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Old 10-25-2011, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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Glaciers worldwide have decreased in size an average of 30% since the 1970's.

It was once thought that some river basins were receiving up to 80% of their water runoff from Glacial melt; those percentages have now been lowered, but the issue is far from resolved.

Reliable, year after year data is difficult to compile and the data is still not conclusive; but it appears glacial melt may be less important to river flow than previously hypothesized.

New Research Casts Doubt on Doomsday Water Shortage Predictions: Scientific American

http://arctic-council.org/filearchive/summary.pdf (broken link)



The issue may be more important in some regions relative to others so much more data is required to arrive at a consensus.


Impact of Climate Change on Himalayan Glaciers - YouTube
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Old 10-26-2011, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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The planet is in constant flux/change.

For example, 15,000 years ago this:



was a vast lake lined with boreal forest and huge glaciers.

Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I personally think Mastodon Flatulence and Paleohuman campfire CO2 caused the desertification of this area. It must have been quite the doomsday experience.
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Old 10-30-2011, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Tampa
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We are still facing a huge fresh water shortfall.

Even in this country, we are running low on water.

Look at the SW. They are nearing their limits, if they haven't pushed past them already. If they get one of those droughts that last for decades, they are boned.

They need to start throwing up a lot of de-sal plants (I recommend taking over beach estates of the wealthy thru eminent domain ). Or we will probably see a mass migration to the Northern parts of the country.

South is also having problems with water. I think Orlando gets cut off from more water next year.
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Old 10-30-2011, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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We are still facing a huge fresh water shortfall.

Even in this country, we are running low on water.

Look at the SW. They are nearing their limits, if they haven't pushed past them already. If they get one of those droughts that last for decades, they are boned.

They need to start throwing up a lot of de-sal plants (I recommend taking over beach estates of the wealthy thru eminent domain ). Or we will probably see a mass migration to the Northern parts of the country.

South is also having problems with water. I think Orlando gets cut off from more water next year.
We are already using Desalinisation plants in Tampa and in Sarasota we mainly use brackish, radioactive water from acquifers that needs reverse osmosis and other tertiary treatments.

Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant - Water Technology

I agree that with climate change the Southwest and Texas may soon be "toast" and their will be mass migration back to the Northeast.
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