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sitchensis posted:yeah forecast calls for not one but two atmospheric river events to hit BC starting Thursday and going into the weekend loving rip
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Nov 23, 2021 16:30
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What is an "atmospheric river event"? Is it just fancy language for rain-driven river flooding? Are there any non-atmospheric river events? (apart from human river events of course, eg. see bottle river from previous pages)
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Nov 23, 2021 16:35
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A quick google indicates they are narrow streams of moisture in the upper atmosphere capable of carrying 15 times the volume of the Mississippi before they make rainfall. Massive invisible rivers in the sky bigger than anything on land.
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Nov 23, 2021 16:40
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i'll watch this every time it gets posted, and i'll never get tired of it
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Nov 23, 2021 17:50
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Some powerful atmospheric rivers are eventually going to coincide and do something like this to California (again):   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-N-HA9iS8 The biblical flood that will drown California posted:The state produces nearly all of the almonds, walnuts, and pistachios consumed domestically; 90 percent or more of the broccoli, carrots, garlic, celery, grapes, tangerines, plums, and artichokes; at least 75 percent of the cauliflower, apricots, lemons, strawberries, and raspberries; and more than 40 percent of the lettuce, cabbage, oranges, peaches, and peppers. rice and beans today, rice and beans tomorrow, rice and beans forever
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Nov 23, 2021 17:52
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goochtit posted:Some powerful atmospheric rivers are eventually going to coincide and do something like this to California (again): Legumes
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Nov 23, 2021 18:01
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Why does a dry state have so much agriculture that relies so heavily on water.
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Nov 23, 2021 18:20
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Marenghi posted:Why does a dry state have so much agriculture that relies so heavily on water. because the soils are so good that its worth building the infrastructure to suck up all the water and bring it to the good soil. also because it was the 50-70s and we wanted to build stuff and any excuse that would make someone money would do. we did the same stuff in washington, arizona, etc. they could plant less water intensive crops, but those arent as profitable and since we already built the 1,000 mile long straw...better start drinking
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Nov 23, 2021 18:25
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What is an "atmospheric river event"? Is it just fancy language for rain-driven river flooding? https://phys.org/news/2021-10-atmospheric-river-storms-costly-climate.html https://www.theprogress.com/news/atmospheric-rivers-the-new-hurricanes-rating-system-coming/ A River In The Sky: Why Atmospheric Rivers are a Growing Concern (2019)
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Nov 23, 2021 18:25
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Trabisnikof posted:they could plant less water intensive crops, but those arent as profitable and since we already built the 1,000 mile long straw...better start drinking the water rights system also provides no incentive whatsoever for the worst abusers to change practices progressive state!
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Nov 23, 2021 18:28
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Rime posted:https://phys.org/news/2021-10-atmospheric-river-storms-costly-climate.html I like that last link. "To the naked eye this ribbon may be no more than a sea of wispy clouds, disguising an atmospheric river that carries 25 Mississippi Rivers worth of water vapour – and it’s headed for B.C.’s south coast. When it collides with land, it will release tremendous rains that could last for a couple of days and trigger devastating landslides, floods, and fatal avalanches."
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Nov 23, 2021 18:33
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I just learned about atmospheric rivers last night while reading The Ministry for the Future. I'm only about halfway through but would recommend it to anyone interested in a cli-fi novel.
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Nov 23, 2021 18:40
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B B posted:I just learned about atmospheric rivers last night while reading The Ministry for the Future. I'm only about halfway through but would recommend it to anyone interested in a cli-fi novel. I learned about it like 45 years ago while reading Zelazney's Damnation Alley LOL
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Nov 23, 2021 18:43
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They tell me we can't shoot down hurricanes but atmospheric rivers sound like something we can definitely shoot just do some nuclear airbursts over the ocean to disrupt the flow but make sure the foreigners don't get our water
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Nov 23, 2021 18:48
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"clience fiction"
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Nov 23, 2021 18:49
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500 good dogs posted:"clience fiction" we already got a whole thread of it!
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Nov 23, 2021 18:52
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Nov 23, 2021 19:20
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Sushi The Kid posted:"To the naked eye this ribbon may be no more than a sea of wispy clouds, disguising an atmospheric river that carries 25 Mississippi Rivers worth of water vapour – and it’s headed for B.C.’s south coast. When it collides with land, it will release tremendous rains that could last for a couple of days and trigger devastating landslides, floods, and fatal avalanches." goochtit posted:also most of that land will be poisoned by a mix of “petroleum, mercury, asbestos, persistent organic pollutants, molds, and soil-borne or sewage-borne pathogens” plus other goodies 
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Nov 23, 2021 19:28
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that's the past the present is bigger and wetter 
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Nov 23, 2021 19:38
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Those just look wrong... fluid is supposed to go out of the penis.
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Nov 23, 2021 19:41
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Lol'in that the messaging on various social media from people who aren't Totally insane is already "This is just the common Pinapple Express renamed to be politically correct for so-called "climate change", nothing we haven't dealt with before." The cope will continue until the heat death of the universe. 
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Nov 23, 2021 19:51
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watch out California!!
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Nov 23, 2021 20:00
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if there is a big earthquake and a tsunami at the same time, does the tsunami wave merge with the sky river?
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Nov 23, 2021 20:06
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Pryor on Fire posted:if there is a big earthquake and a tsunami at the same time, does the tsunami wave merge with the sky river? When mother nature maxes out her limit break ya
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Nov 23, 2021 20:22
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Pryor on Fire posted:if there is a big earthquake and a tsunami at the same time, does the tsunami wave merge with the sky river? the tsunami just gets launched like going off a ramp in mario kart and levels a town 50 miles inland
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Nov 23, 2021 20:32
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1463226266279153669
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Nov 23, 2021 21:25
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at least it wasn't as bad as this year
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Nov 23, 2021 22:41
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:at least it wasn't as bad as next year
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Nov 23, 2021 22:53
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gonna lol when we hit the point ice loss records can't be broken any more because there isn't enough ice left
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Nov 23, 2021 22:54
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:gonna lol when we hit the point ice loss records can't be broken any more because there isn't enough ice left I love a problem that solves itself
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Nov 23, 2021 22:55
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well going from 1% normal ice levels to 2% normal ice levels is a 100% increase we can be excited about losing twenty of the last thirty tons of ice clinging to a desolate rock somewhere isn't a big deal. We've lost trillions of tons so 20 is nothing.
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Nov 23, 2021 22:58
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“it’s called greenland because that’s where all our fruits and vegetables are grown” - child in 2050
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Nov 23, 2021 23:05
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Nov 23, 2021 23:06
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Jel Shaker posted:“it’s called greenland because that’s where all our fruits and vegetables are grown” not sure why the desert island is called iceland though
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Nov 23, 2021 23:10
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:gonna lol when we hit the point ice loss records can't be broken any more because there isn't enough ice left peak ice is just a doomer fantasy, we have nothing to worry about. we can just make more ice out of all the water that's there
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Nov 23, 2021 23:17
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:gonna lol when we hit the point ice loss records can't be broken any more because there isn't enough ice left Antarctica has enough ice that won't be a problem for at least a couple decades.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:21
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ice melting is natural, it's only hyperbolic liberals telling you that it isn't Pay $2,000 for a drink outside of your carbon ration that has ice in it and watch it melt yourself.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:24
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Complications posted:Antarctica has enough ice that won't be a problem for at least a couple decades.  ?Ten+ years ago I was feeling masochistic so I tried reading a Crichton novel called State of Fear, not realizing it was largely somebody's anti-climate change screed. Their argument was all that the ice isn't melting at the south pole so global warming was fake, a Democratic attempt at a bloodless coup using environmental fears. I think that was Ann Coulter's main line of attack too, just ignore the north pole and claim that the fact that there's still ice at the south pole trumps the temperature rising in the north so it can be totally discredited.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:33
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goochtit posted:also most of that land will be poisoned by a mix of “petroleum, mercury, asbestos, persistent organic pollutants, molds, and soil-borne or sewage-borne pathogens” plus other goodies we're also depleting the aquifers and slowly salting the earth via irrigation we will destroy all that land somehow, don't worry 
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Nov 23, 2021 23:35
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petit choux posted:Is this Yeah, in light of recent findings that we're probably going over the tipping point of massive and rapid ice loss from there I figured a couple decades was probably the time frame on that headline.
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Nov 23, 2021 23:44
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