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I visited Slab City and the Salton sea with my family on a day trip from LA. It was a memorable experience, and I would recommend to anyone who is interested. We were inspired by this travelog [0], the history of the area is a cautionary tale. [0] http://www.wanderingboozebag.com/salton-sea-road-trip-itiner...
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Nonsense, I grew up in the Middle East and it was regularly above 120F during the summer. Just wear a hat and make sure you have water. You’re making it sound like you immediately die.
I don't know exactly where you grew up, but if you factor in humidity the temperature in Riyadh is substantially lower than where I live in Texas. Numerically it's higher, but the low humidity makes it possible to sweat.
> The California Energy Commission estimates the sea [Salton Sea] might produce 600k metric tons of lithium carbonate per year. > The land under the lake is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government – mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. Should be interest…
I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the US government deciding that a valuable resource is inconveniently located on Native American land.
Nevermind the number. It is "All of them". This is not bombastic or exaggeration, it is simple truth.
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Good luck getting a LAX-DAG pressure gradient strong enough to do that.
The way weather is changing, you just might get to see that happen in about 10 years. If it does happen, expect it to occur during the winter time.
I visited Slab City and the Salton sea with my family on a day trip from LA. It was a memorable experience, and I would recommend to anyone who is interested. We were inspired by this travelog [0], the history of the area is a cautionary tale. [0] http://www.wanderingboozebag.com/salton-sea-road-trip-itiner...
The Bourdain visit to Slab City and the Salton Sea from No Reservations is here: https://youtu.be/pCRlWY0qL-0
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I read hyperbole like this all the time and it shocks me. Have you never been outside in 120F+ temps? I have spent many years of my life in those temps (Australia, all around Africa). Shade and plenty of drinking water and it's completely fine. Millions of people live their lives in those temps with no AC, no fridge, etc. I hear the same thing about the cold like "Frostbite in a matter of seconds past -30F". I used t…
Where in Australia did you live? No where I can find “regularly” hits above 48.9 degrees Celsius. The reference, the hottest recorded temperature in Australia is 123.2F (50.7c). Yes it gets into the 40s pretty regularly in a lot of places in Australia. But even 45c in a heatwave is very different to “regularly” living with temperatures close to 50c.
I don't think I've ever experienced 120F (~49c). I guess I wouldn't be worried about dying personally, but I definitely wouldn't want to be outside for too long. Older people though? That probably is potentially fatal.
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I’m not sure the drying of a man-made lake quite qualifies as an environmental disaster, though the smell certainly isn’t pleasant. But it’s definitely not the largest environmental in California. That would be the destruction of millions of acres of wetlands in the Central Valley from the dry and vanished Tulare Lake northward. Next is the desertifying low Sierra as forests are replaced by chaparral and grasslands s…
It isn't really a man made lake. It's a lake in a watershed that has been substantially altered. The lake wouldn't be there naturally in the form that it started off in after the accident. But none of the water would be diverted if it was not for human intervention. It would have followed the natural course of things.
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The way weather is changing, you just might get to see that happen in about 10 years. If it does happen, expect it to occur during the winter time.
How? You push the dust 10000 ft up over the San Jacinto range against the prevailing winds… somehow? You don’t even get a downslope enhancement because the Salton Sea is lower than the Pacific. Or somehow the wind curves through the San Gorgonio Pass and back around to Los Angeles? You and what pressure gradient? I’m a meteorologist, so if you know the dynamics here, please explain.
In “the day after tomorrow”, the air gets so cold that jet fuel freezes the moment the helicopter flies into the cold air.
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I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the US government deciding that a valuable resource is inconveniently located on Native American land.
How many treaties with the Native Americans has the government has broken? Nevermind the number. It is "All of them". This is not bombastic or exaggeration, it is simple truth.