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Cape Town to run out of water in 90 days

notaclue

notaclue

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It will be a landmark. The first major city to run dry.

"Cape Town, South Africa is in crisis mode right out of a Mad Max movie. Given current water consumption, the city has approximately 90 days until it runs out of water. The city recently pushed forward what they call Day Zero, where the city will be forced to shut off water supplies to all but essential consumers, such as hospitals. This would mark the first major city in the world to run out of water, a result of a prolonged 3-year drought." https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevor...cape-town-run-out-water-90-days/#7ee881455414

Plus from the UN yesterday: "18 January 2018 – The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace last year, with the United Nations weather agency warning Thursday that continued pressure on the Arctic in 2017 will have “profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world.”
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“We are getting dangerously close to the limit of the 2°C temperature rise set out in the Paris Agreement and the desired goal of 1.5° will be even more difficult to maintain under present levels of greenhouse gas emissions,” he underscored.
Recording the same global average temperatures, 2017 and 2015 were virtually indistinguishable because the difference is less than one hundredth of a degree, which is less than the statistical margin of error.
“Seventeen of the 18 warmest years on record have all been during this century, and the degree of warming during the past three years has been exceptional,” Mr. Taalas pointed out, stressing: “Arctic warmth has been especially pronounced and this will have profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world.” " http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58442#.WmHlYmwiEdU

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Scientists at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pegged 2017 as the third warmest year on record, based on actual temperature readings that date to 1880.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2671/long-term-warming-trend-continued-in-2017-nasa-noaa/

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Not much -- well, any -- dark blue on the map above but a fair bit of dark red.


Joe
 
Malthus was right, but two centuries early.

And when we develop large scale desalination we'll produce even more green-house gases. The crunch was going to be a century away. I’d give it less than fifteen years before millions and then billions of humans are dying from famine, and human extinction will follow in the next decade or two.

BUT the planet will survive.

Enjoy your remaining life as there is no future of any kind for the next generation.

ATB from George
 
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It is good that it gets talked about here at least. Which politicians dare bring it up? We need the little bastards to pay our pensions. Keep breeding, you plebs.
 
^There has to be a clever pun in there on it all being relative/involving relativity etc, but after several decent gins this evening, it certainly won't be me :)
 
richgilb said:
Also over-reproducing. If we can get rid of all religions except Buddhism the world population will start shrinking.
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Most religions are not like Catholics and don't insist on over populating the place. It is poverty, lack of female education and lack of an effective pension system that drives large families.
Look at Singapore where the three main religious groups are all having less than two children on average
 
Has nothing to do with religion, it's good old fashioned odds.

In poor countries health care is shite so the more kids you have the greater the chance of continuation.
 
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