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#droughts

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Preston MacDougall

@petergleick The #Trump #kakistocracy will probably fire Brian Fuchs and shutdown the National #Drought Mitigation Center so that there will be no awareness of #droughts and #Wildfires can simply be ascribed to “Acts of God”, like the predicted #TexasFloods where endangered children were not evacuated because a #MAGA coward didn’t want to be accused of ‘crying wolf’ on the slim chance that the #floods didn’t materialize.

#Resist #fascism in #USpol to combat #ClimateChange.

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Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺

#Iraq is grappling with one of the worst #droughts in its history. #Water levels in Turkish dams feeding Iraq’s #rivers remain critically low, and this year’s winter rains have failed to provide enough water for drinking or farming. As droughts become a recurring crisis, the environmental and cultural heritage of the Fertile Crescent – the cradle of ancient Mesopotamia – is slowly vanishing. FRANCE 24 report by Josh Vardey and Marie-Charlotte Roupie.
#ClimateChange
youtube.com/watch?v=ixMlERhOpsE

YouTubeIn Iraq, drought threatens water supply and ancient heritage • FRANCE 24 EnglishBy FRANCE 24 English
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RaymondPierreL3

Driving along (as you do) ABC National was on with some wank discussing data centers water requirements. Right off the bat, this ‘expert’ (didn’t catch his name) talked about everything water utilities should be doing to accommodate data centre and deflected every thing from #water shortages, draughts, arid country and what the impact on civil society will be during water restrictions… I lasted 5 mins tops. I turned the radio off before I caused an accident. Thanks #ABC for making my day by giving the pro-data center guy oxygen and painting the elephant in the room fade-to-black.

I tell you what, if there is such a big market for stupid LLM-based chatbots, Data Centres don’t have to be built here don’t you know. There is such a thing as the Internet and its infrastructure has been used for decades. Begs the question doesn’t it? WHO benefits ($$) from buildling a data centre to power Generative AI (aka chatbot) in Australia?

Had it up to here with GAI…

#GiveMeBackMyABC#DataCentre#WaterSUpplies
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ABC Feeds

Farmers call for financial assistance as 'green drought' takes a toll
By Emily Doak

Recent rain in southern New South Wales has put water in dams and given paddocks a healthier tinge, but farmers say the drought is far from over and they need financial assistance.

abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-07-

ABC News · Southern NSW farmers call for financial relief as ongoing drought takes a tollBy Emily Doak
#Droughts#BeefCattleFarming#SheepFarming
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Australia's sheep flock shrinks with at least two years until recovery
By Emma Field, Annie Brown, and Justine Longmore

Australia's sheep flock continues to decrease due to drought, with ewe numbers expected to drop 9 per cent over the next year.

abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-07-

#SheepFarming #WoolGrowing #Droughts #AgriculturalPrices #EmmaField #AnnieBrown # #JustineLongmore

ABC News · Australian sheep flock to shrink further with no recovery forecast until 2027By Emma Field
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RSPCA rescues 60 horses on Victorian property as cruelty reports surge
By Coco Veldkamp

RSPCA inspectors collect 131 animals, including 30 dogs at a single location, in "multiple large-scale animal cruelty operations" across the state, saying animal owners are struggling with drought conditions and cost-of-living pressures.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-08/hor

ABC News · RSPCA Victoria rescues 131 animals in a week as cruelty reports surgeBy Coco Veldkamp
#HorseFarming#Droughts#AnimalCruelty
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Grazier grows crops in cattle country to keep stock fed in next drought
By Maddelin McCosker

Grazier Boyd Webb is running an outback cropping experiment to get him through the next drought, growing sorghum to bury as insurance against the next big dry.

abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-07-

ABC News · Western Queensland grazier turns to cropping to prepare for next droughtBy Maddelin McCosker
#CropHarvesting#LivestockFarming#Droughts
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TinJar

newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06

Ways to address the food crisis -
1. Minimize red meat #consumption, especially, #beef
2. Allow #fertility rates to fall and focus on #redistribution of existing #food to feed the #poor
3. Since working in #farms will soon be impossible thanks to #heatwaves #droughts #floods #pests ; build enclosed #vertical farms and #precision #fermentation

All three ideas are incorporated in #solarpunk #hopepunk #novel "A New Faith"

The New Yorker · Do We Need Another Green Revolution?By Elizabeth Kolbert
#books#bookstodon#climatechange
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DoomsdaysCW

International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing #BigOil to Pay for #Climate Destruction

"People are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of #FossilFuel giants all over the #storms, #floods, #droughts, and #wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said the head of one green group.

by Eloise Goldsmith, Jun 19, 2025

"Large majorities of people around the world support both taxing #oil, #gas, and #coal companies for the #EnvironmentalDamage made worse by fossil fuels and using higher taxes on #polluters to support communities most impacted by the #ClimateCrisis, according to the results of an international survey released Thursday.

"The study, which was jointly commissioned by #Greenpeace International and #Oxfam International, surveyed roughly 1,200 people in each of these 13 countries: #Brazil, #Canada, #France, #Germany, #India, #Italy, #Kenya, #Mexico, #Philippines, #SouthAfrica, #Spain, #UnitedKingdom, and the #UnitedStates. The research was conducted by the data company Dynata, and field work was done between May 9-28, 2025. Greenpeace noted that, taken together, the countries represent close to 50% of the globe's population.

"The results of the survey showed a whopping 81% of those surveyed would support taxes fossil fuel companies to pay for damages wrought by 'fossil-fuel driven climate disasters.'

"These survey results send a clear message: people are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of fossil fuel giants all over the storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said #MadsChristensen, the executive director of #GreenpeaceInternational.

" 'It's only fair that those who caused the crisis should pay for the damage, not those suffering from it,' he added.

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Common Dreams · International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing Big Oil to Pay for Climate Destruction | Common DreamsSurvey shows global support for taxing fossil fuel companies to pay for climate damage and help impacted communities.
#BigOilAndGas#BigCoal#BigOilLied
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Declining Freshwater Availability in the Colorado River Basin Threatens Sustainability of Its Critical Groundwater Supplies
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doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
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livescience.com/planet-earth/r <-- shared technical overview article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #groundwater #waterresources #management #planning #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #depletion #pumping #overpumping #climatechange #extremeweather #droughts #watershortage #waterstorage #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #earthobservation #satellite #spatiotemporal #GRACE #GRACEFO #model #modeling #sustainable #extraction #research

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DoomsdaysCW

#PlanetaryWaves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950, study finds

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 4:51 PM EDT, June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "#ClimateChange has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer #HeatWaves, #Droughts and #floods, a new study says.

"In the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer, but now it is getting about three per summer, according to a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave, the study said.

" 'If you’re trying to visualize the planetary waves in the northern hemisphere, the easiest way to visualize them is on the weather map to look at the waviness in the jet stream as depicted on the weather map,' said study co-author Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist.

"Planetary waves flow across Earth all the time, but sometimes they get amplified, becoming stronger, and the jet stream gets wavier with bigger hills and valleys, Mann said. It’s called quasi-resonant amplification or QRA."

apnews.com/article/extreme-wea

#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis
#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe
#BigOilAndGas #Degrowth
#Oiligarchy #Capitalism #ExtremeWeather

AP News · Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950A new study says climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years. And the research indicates that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heat waves, droughts and floods. Monday's study says that in the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer. But now it's getting about three each summer. Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave and wildfires, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave.
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