$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S farmers fear the return of the Dust Bowl
For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry
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The Grapes of Wrath 2.0
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The Grapes of Wrath 2.0
by crude_intentions » Mon 07 Mar 2011, 18:30:44
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/8359076/US-farmers-fear-the-return-of-the-Dust-Bowl.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he irrigated Plains grow 20 per cent of American grain and corn (maize), and America's 'industrial' agriculture dominates international markets. A collapse of those markets would lead to starvation in Africa and anywhere else where a meal depends on cheap American exports. 'The Ogallala supply is going to run out and the Plains will become uneconomical to farm,' Brauer says. 'That is beyond reasonable argument. Our goal now is to engineer a soft landing. That's all we can do.'
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Re: The Grapes of Wrath 2.0
by scas » Mon 07 Mar 2011, 18:57:40
Groundwater is depleting, glaciers are melting, rivers and lakes are drying and deserts are extending. How will we manage this? Well, with a runaway methane condition we're likely to see the pictured conditions a lot sooner. But I figure it won't be an issue. Notice how there's so much rain at the top? Gravity will make all that water flood downwards and irrigate the dry areas. Problem solved.
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Re: The Grapes of Wrath 2.0
by nobodypanic » Mon 07 Mar 2011, 19:14:25
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', ' ') Notice how there's so much rain at the top? Gravity will make all that water flood downwards and irrigate the dry areas. Problem solved.
you're kidding, right?
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Re: The Grapes of Wrath 2.0
by Livewire713 » Mon 07 Mar 2011, 19:29:58
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', '[')img]http://www2.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/news/2010/2090-2099wOceanLabels_0.jpg[/img]
Groundwater is depleting, glaciers are melting, rivers and lakes are drying and deserts are extending. How will we manage this? Well, with a runaway methane condition we're likely to see the pictured conditions a lot sooner. But I figure it won't be an issue. Notice how there's so much rain at the top? Gravity will make all that water flood downwards and irrigate the dry areas. Problem solved.
Groundwater is depleting, glaciers are melting, rivers and lakes are drying and deserts are extending. How will we manage this? Well, with a runaway methane condition we're likely to see the pictured conditions a lot sooner. But I figure it won't be an issue. Notice how there's so much rain at the top? Gravity will make all that water flood downwards and irrigate the dry areas. Problem solved.
In the picture there's still ice on Greenland! Hope lives!!
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