright.
A small bit of positive news for cleaning and removing nanoplastics from water. Link from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.
Both in laboratory tests and in a larger test facility located directly on the premises of the Zurich Water Works, the biologically active slow sand filter was the most effective at retaining nanoparticles – achieving an efficacy level in the region of 99.9%.