Sunday, September 23, 2018

Climate change increasingly "a reality of the present"

With Climate Change No Longer in the Future, Adaptation Speeds Up

In New York, designs are underway for a $203 million flip-up wall to protect Lower Manhattan from intensifying storm surges.

In China, companies building coal-fired power plants amid more frequent periods of drought are shifting to a more expensive technology that cools the plants’ equipment with less water.

In Bangladesh, rice farmers facing rising seawater are changing what they grow, some to more salt-tolerant varieties of the crop and others away from rice altogether, to shrimp.

All these shifts, experts familiar with them say, are in response to climate change.

Not long ago, climate change was seen as a threat for the future. Increasingly, it’s a reality of the present, a new normal spurring billions of dollars in annual spending as governments, companies and citizens scramble to adapt... (continues)

1 comment:

  1. Potable (drinkable) water:

    Related to the above statements about the availability of water, Netflix has a series titled “Explained” that covers a wide variety of topics from a somewhat documentary view. I say somewhat because it does not provide the level of research depth that I would like to see to back up claims. But it does have some interesting episodes. One of the latest is about water shortages and how some cities / communities are dealing with it. And how we are mismanaging water (like growing alfalfa in the desert).

    AT

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