Renaissance Robot posted:

with new oil drilling sites spinning up all the time, you'd think it'd be a no-brainer to just go get this oil that's already been pumped out and is just sitting there in a boat but what do I know

Unless posted:

new bangerrrrrr

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7108501329462660398

Tekne posted:

Tekne posted:

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i want a sequel so loving bad

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Don't worry Hubbert I'm sure it'll reach... a peak

Minera posted:

Biosphere Collapse: I'm a cringe half fail kind of guy

Car Hater posted:

I'd bet anything touching it grants you legal liability for cleaning up if anything happens in a way that drilling and pumping fresh do not

skooma512 posted:

If it's in international water then there are basically no rules.


Also just do the salvage op under some bullshit country's flag, paint on the side of your boat a ToS that says you're not liable for anything you do ever, and refers all cases to arbitration. Congrats, you are accountable to no one and nothing

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Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a Senate hearing in Washington that federal officials now believe protecting “critical levels” at the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require much larger reductions in water deliveries.
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“What has been a slow-motion train wreck for 20 years is accelerating, and the moment of reckoning is near,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which supplies the Las Vegas area.
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Avoiding “potentially catastrophic conditions,” Entsminger said, will require reductions that many water managers previously considered unattainable.
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“We can’t balance the structural deficit by evacuating cities. So we’re going to need to make our ability to grow the same amount of food with less water a priority,” Entsminger said. “Every user in every sector needs to be planning for how they’re going to take care of their share of the pain.”

Wakko posted:

Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’

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We can’t balance the structural deficit by evacuating cities.

some feel-good hump day news, friends. the unattainable will soon be unknown.

Oglethorpe posted:

so Touton is just throwing city-wide evacuations out there, unprompted?

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“We can’t balance the structural deficit by evacuating cities. So we’re going to need to make our ability to grow the same amount of food with less water a priority,” Entsminger said. “Every user in every sector needs to be planning for how they’re going to take care of their share of the pain.”

ELTON JOHN posted:

im so sad lmao

WaryWarren posted:

How is Rime perma'd but not Arf?

Pryor on Fire posted:

No it said they can't evacuate cities, farmers need to deal with less water instead

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

he ain't perma'd, just ate a lovely ban and didn't have his reversed like arf did

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

he ain't perma'd, just ate a lovely ban and didn't have his reversed like arf did

Cold on a Cob posted:

"the first world will be fine" i assure myself, as i close my eyes and ram all the aquifers in north america with my lovely drills until they run dry

Trabisnikof posted:

weird that politicians cared about climate change until COP 16 and then suddenly got a lot less interested

BrotherJayne posted:

Jesus christ, is this really going to be 25 loving pages of arf belching gibberish like a loving furnace stack?
Is this the future of this thread?

The one loving space for rational discussion, and there's a smelly dude in a greasy raincoat jerking it in the metaphysical corner.

gently caress my life

Car Hater posted:

*shrug* my posting didn't save the world, others are welcome to try

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

yeah this is the normal corner where we jerk off in non greasy raincoats to a fantasized mass climate included human death not the corner where people make fun of us for doing that

Homeless Friend posted:

you can thank azanoth lol

WaryWarren posted:

How is Rime perma'd but not Arf?

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

yeah this is the normal corner where we jerk off in non greasy raincoats to a fantasized mass climate included human death not the corner where people make fun of us for doing that

ArfJason posted:

There's an indisputable amount of cringe in the water.

Cold on a Cob posted:

"the first world will be fine" i assure myself, as i close my eyes and ram all the aquifers in north america with my lovely drills until they run dry

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“In many countries in Africa, it’s an election year or a year just before elections, and it’s kind of logical that people will see instability as a concern,” said Ichikowitz.

“But marry that with lack of access to water, marry that with a major concern around terrorism, and you’ve now got a demographic a group of people that are very jittery about the future of the continent,” he said.

“And the real bombshell out of the survey is that a very high percentage of the people in the response group are thinking about migration.”

About 60% of Africa’s population is younger than 25, and more than a third is aged between 15–34 years old. By 2100, Africa will have the world’s youngest population with a median age of 35.

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About 90 tonnes an hour of methane were being released from the mine in January, when the gas was first traced to its source, according to data from GHGSat, a commercial satellite monitoring company based in Canada. Sustained over the course of a year, this would produce enough natural gas to power 2.4m homes.

More recently, the mine appears to be leaking at a lower rate, of about a third of the highest rate recorded in January, but the leak is thought to have been active for at least six months before January’s survey.

The leak, which comes from the Raspadskaya mine in Kemerovo Oblast, the largest coalmine in Russia, is about 50% bigger than any other leak seen by GHGSat since it started its global satellite monitoring in 2016. The company believes it is bigger than any leak yet traced to a single source.