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Midnight@slrpnk.net to Climate@slrpnk.net · 1 day ago

More than half of US faces worst drought in decades, says expert

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More than half of US faces worst drought in decades, says expert

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Midnight@slrpnk.net to Climate@slrpnk.net · 1 day ago
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More than 60% of the United States is experiencing drought conditions, with more than 20% in an extreme drought. Andrew Ellis, a climatologist at Virginia Tech said the current conditions are among the worst in decades because the combination of intensity and aerial coverage is rare. He explained why, who is most impacted, and when we can expect relief.
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  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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    Probably a good time to push a technology that uses all of our water

    • grandel@lemmy.ml
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      It will supposedly take all of our jobs so its total worth sacrificing all water for it.

  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world
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    The worst…so far!

  • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    Yup, it’s real. Have a place - some distance from where I live (in the northeast US) that I go to and get spring water.

    Went last autumn and lo, the spring was dry. First time EVER that I’ve seen that, and it’s a place that I’ve known of, and gone to, to get water for well over 40 years.

    Fuuuuuck.

    Shit’s starting to bite now and hopefullty the El Nino pattern this year will sort some of it and send us rain. We need it.

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    Here’s the projection going up to 2095:

    https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4270

    Black=desert. That’s the 100-year projection, a massive desert.

    • mittoken@feddit.dk
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      Εxpert’s wrong! They have no climate change in the U.S.!

      • Krusty@quokk.au
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        Similar projections exist for all major continents.

  • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
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    God, meanwhile my area is experiencing flooding. Yeah its crazy

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    its odd to be on the other side of the fence, because its the one year where it rained in California soo much, the typical california drought warnings didnt appear.

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    Is the world on a hundred year cycle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

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