that movie is mostly bullshit and colors the conversation about this specific topic whenever it is brought up

fucking hollywood

Curious what the chances are that humanity pulling water from aquifers all around the world an bringing it to the surface to evaporate an be rained down into the ocean is contributing to sea level rise. I'm not a scientist but it sounds like we're depleting quite a few aquifers around the world at a faster rate then they can refill

@shanepottermi We are, but most of the concern with that is land falling rather than it going to the sea

Very much a thing in CA

HIlariously so

Companies like Nestle bottling water and shipping around the world could be make big problems

some areas have already fallen more than 10 ft

my highscool was sinking into the ground liek an inch or 2 every year

if its not refilling these aquifers than its going somewhere.. lakes or the ocean. If 2/3rds of the surface area is ocean it would make sense that most of it is making its way to the oceans either from rain or lakes / rivers running into the ocean.

It is really interesting / annoying how CA seems to lead the entire environmental movement by the nose

Lots of activism around water conservation, which just isn't a big deal on the east coast

yeah in CA it must be really bad lol

Earth is 70% water but only 3% is freash, the water is freash water and most cities send rain water runoff to the ocean.

all those rich ppl watering theri lawns

@woodchuck00 only about 1% of that freshwater is accesible

YEET GREAT LAKES

i thought rich cali peeps were painting their dead grass green 😛

Also a week from now I'll be able to call my self an environmental scientist

a shitty low level one

but still one

Ganesh

hi hi

When I lived in CA last year we had a bunch of rain, GOV said drought is over, stop money for repairing and expanding water storage, the groundwater is almost gone, the states sends the overcapacity of water to the ocean.

@woodchuck00 Rather a lot of my training is in forestry, so when Trump's fire managment tweet went out I got into a lot of fights on reddit

I was unaware it was controversial that CA's bad fire management in the 50s-70s is the roots of most of their issues with fire

@H3llbender Trump is missing alot of key information but the forests could be better manged, even Jerry Brownm wantyed to bring logging industry back to aid with fire managment.

hey who was the guy that Tim referenced in the live stream he did?

luke grekowski? I can't find him

as a good news guy

Loggers have no interest in the parts that are at issue @woodchuck00

I mean, it might get in the way of going for the trees

but the scrub and small trees on the forest floor aren't really viable for harvest

You may know better then me but the forest in CA need fire to help the trees grow, thats how they evolved, but CA has been preventing the fires so burnable material builds up

CA has put themselves in a giant firey catch-22

Logging companies build service roads that act as prebuild fire lines whitch helpds firefighters.

They *can't* do controlled burns because the controlled burns run too hot now that it will actually kill the trees that would stand to benefir

They *can't* leave it alone because it is a giant tinderbox

80% of the firefighters out there are clearing brush by hand

and bulldozer

@Timcast I've moved my subscription over, thanks for setting up the option.