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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 days ago

Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future

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Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future

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Cities have the best chance of reducing water use when people actively participate in water conservation, but even that might not be enough in the future.
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    There’s a lot of ways to incorporate things that would naturally live in those environments.

    Shameless plug for !nolawns@slrpnk.net

    Edit to add a Garden design for Tuscon and also one for Las Cruces. The goal isn’t necessarily water conservation but, it generally is trying to use natives.

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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