Posted on 10/19/2024 11:37:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report.
Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused climate crisis to put “unprecedented stress” on the global water cycle, said the report published Wednesday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts.
The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground ....
Disruptions to the water cycle are already causing suffering. Nearly 3 billion people face water scarcity. Crops are shriveling and cities are sinking as the groundwater beneath them dries out.
The consequences will be even more catastrophic without urgent action. The water crisis threatens more than 50% of global food production and risks shaving an average of 8% off countries’ GDPs by 2050, with much higher losses of up to 15% projected in low-income countries, the report found.
“For the first time in human history, we are pushing the global water cycle out of balance,” ....
The report differentiates between “blue water,” the liquid water in lakes, rivers and aquifers, and “green water,” the moisture stored in soils and plants.
While the supply of green water has long been overlooked, it is just as important to the water cycle, the report says, as it returns to the atmosphere when plants release water vapor, generating about half of all rainfall over land.
Disruptions to the water cycle are “deeply intertwined” with climate change, the report found.
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Hey, if you can’t believe “a group of international leaders and experts” who can you believe?
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CNN never stops pimping panic over anything next snail shortage ensuing.....................................
More utter nonsense from the climate cultists
We must elect Kamala and fix the problem. She will get the oceans flowing again.
H.U.M.A.N. H.I.S.T.O.R.Y! Not a very long time. Even less for “recorded” history.
It’s your fault for wearing polyester clothes made from petroleum. And driving your SUV. Fess up!
Fools.
But we've only been able to measure water movement for a few hundred years...
-PJ
Only world socialism will restore the balance, Comrades!
How lucky for us that the “ Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts” discovered the problem just weeks before the election when we were quite likely going to elect Trump and add to the global disaster.
Experts are once again working hard to increase the “have nots” throughout the globe.
This mght explain why I have been feeling out of sorts of late.
The “experts” in this case may very well have a vested interest in the study. Let me guess their solution? Pour $trillions more into so called green energy, and regulate all forms of water collection and consumption, like taxing the rain.
I have nearly forgotten what it’s like to wash my hands in warm water from all the super low flow aerators in faucets these days. I called the manufacturer for a higher flow option. Their response, “Sorry. We don’t make those.”
>> said... a group of international leaders and experts.
Oh, okay, they’re “experts”. I automatically trust them, no thinking required. What time does the game start?
>> The consequences will be even more catastrophic without urgent action
I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that the “urgent action” will include turning over large amounts of my money and freedom to those experts...???
“ the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts”
Oooh…someone got a government grant from the trillions that Biden/Harris printed up and threw out to the four winds (waiting for their cut to come back).
Just saw video on Gab the other day where so know-it-all woman from the economic forum was saying that people are not believing the climate change scam anymore, but they would get on board with the new problem with the world’s water supplies.
... Who are yearning for an ocean full of "research grants," and promising ample kickbacks for the grantors.
"Climate change" is getting old, it's lost its fear potential. Here comes "Water horror." And it looks like CNN is happy to jump on the boat.
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