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Plus, of special interest to Vancouver, the entire Ringsted is built in the Rhine's delta. Humans have plenty of knowledge of what it takes to convert deltaic wetland wastelands into arable land. I would also augur that water issues become increasingly important in Southwestern and Southern politics as these regions become increasingly arid; they are unimportant in the humid Northeast and Midwest. |
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You're saying you're expecting climate change to turn the dark blue and cyan blue areas of the South into arid zones somehow?!? https://www.climatesource.com/images/ppt_ann.gif |
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With the Gulf of Mexico there I don't think we can ever expect any part of the eastern half of the US to become anything resembling "dry." Warm, yes. Dry, probably not. Even if it became a little dryer it would still be pretty wet.
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In fact, many areas of the South would actually become more desirable if they were slightly less wet.
In the arid Southwest, it's the opposite. So it's absolutely ridiculous to lump all cases of "Region X might become somewhat drier" together, in terms of their effect on where people might want to live. |
I know this has gotten way OT, but I recently went to a JPL/NASA lecture @ CalTech that discussed how climate change has caused changes in clouds and is pushing the tropics north. Potentially up to 10° north of current.
So they predict an increase in clouds and rainfall anywhere south of 33° (San Diego/Dallas/Charlestown), while a decrease in clouds and rainfall between 33° and 53° (south of Hudson Bay, Canada). |
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Oh hell, here's an article with some of that. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...ake-union.html |
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"anywhere south of 33°" seems a bit too broad a prediction... (They might well be right, of course. But it might be a general statement, as well; maybe they never intended that statement to apply to interior SoCal and SW AZ, areas dry as bone.) |
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Believe it or not I think it's actually considerable cheaper to be located in SF. Real estate is so fucked up here.
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Your second map actually proves my point, unless you believe that places like Prince Rupert BC and Thunder Bay will have water supply problems because they're purple, while a place like the Eastern Sahara Desert or the southeastern interior of Saudi Arabia won't because they're dark blue.
What matters isn't relative change, but rather the absolute level of water availability in the future. Plus, we can just get it from the oceans. In a very sunny place like Los Angeles, power will eventually be basically "free" at some point, so even if desalinization plants are energy guzzlers, it won't be a big deal. |
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