hanimmal
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I don't know anything about this, so I found something that looks like what you are talking about.
I don't know enough about this to know why people are dedicating their lives to it think it is a good idea, or to know if it is a scam, but I was mostly excited about the $250 billion going to desalination.https://water.ca.gov/News/Blog/2020/Nov-2020/Delta-Conveyance-Project-and-Climate-Change
The conversation was moderated by Patricia Clark, Associate Governmental Program Analyst in the Delta Conveyance Office. Watch the full interview.
Let’s start with the basics. Mike, what is climate change?
Michael Anderson: Climate change, as we’re experiencing, is a warming planet. Temperatures are getting warmer and we see this in our data of annual average temperatures, each year of late being in the warmest edge of the distribution of temperatures we’ve recorded since 1895. This is caused by the increase in greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere, and they work much like a greenhouse does to keep your plants warm. It lets sunlight in but doesn’t let the heat escape.
What are some of California’s unique climate characteristics?
MA: California is located in a fantastic place on the planet. We occupy 75 percent of the Pacific Coast of the lower 48 states. We have a fantastic range of rainfall totals from the southeast deserts, which get on average of less than five inches a year, to the temperate rainforests of the north coast, which can get over 120 inches a year.
Year to year we experience more variability in our precipitation total outcomes than anywhere else in the lower 48 states. California's topography plays an important role. We have weather systems that come off the Pacific Ocean and include atmospheric rivers, or narrow bands of water vapor, that get pushed up against the mountains, leading to heavy precipitation in particular locations.
As the world gets warmer, we actually see a change in that distribution of rain and snow. We see snow falling at a higher elevation, which then builds up our seasonal snowpack as limited to a smaller area of the mountains. This changes the way runoff happens to where we have more of the runoff from the rainstorms during the storm event itself, creating a flood hazard, potentially, and leaving less to run off in the spring [for] use in the dry summers.
The other aspect of that is that as that wet season is limited more to the wettest storms, we find that the rainiest days get wetter with more dry days in between and this will lead to a longer dry season with higher temperatures bringing more heat, drying out the landscape even more.
John Andrew: The challenge confronting water managers in California is more uncertainty, and the natural response is a portfolio of approaches. The governor has, as you know, a Water Resilience Portfolio, and the Delta Conveyance is one of the key parts of that portfolio to respond to climate change.
What is the major takeaway for DWR regarding how it manages water resources for California?
JA: I think the major takeaway is that a fundamental tactic in response to climate change is flexibility. The conditions that Mike described, are going to lead again to more uncertainty of when water shows up and when it's going to be there, what its quality is going to be, how it's going to interact with ecosystems and habitat. The ability to move water when water is available is going to be an incredibly valuable option for the state, whether that's to move water directly to users, move it into storage, either above ground or to recharge many of our great aquifers around the state.
If we can figure out how to safely deliver unlimited amounts of clean potable water to the entire western United States (without pollution (so lots of solar/slow clean methods)), there is not think of anything negative that I can think of (that is not bullshit ) that would be a good reason not to help heal our planets soil and biodiversity to help undo the damage we have done over the last couple hundred years burning and chopping everything we could. And all life requires water.
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And if we can figure out how to do this here, where we live, we can help export clean water anywhere.
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