severe western drought

Primavera said:
And there it is, the classic duck and swerve! Why can't you answer the question you were asked without attempting to introduce a red herring? You are always boasting about how green and responsible California is yet when confronted with embarrassing facts you attempt to change the subject.
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California has much stricter laws on deforestation than
your country, Thailand

why aren't you complaining on this board about deforestation and environmental laws in Thailand where you choose to live?
 
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What can't you answer the question you were asked rather than performing a two step shuffle? If you can't answer then stop boasting about California energy stats.
 
Cypress said:
California has much stricter laws on deforestation than
your country, Thailand

why aren't you complaining on this board about deforestation and environmental laws in Thailand where you choose to live?
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We know that, which is why you had such terrible wildfires, more worried about the Spotted Owl than people being barbecued.
 
anatta said:
California's imports were the largest in the United States last year when 25 percent of California's total electricity supply was imported, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday.

Last year, California's net electricity imports were the largest in the country at 70.8 million megawatt-hours (MWh), followed by Ohio, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Tennessee, EIA data showed.

In California's case, the state's utilities partly own and import power from several power plants in Arizona and Utah. California's electricity imports also include hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest, mostly across high-voltage transmission lines from Oregon to the Los Angeles area.

This summer, amid the great West heatwave, the largest U.S. solar state, California, was grappling with power issues and struggling to keep its electricity grid stable as demand exceeds supply.

California energy consumers were warned of rolling outages as there was insufficient energy to meet the high demand during the heatwave in August. In California, where solar power supplies more than 20 percent of electricity as per the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), August's rolling outages were the worst such outages since the 2000-2001 energy crisis in the state.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-...s-The-Top-US-Net-Importer-Of-Electricity.html
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Soon the SDTC will no longer be able to import electricity. They've drained Lake Mead.
 
gemini104104 said:
You continue to be a fool at projecting global droughts on America. This includes to which major parts of the U.S gets above average rainfall per year. Perhaps with the possibly of states sharing water might alleviate the deluge on their acquirers and flooding, and without the need for desalination in drought areas:

North America: Great Drought in what is now the northwestern United States from 1276 to 1299; Dust Bowl in the central plains of the United States in the 1930s
Africa: Ethiopian famine in Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985
Europe: Dalton minimum from 1770 to 1840
Asia: Great Famine in India from 1876 to 1878 and North China famine from 1876 to 1879
Australia: Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia from 2001 to 2009"

https://www.britannica.com/story/cu...amine in Ethiopia,Australia from 2001 to 2009

And indeed, that is what we appear to be seeing across the world over the past few years. Here’s a look at seven extreme droughts that have occurred in the past decade:

Australia’s one-in-a-thousand-year drought
Australia’s “Millennium” drought began in 1995 and continued country-wide until late 2009. Reservoir levels fell precipitously, as did crop production and industrial water use. A number of cities, including Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, built desalination plants in an effort to partially drought-proof themselves, while other areas pursued grey water recycling projects. Between 2001 and 2012, the federal government provided $4.5 billion in assistance to drought-affected farmers and small businesses .

In 2010-11, following quickly on the heels of the drought, Australia experienced its worst flooding in half a century, as an area of Queensland larger than the size of France and Germany combined flooded, affecting 200,000 people and costing at least $10 billion.

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-tour-7-recent-droughts
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So....flooding is drought. Gotit.
 
Cypress said:
Incorrect definition.
Carbon is an element found in ubiquitous quantities throughout the universe not only in coal, oil, natural gas, but in rocks, minerals, gasses, or even in it's pure elemental form.
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It is both an element and is a fuel, called 'coal'.
 
Cypress said:
Incorrect definition.
Carbon is an element found in ubiquitous quantities throughout the universe not only in coal, oil, natural gas, but in rocks, minerals, gasses, or even in it's pure elemental form.
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It is both an element and is a fuel, called 'coal'.
So why are you worried about 'carbon emissions'??
 
Gondwanaland said:
The one Colorado and much of the West has been in for several years now. A tiny above average snowpack doesn't erase the years of below average snowpacks and precipitation. Colorado has been in 22 years of drought, one of the worst in centuries.
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Argument from randU fallacy. Colorado has many rivers and streams, and snowpack has been above average during several years. It also has experienced floods within 22 years. Flood is not drought.
 
Primavera said:
And there it is, the classic duck and swerve! Why can't you answer the question you were asked without attempting to introduce a red herring? You are always boasting about how green and responsible California is yet when confronted with embarrassing facts you attempt to change the subject.
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I don't think Cypress has EVER answered a question put to him. He has always evaded.
 
Cypress said:
California has much stricter laws on deforestation than
your country, Thailand

why aren't you complaining on this board about deforestation and environmental laws in Thailand where you choose to live?
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You mean the forests that are burning in the SDTC??
 
Into the Night said:
It is both an element and is a fuel, called 'coal'.
So why are you worried about 'carbon emissions'??
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Elemental carbon is not a fuel. That's why you can't burn diamond or graphite, which are made from elemental carbon.

The energy in fuel comes from breaking the molecular bonds between hydrogen and carbon, in the hydrocarbon molecules found in oil, propane, and coal.
 
Blackouts may threaten Calif. again this summer
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-faces-summer-blackouts-from-climate-extremes/
The risk is the highest in the early evening when solar power is no longer available. And September in particular could be a precarious month.
That prediction was based on an analysis of existing power supplies, new sources expected to come online and the potential for extreme events. Friday's presentation was the first to give an in-depth look at potential gaps between electricity supply and peak demand beyond this coming summer, with analyses that also cover the summers of 2023 through 2026.
 
Cypress said:
California has much stricter laws on deforestation than
your country, Thailand

why aren't you complaining on this board about deforestation and environmental laws in Thailand where you choose to live?
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Tommy is hiding from the King and doesn't dare say anything negative :laugh:
 
Into the Night said:
Argument from randU fallacy. Colorado has many rivers and streams, and snowpack has been above average during several years. It also has experienced floods within 22 years. Flood is not drought.
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It sounds like you have no grasp on what a drought is. Wow. (hint: you can have rivers and streams, and even floods, in a drought, dumbass)
 
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