Climate Change: not so good for anyone (especially for snow seasons and drinking water)
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Whilst intellectuals like Andrew Bolt claim the continuing global warming will be delightful (perhaps in Siberia), I submit to you the following evidence.
How about increased dust storms in the USA? Dust storms look like they probably will speed up snow melt. That sounds pretty crap.
One of the biggest problems, scientists say, is that each storm deposits a layer of dark material on the mountain snowpack; that layer absorbs the sun’s heat and causes the snow to melt earlier. Thomas H. Painter, a University of Utah cryospheric science professor, has calculated that dust deposition significantly reduces snow’s reflectivity.
“It’s effectively like turning up the sun 50 percent and putting that energy into the snow,” he said.
The earlier snowmelt changes the blooming and growing times of vegetation, triggering ripple effects that hurt Colorado farmers. Steve Vandiver, general manager of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, said farms in the valley are getting the snowmelt runoff two to four weeks earlier each year, making it difficult to keep grain and potato crops irrigated.
“A lot of the water’s gone by the time the crops need it,” he said.
How about the world’s forests not being able to sink carbon anymore. That sounds pretty lame too.
The Artic is pretty much completely up shit creek.
Adelaide, capital city of South Australia, will probably run out of water in 2 years, as the Murray River continues to die rapidly. Melbourne, where I live, is running short as well. It simply doesn’t rain as much as it needs to in the south east of Australia anymore. We previously wrote about water shortages here. If you aren’t across the impending global water shortages, read more here.
And that’s with things as they are. As sea levels rise, people (for instance, millions and millions in Asia), will have their drinking water and land compromised, and they will need relocation. Oxfam also has a summary here.
Your greatest enemy: climate change and those who seek to deny change.
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