California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
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#3I don’t live in California but my state is experiencing the same. I love to garden, but summer has just become the dry season here, so it is pointless. You can irrigate, but the vapor-pressure deficit (VPD) when it is 100 degrees and 20% humidity makes plant growth almost impossible for anything but cacti. I think I’ll just have to move.
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#4"If you have a string of dry years, that sets you up for low runoff efficiency in the next year," Jones said. "It is going to take above average precipitation to get average runoff."
In the short-run, meanwhile, the drier earth can amplify heat waves like the recent record-breakers in the U.S. and Canada. "Droughts lead to drier grounds, which lead to higher temperatures. It's a vicious cycle," Di Liberto said.
I didn't really consider this aspect of the climate feedback loop prior to reading this article.
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#5Well, it won’t be not the first time that the center of civilization shifts due to climate change…
In Central Europe we are having rainy summers and mild temperatures. I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house…
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#6Well, it won’t be not the first time that the center of civilization shifts due to climate change… In Central Europe we are having rainy summers and mild temperatures. I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house…
> I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house…
Well, you're in luck. It won't just be Californians, though. You'll have new neighbors pouring in from all over the world, cramming up in the liveable spaces that'll be left. It's gonna be cozy. And who knows, maybe you'll even have to spare a room or two of your house for them? Just as Germans had to when the refugees from the former eastern territories poured in after WW2.
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#7I don’t live in California but my state is experiencing the same. I love to garden, but summer has just become the dry season here, so it is pointless. You can irrigate, but the vapor-pressure deficit (VPD) when it is 100 degrees and 20% humidity makes plant growth almost impossible for anything but cacti. I think I’ll just have to move. https://www.dimluxlighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Le...
Try using a biodegradable hydrogel at the base of the roots.
Re: California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
#8Well, it won’t be not the first time that the center of civilization shifts due to climate change… In Central Europe we are having rainy summers and mild temperatures. I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house…
> I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house… Well, you're in luck. It won't just be Californians, though. You'll have new neighbors pouring in from all over the world, cramming up in the liveable spaces that'll be left. It's gonna be cozy. And who knows, maybe you'll even have to spare a room or two of your house for them? Just as Germans had to when the refugees from the former eastern t…
I was thinking more about exchanging gardening tips and salads. But please come over there is a lot of space from Vistula River to Ural and beyond… (we are rapidly depopulating)
Just drop the doom and Millenarian attitude…
Re: California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being
#9Well, it won’t be not the first time that the center of civilization shifts due to climate change… In Central Europe we are having rainy summers and mild temperatures. I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house…
> I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house… Well, you're in luck. It won't just be Californians, though. You'll have new neighbors pouring in from all over the world, cramming up in the liveable spaces that'll be left. It's gonna be cozy. And who knows, maybe you'll even have to spare a room or two of your house for them? Just as Germans had to when the refugees from the former eastern t…
Doesn't sound likely. You will be able to settle tens of millions of refugees in Greenland, Siberia etc. Former frozen wasteland will become habitable. I don't think Europe or the U.S will volunteer to absorb tens of millions of refugees if there are other solutions.
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#10Kind of surreal to read that while living in SF where it’s constantly cold.