Stuart Staniford is turning his customary care and attention to recent climate change drought projections, and the results are frightening, but also critically important. There's a summary of his posts on this subject here - read them all.
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Stuart Staniford is blogging. This is wonderful. As some of you may remember, Staniford disappeared from The Oil Drum a couple of years ago, after doing some astonishingly brilliant work on peak oil, biofuels and all sorts of stuff.
I have an enormous amount of respect for Stuart Staniford, who I think is one of the best minds working on our collective ecological crisis.
To make up for yesterday's frivolity, today I am going to be very, very serious, and deal with weighty serious things. There will be no levity - not from me, and certainly not from my very serious readers.
Again, Stuart Staniford runs the numbers and clarifies the analysis, and comes up with some really hideously bad possibilities.
Oh crap. Looks like it might be getting awfully crowded here in Scotland...
You see that green dot 2/3 the way to africa in a sou-westerly direction from west australia? it's MINE!!
While not located in CA, but in SE US, I've had ongoing concerns about the dwindling water resources that we all face and the tremendous impacts that we all will face in coming years. Thanks for another resource.