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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71180 on: Yesterday at 11:40:51 »
they forget the impacts on the soil, you know, what crops needs to grow in.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71181 on: Yesterday at 11:42:02 »
So how about that 'adapting'?

https://www.khao24.com/2025/06/bangkok-rain.html
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71182 on: Yesterday at 11:44:29 »
https://thaitimes.com/thailand-s-historic-floods-a-looming-challenge-as-climate-risks-intensify

And all those dams

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40055107
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71183 on: Yesterday at 11:48:38 »
But that's not even half of the story.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3076413/experts-sound-drought-warning-for-next-year

" Thailand is under threat from climate change, where extreme climate events are expected to intensify and increase in the coming decades.  "

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86826-x
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #71184 on: Yesterday at 11:50:01 »
https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/river-of-tears-how-chinese-dams-are-devastating-the-mekong/
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« Reply #71185 on: Yesterday at 11:55:18 »
There exist old and proven tricks to it, managing soils, known throughout Asia. Which will become ever so important once global warming really starts.

https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GSP/docs/WS_managinglivingsoils/Limtong_Thailand.pdf
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« Reply #71186 on: Yesterday at 12:04:11 »
But then you have those temperatures rising

https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/thailand/climate-data-projections
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« Reply #71187 on: Yesterday at 12:13:21 »
And, of course, what that rising temperature will mean in wetbulb temperatures. As they are what will kill.

Dew Pt.    77F  miserable
Rel. Humidity    75%

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/113416/2025/Historical-Weather-during-2025-in-Bangkok-Thailand

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/data-viz/heat-humidity-map/embed.html
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« Reply #71188 on: Yesterday at 12:18:34 »
Then we have the rest of it, more extreme storms, marine heatwaves, acidity accelerating, over fishing becoming a necessity etc etc.
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« Reply #71189 on: Yesterday at 12:18:55 »
That's what you're leaving to your kid
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« Reply #71190 on: Yesterday at 12:24:45 »
Antarctica's interior

2025          https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61919-3
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« Reply #71191 on: Yesterday at 12:28:09 »
https://www.theclimateadaptationcenter.org/2024/08/23/the-gulf-of-mexico-has-reached-alarmingly-high-temperatures/


Highest ever actually, As far as our record goes.
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« Reply #71192 on: Yesterday at 12:31:18 »
2025  https://www.chron.com/weather/article/sea-surface-temperatures-rise-along-gulf-mexico-20801002.php
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« Reply #71193 on: Yesterday at 12:33:05 »
" The Gulf is back in record territory, with Sea Surface Temps now the hottest they have been on record for this time of year. Its steriods for hurricanes."

https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/1964859713994240214
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« Reply #71194 on: Yesterday at 12:36:37 »
Mila 18

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-evacuation-order-triggers-panic-gaza-city-2025-09-09/
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« Reply #71195 on: Yesterday at 12:39:26 »
 damming

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/ethiopia-launches-africas-largest-hydroelectric-dam-2025-09-09/
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« Reply #71196 on: Yesterday at 12:41:59 »
I can't stand her any longer, maybe you can?

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/ethiopia-launches-africas-largest-hydroelectric-dam-2025-09-09/
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« Reply #71197 on: Yesterday at 12:43:19 »
profits

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-7ddfd2a3260a541fd9ffedddb44e34f4
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« Reply #71198 on: Yesterday at 17:29:47 »
Couldn't be clearer than this

" a mysterious, multimillion-year span "

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-survivors-spanned-globe-earth-biggest.html


presuming that is natures time scale.
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« Reply #71199 on: Yesterday at 17:33:13 »
However you turn it around it's not ours, but it is ours we're forcing upon nature, and this Earth system. So what do you think our chances are, of a surviving civilization under and after an extinction event.


Living in a scifi
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