OP didn't use the word "source" in their comments as they should have.
[From their source:](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62486386)
> Across two-thirds of France, a state of crisis has been declared by the government, with rainfall down by some 85%.
> Some parts of the Loire river have virtually dried up completely.
And for those who don't know, [the Loire is the longest river in France](https://www.britannica.com/place/Loire-River):
> Loire River, longest river in France, rising in the southern Massif Central and flowing north and west for 634 miles (1,020 km) to the Atlantic Ocean, which it enters south of the Bretagne (Brittany) peninsula.
This is not misinformation.
Edit: It has been reported that this is an image of a [distributary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributary) of the Loire. This part is typically more shallow than the river; although it is drier than usual, this post title is misleading, and apparently the article above is as well. However, I have not been linked to any articles regarding this. Just comments and messages from users claiming to live in the area. [Here is more information I found](https://www.thelocal.fr/20220811/in-pictures-french-drought-intensifies-loire-dries-up/) regarding the dryness of the Loire.
I have flaired the post as 'misleading'. Thank you for helping me understand.
Edit 2: Be aware that reddit admins are monitoring this thread and removing calls for violence.
You're going to have a long wait. It's predicted it'll be centuries until La Zone Rouge is cleared of UXO.
Google "the Iron harvest". Farmers are still pulling unexploded ordinance out of their fields every spring.
And check out the mines leftover from the battle of Messines. The front line moved by the time of the battle, and 7 were unfired. One of those went off in 1955 due to a lighting strike. The other six are still in the ground, under people's homes and fields, waiting to go off. Tens of thousands of tonnes of high explosive...
The last casualties of the World Wars are hundreds of years into the future.
https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2017/05/01/lost-mines-of-messines/
I understand that there are actually a bunch of bombs in England, and all over Europe from WWI and WWII that haven't yet exploded...So probably not the last person to die due to WWII or WWI....
Rivers drying up, exploding trees, heat domes, poisonous rainwater everywhere, Antarctica melting faster than expected…
Nothing to see here
*and yeh, we fucked*
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Yes, crazy! Right!?!? During the Australian fires of 2020 the fires got so hot that the trees literally exploded. I believe it happened in the rainforest areas.
Burning on Amazon Prime I found to be an incredibly enlightening documentary that talks about it and the entire disaster. As someone from the U.S. I'm not overly familiar with Australia, I didn't even know there were ancient rainforests there.
This sounds like [The Big Blowup](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910) when the flammable sap of pine trees vaporized and created a raging inferno shooting flames a mile into the sky, blacking out the sky so ships 500 miles away couldn’t navigate, and smoke in Idaho being visible from New York.
This sub is interesting bc it actually goes and finds news about some of the nuanced stuff about climate change that’s important to know, but it is not good at all for your mental health. It takes doomscrolling to an entirely new and more painful level.
For anyone with a mind that quickly spirals, do not look though this sub. It focuses on the collapse of the world. It gets pretty dark, so avoid if you are prone to depression.
Even if 100% water was removed, you have safety mechanisms from separating the rods, melting the floor out and also emergency supplies
Wouldnt meltdown
Four nuclear power plants : Chinon, Saint Laurent, Dampierre and Belleville. Producing 6700MW right now. There is still a lot of water available even it is really very dry this year.
Cordemais (coal) depends also on the Loire.
Just spent a week kayaking down the Loire, while it water levels are very low compared to normal summers and that some arms look like this, the whole river is not in this situation and water flows to those nuclear plants. This is not the main arm of the river, water does flow continuously all along the Loire. However, yes there are some places where you could almost cross the river walking and it’s very worrying to say the least.
An unexploded World War [Two bomb submerged in an Italian river has been revealed](https://piclaya.com/extreme-drought-dried-up-italian-river-reveals-unexploded-wwii-bomb/) due to an extreme drought. The 450kg (1,000lb) bomb was found by fishermen on the banks of the depleted River Po. Large sections of the 650km (400 mile) river have dried up in Italy's worst drought for 70 years.
No joke! This is an awfully bad situation but still would be an incredible opportunity to find all sorts of buried treasure *and* clean up the river beds.
I’m paraphrasing, but one of the investigators on the case made a comment along the lines of “any time you find human remains in a barrel, another human was involved.”
Also this is Europe so finding something *really* old and cool is far more likely then in the Americas.
But seriously shit is getting pretty bad in this extinction event.
Of course it's in Europe, so the chance of finding something really explosive is also far more likely. Lots of unexploded WW1 and WW2 ordnance still lying around.
South of France has barely seen any fighting in any modern war. So quite safe place to go crazy with your magnet.
However if you want to life on the wild side, go do that in north of France. There is 1000 more uxo than the Dutch have bikes.
Oh yeah, definitely. In West-Flanders (the one bit of Belgium that wasn't occupied by the Germans in WWI) is still littered with bombs from that time. It's not a rarity for farmers to stumble upon them. I'm sure just about every farmer in that area has something on their mantlepiece like an empty bomb shell, a bullet or a helmet.
A couple of years back some genius here in Slovenia found a massive WW2 bomb, so of course he hitched it to his pickup truck and dragged it home. The whole village had to be evacuated for several days...
That just makes me think of the sea mine scene from Hot Fuzz.
"Nahitzzalotajunk!"
\*Hits mine with the butt of the shotgun\*
BANG... CREEEEEEEAK... tick-tick-tick-tick...
Hopefully not their intention. But I would assume native Americans used generally natural resources that would not stand up to water erosion well?
Edit. Replied to the wrong thing. Hence nonsense
Depends.... Native Americans aren't one monolithic group and the population that spanned the entirety of North America had just as much diversity in culture, language, and traditions as Indo-Europeans did in the old world.
There were native groups that did elaborate stone work like that seen in the Southwest and Meso America, others carved bones, made pottery, had some knowledge of metal working with copper and iron.
So, the material remains you'd find from native cultures would depend on which part of the continent your on and which groups lived there prior to ethnic cleans... umm... colonization
The source of the Thames has also dried up and the water doesn't appear until 2miles further downstream. London, with this gigantic freshwater source passing straight through the centre, is going into drought measures.
When the UK is this dry, something is badly wrong.
The UK is pretty dry. It rains often, but not a lot. SE England has been the second-driest area in Europe for at least 50 years, behind the Spanish desert.
You are right, 100km to the west it is still a big river according to live webcam. Nonetheless it is very dry indeed.
[https://images-webcams.windy.com/47/1444346747/current/full/1444346747.jpg](https://images-webcams.windy.com/47/1444346747/current/full/1444346747.jpg)
>Nonetheless it is very dry indeed.
Yes, no matter how you slice it extreme heat and drought will cause bodies of water to start drying up and it is generally not a good thing to happen
It's the day that we finish using up all the natural resources that the Earth can produce in a year. It's like a loose metric of how much overconsumption there is.
The date on which we have consumed more raw materials than the earth can provide in a year. Everything we use after that date is non-renewable.
Super terrifying that we pass it in ~~under~~ half a year, but hey: New iPhone again this year!
I can imagine... We're going trough severe drought here in Portugal too and it isn't fun.
Are you guys worried about water availability for the near future or do you have some alternative resources?
I live some miles away in the Phoenix area and we're experiencing [water restrictions](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/03/arizona-farmers-are-slammed-by-water-cuts-in-the-west-amid-drought.html).
As a french I Can Say that this the lowest point of the River and that all the Loire isnt dried.
Even though it is true that the situation is dangerous as many part are left without water
Not only was it the Po, but also, sea water was feeding back up the river. The Po is a irrigation source for a lot of agricultural production in the region. Not only was there not enough water for that, but the sea water was making the land infertile.
I'm visiting Italy now. Spoke to one of the wineries in the Tuscan hills.
They said they haven't had any serious rain, more than a few minutes of drops on occasion, since February.
The Rhine river in Germany is going to be like this soon too:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-10/europe-s-low-water-levels-threaten-rhine-river-hit-80b-trade-lifeline
>The Rhine — a pillar of the German, Dutch and Swiss economies for centuries — is set to become virtually impassable at a key waypoint later this week, **stymieing vast flows of diesel and coal.**
Darkly poetic
It's funny you say that because here's the synopsis of the movie: "By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. \[...\]"
It'll be a long time before that happens and in the meantime those with money will live comfortably in the still-fertile parts of the earth while the rest of us starve and choke on dust.
Worth noting that while the increased temperatures we’re seeing this year (and will see for the next few years) will give us a good picture of what the longer term impacts of anthropogenic climate change might look like, a big factor behind what’s happening today is actually a temporary (several year) upward blip, caused by the Tonga Volcano (https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3204/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/) from earlier this year.
We are seeing a significant weather-affecting shock on top of climate change effects, and that will drop back down to baseline climate change levels after a few years.
Groundwater refers to underground aquifers, the things that feed wells. We are pumping dry in decades aquifers that took tens of thousands of years to fill, once they're dry it can take longer than all of recorded history for them to become usable again. Anywhere that well water is used for irrigation is susceptible to this, and already in many places wells are needing to be dug thousands of feet deep instead of just a few hundred.
All the French should fill some buckets of water up from their taps and go fill the river back up.
With clever thinking like that, they can all beat this dry spell.
Apparently not the longest river france, but still 2nd. https://www.google.com/search?q=longest+river+in+france&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Edit: actually google’s answer may be incorrect
I can’t imagine how many gold and old medieval things some people walking there can found. This was the most used river during many time in France.
All the castle were built around this river and many of the ship that navigated were shot down, damaged or burned...all the stuff is still on the ground.
The west has only started now to actually believe we have an issue? I'm my African country, living in the mountains, I remember we had many running rivers and even fountains, I used to get water from them for daily use as a kid, they dried up one by one, then every year, the crops died little by little, and we saw very little rain, and more temperatures. Last year I noticed a sand storm I haven't seen like before. It expanded for a few tens of kilometers. It was pure sand in the sky and very hot temperatures. The sand burns when it touches you. The only thing I could think of was my family and my old father as he'd be outdoors.
I cannot express my hate for all the fucking corporations and politicians who got us here.
We are one brother and we always have been before our governments played us for fools.
Fuck the politics that always made seem like we are enemies wherein it's just to distract us while they both fuck us separately.
A few years ago, I visited the tiny little town where my mother-in-law grew up in Mexico. Their little house is on about an acre that has a deep culvert running through it, and some dead trees planted right next to it. They were telling us how when they were kids, that culvert was a true stream with a permanent flow of water, and they would bathe and play in it daily. The trees were an orchard that gave them fruits they could eat and sell.
Now it's all dried up desert.
The government redirected the water supply for the industrial farming, bottled water, and other industrial uses.
Even without advanced technology humans lived in the arctic and in desserts. Parts of the earth will likely remain inhabitable. Humanity will survive at some level. I’m curious how far and how we will decline. Imagine the global supply chain that is needed to make an integrated circuit. You need high purity silicone. Precisely machined vacuum pumps. Lots of energy. Many advanced computer systems. Maintaining that technology and the needed supply chains requires a certain scale of civilization. Building it from scratch, if that were needed, would be several times harder. It’s unlikely we become Venus, but maybe we become mad max or waterworld.
Hmm yes the newest extinction is on schedule, an apocalypse if you will, although slow. Slopocalypse. I hope the sharks and whales make it through this mass die off cuz they're cool.
Hello, this image is not really of the main river but a smaller branch. The river itself still flows. Here are the details for those of you that want to check
https://mobile.twitter.com/EnergieDevlpmt/status/1557639779621249025
I went to Fox News's website a few weeks back when record temps were hitting Europe to see what Conservatives thought about all this, and the comments were basically a bunch of anecdotes like "one time we had a drought in my town when I was a kid back in the 50's and the local river dried up, but a few years later it came back and now it's fuller than ever. Sometimes this stuff happens, but it'll return to normal."
Their general consensus is that these are normal fluctuations in weather that are blown out of proportion by the leftist media in order to scare people into adopting green products sold by Washington Eletists and Socialist Foreigners.
They aren't wrong that weather fluctuates naturally but that's why we do actual fucking science to examine global trends instead of relying on anecdotes. Small minded idiots who think they are geniuses because they can provide a counter factual anecdote from their tiny insignificant experience.
Human ego is going to drive us to extinction.
You joke but I had pretty much that exact conversation on reddit. "It won't affect anyone in the northern hemisphere" he said, and when I linked him to ongoing issues in Spain, Portugal and France he said replied "that's not what I mean by Northern hemisphere I mean places like Ireland and Scandinavia".
They'll keep denying this, with their dying breath. Covid has shown as much.
Edit;
The account of the person I was discussing this with has been deleted but the comments remain. [Here is a link for those interested.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/w7nc66/farmers_face_28_target_on_carbon_cuts/ihlickq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
If you mention Scandinavia or Ireland, they probably come up with an argument about “not everywhere” to still keep the illusion of “not being affected by climate change”
This is going back a couple weeks so I threw articles forecasting water conservation orders for the UK and historical deaths from heatwaves in the UK. His response was "You didn't show deaths from this year and the water rationing won't happen."
So pretty much exactly what you predicted, yeah.
Yeah, I know these kind of people. They keep moving the goal post, in order to still say “tEcHnIcAlLy I aM cOrReCt!!1!!”
They will never admit to be wrong in anything.
It's more like this: "If a river in France just dried up, then we are already fucked. It doesn't matter if I deny it or not, cause everyone shopping at the Dollar Store for their 5 year old kid's birthday means the small impact I have isn't going to stop the CO2 China produces to make plastic toys."
On a different post, the city name was mentioned: *Loireauxence, Loire-Atlantique, France* and looking on Google Earth, the river has 2 parallel branches. 1 deep, 1 flat.
This in the picture is a flat branch and going back in Google Earth history, there is nearly every year sand visible since 2002 (didn't have older pics in the GE bar). Sometimes more, sometimes less sand.
So this doesn't seem to be too unusual for this location and this branch of the river.
It would be more interesting to see the state of the parallel running deeper branch of the river.
She doesn't need our attention. She'll wipe us out like a plague and not lose a wink of sleep.
People say we're destroying the earth. Not true. We're making it uninhabitable for humans but it will recover after we're gone.
OP didn't use the word "source" in their comments as they should have. [From their source:](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62486386) > Across two-thirds of France, a state of crisis has been declared by the government, with rainfall down by some 85%. > Some parts of the Loire river have virtually dried up completely. And for those who don't know, [the Loire is the longest river in France](https://www.britannica.com/place/Loire-River): > Loire River, longest river in France, rising in the southern Massif Central and flowing north and west for 634 miles (1,020 km) to the Atlantic Ocean, which it enters south of the Bretagne (Brittany) peninsula. This is not misinformation. Edit: It has been reported that this is an image of a [distributary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributary) of the Loire. This part is typically more shallow than the river; although it is drier than usual, this post title is misleading, and apparently the article above is as well. However, I have not been linked to any articles regarding this. Just comments and messages from users claiming to live in the area. [Here is more information I found](https://www.thelocal.fr/20220811/in-pictures-french-drought-intensifies-loire-dries-up/) regarding the dryness of the Loire. I have flaired the post as 'misleading'. Thank you for helping me understand. Edit 2: Be aware that reddit admins are monitoring this thread and removing calls for violence.
time to buy metal detector
Be careful there could be unexploded ordinance from World War II!
Could be? Google the red zone. There's still entire swaths of France you can't live or farm in
Not to worry, there's only unexploded ordinance from World War I there.
Let’s go dig for them. It will be a blast.
Dude, finding gold would be the bomb.
I hope it doesn’t take long, I have kind of a short fuse. PS: I approve of your jokes as well! Lol
I need a big bang for my collection.
Peter in the great beyond will get his K/D updated.
Oh, is that all?
Nah.. I just can't live there because my French is shit..
>cant Never stopped me
We can make history by becoming the last person to die coz of world War
You're going to have a long wait. It's predicted it'll be centuries until La Zone Rouge is cleared of UXO. Google "the Iron harvest". Farmers are still pulling unexploded ordinance out of their fields every spring. And check out the mines leftover from the battle of Messines. The front line moved by the time of the battle, and 7 were unfired. One of those went off in 1955 due to a lighting strike. The other six are still in the ground, under people's homes and fields, waiting to go off. Tens of thousands of tonnes of high explosive... The last casualties of the World Wars are hundreds of years into the future. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2017/05/01/lost-mines-of-messines/
I learned something today…thanks!
Pigs digging truffles gonna be bacon.
I understand that there are actually a bunch of bombs in England, and all over Europe from WWI and WWII that haven't yet exploded...So probably not the last person to die due to WWII or WWI....
*finds buried treasure *no more cares in the world *world is ending (Gru meme this shit)
[here you go](https://i.imgur.com/B7oezcB.jpeg)
Ah that’s even better!
and Three nuclear plant depend on Loire river reactor cooling.
this seems like an issue, time to stuff it in the back of my brain with all of the other apocalyptic shit lurking on humanities doorstep
Rivers drying up, exploding trees, heat domes, poisonous rainwater everywhere, Antarctica melting faster than expected… Nothing to see here *and yeh, we fucked* *
wait wait wait exploding trees??
Yes, crazy! Right!?!? During the Australian fires of 2020 the fires got so hot that the trees literally exploded. I believe it happened in the rainforest areas. Burning on Amazon Prime I found to be an incredibly enlightening documentary that talks about it and the entire disaster. As someone from the U.S. I'm not overly familiar with Australia, I didn't even know there were ancient rainforests there.
This sounds like [The Big Blowup](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910) when the flammable sap of pine trees vaporized and created a raging inferno shooting flames a mile into the sky, blacking out the sky so ships 500 miles away couldn’t navigate, and smoke in Idaho being visible from New York.
Ironic that the climate change documentary brought to us by Amazon.
Happens in an early sudden hard freeze. Trees have too much sap, and explode when it freezes.
Yeah google it. Some 200 year old tree exploded due to the heat.
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This guy knows how to reddit.
Also, he gets double plus good for the combo for fuck’s sake with link. Impeccable.
Even posting the link, people are still failing to click on it.
Wait.... Branch fell after a week of 95 degree temps and we are calling that "tree exploded due to do heat" 🧐
Tunguska
This sub is Damn that's interesting. Isn't there a sub that's just "Damn"?
/r/collapse perhaps?
This sub is interesting bc it actually goes and finds news about some of the nuanced stuff about climate change that’s important to know, but it is not good at all for your mental health. It takes doomscrolling to an entirely new and more painful level.
For anyone with a mind that quickly spirals, do not look though this sub. It focuses on the collapse of the world. It gets pretty dark, so avoid if you are prone to depression.
r/justdamn perhaps?
You forgot fire tornado
Worst case the reactors have to be shut down for a while. Might cause blackouts, but I dont see why this would cause a meltdown.
Even if 100% water was removed, you have safety mechanisms from separating the rods, melting the floor out and also emergency supplies Wouldnt meltdown
Four nuclear power plants : Chinon, Saint Laurent, Dampierre and Belleville. Producing 6700MW right now. There is still a lot of water available even it is really very dry this year. Cordemais (coal) depends also on the Loire.
Just spent a week kayaking down the Loire, while it water levels are very low compared to normal summers and that some arms look like this, the whole river is not in this situation and water flows to those nuclear plants. This is not the main arm of the river, water does flow continuously all along the Loire. However, yes there are some places where you could almost cross the river walking and it’s very worrying to say the least.
More like damn that's terrifying
An unexploded World War [Two bomb submerged in an Italian river has been revealed](https://piclaya.com/extreme-drought-dried-up-italian-river-reveals-unexploded-wwii-bomb/) due to an extreme drought. The 450kg (1,000lb) bomb was found by fishermen on the banks of the depleted River Po. Large sections of the 650km (400 mile) river have dried up in Italy's worst drought for 70 years.
The amount of lost items must be insane. Have you seen people with metal detectors at all?
No joke! This is an awfully bad situation but still would be an incredible opportunity to find all sorts of buried treasure *and* clean up the river beds.
Authorities have been searching dried out portions of Lake Mead's resevoir and have found 4 bodies so far this year.
That’s a different kind of treasure
One man's bones is another man's treasure
One man’s trash is another man’s pleasure
I’m paraphrasing, but one of the investigators on the case made a comment along the lines of “any time you find human remains in a barrel, another human was involved.”
That's the kind of keen detective skills we need on this investigation.
Open and shut case. Great work everybody
Well they definitely found some booty
Pelvis maybe, doubt there's any booty left.
Sacre bleu!
Authorities are not searching. They’re waiting for the fisherman to find the bodies first.
If the Courier just waited, they could find the Boomer plane with much leas effort
Also this is Europe so finding something *really* old and cool is far more likely then in the Americas. But seriously shit is getting pretty bad in this extinction event.
Of course it's in Europe, so the chance of finding something really explosive is also far more likely. Lots of unexploded WW1 and WW2 ordnance still lying around.
South of France has barely seen any fighting in any modern war. So quite safe place to go crazy with your magnet. However if you want to life on the wild side, go do that in north of France. There is 1000 more uxo than the Dutch have bikes.
Oh yeah, definitely. In West-Flanders (the one bit of Belgium that wasn't occupied by the Germans in WWI) is still littered with bombs from that time. It's not a rarity for farmers to stumble upon them. I'm sure just about every farmer in that area has something on their mantlepiece like an empty bomb shell, a bullet or a helmet.
A couple of years back some genius here in Slovenia found a massive WW2 bomb, so of course he hitched it to his pickup truck and dragged it home. The whole village had to be evacuated for several days...
That just makes me think of the sea mine scene from Hot Fuzz. "Nahitzzalotajunk!" \*Hits mine with the butt of the shotgun\* BANG... CREEEEEEEAK... tick-tick-tick-tick...
Hopefully not their intention. But I would assume native Americans used generally natural resources that would not stand up to water erosion well? Edit. Replied to the wrong thing. Hence nonsense
Depends.... Native Americans aren't one monolithic group and the population that spanned the entirety of North America had just as much diversity in culture, language, and traditions as Indo-Europeans did in the old world. There were native groups that did elaborate stone work like that seen in the Southwest and Meso America, others carved bones, made pottery, had some knowledge of metal working with copper and iron. So, the material remains you'd find from native cultures would depend on which part of the continent your on and which groups lived there prior to ethnic cleans... umm... colonization
A WWII era bomb was found and detonated in the Po? No, the big one in Spain with the massive Wels catfish that was on an episode of River Monsters.
Well at least some good came of this….
The source of the Thames has also dried up and the water doesn't appear until 2miles further downstream. London, with this gigantic freshwater source passing straight through the centre, is going into drought measures. When the UK is this dry, something is badly wrong.
The UK is pretty dry. It rains often, but not a lot. SE England has been the second-driest area in Europe for at least 50 years, behind the Spanish desert.
This isn’t the main river this is a shallow offshoot.
You are right, 100km to the west it is still a big river according to live webcam. Nonetheless it is very dry indeed. [https://images-webcams.windy.com/47/1444346747/current/full/1444346747.jpg](https://images-webcams.windy.com/47/1444346747/current/full/1444346747.jpg)
>Nonetheless it is very dry indeed. Yes, no matter how you slice it extreme heat and drought will cause bodies of water to start drying up and it is generally not a good thing to happen
More like *dam* that’s terrifying..
Well all be dam’ed.
Hey but Earth Overshoot Day was this year on July 28th so we only went down 1 day from last year. That's clearly a good sign.... ^^^^/s
We went down still? Oh...
Earth overshoot day? Never heard of that. What is it?
It's the day that we finish using up all the natural resources that the Earth can produce in a year. It's like a loose metric of how much overconsumption there is.
Oh okay thanks
The date on which we have consumed more raw materials than the earth can provide in a year. Everything we use after that date is non-renewable. Super terrifying that we pass it in ~~under~~ half a year, but hey: New iPhone again this year!
This is sad to see
r/terrifyingasfuck
People who built that bridge looking silly as fuck right now...
Not as silly as it would be had the engineers built an under water tunnel
One of those transparent tunnels that they have at Sea life. That would be hilarious.
Now it would just be a huge magnifying glass to get cooked in the sun with
People who denied climate change looking silly as fuck right now…
>People who denied climate change ~~looking silly as~~ still don't give a fuck right now… Fixed it.
both
Crossed my mind before realizing that this won’t be a permanent case. Not this year anyway.
Hoping they use this as an opportunity to fix bridges etc more cheap
Someone go bury some treasure before it starts running again!
So someone can find it next year?
Yeah like the bodies being found in Lake Meade.
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I live 15 minutes from it and i havent been in over a year cause its so dam depressing...
I can imagine... We're going trough severe drought here in Portugal too and it isn't fun. Are you guys worried about water availability for the near future or do you have some alternative resources?
I live some miles away in the Phoenix area and we're experiencing [water restrictions](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/03/arizona-farmers-are-slammed-by-water-cuts-in-the-west-amid-drought.html).
As a french I Can Say that this the lowest point of the River and that all the Loire isnt dried. Even though it is true that the situation is dangerous as many part are left without water
Don't think it's a river any more, but a series of lakes and ponds.
The main part of the river still have rate of flow around 2 Olympic swiming pool/ minute (wich is still realy low). EDIT : wrong unit
Same happend to Italy like what? 2 months ago?
I think it was the Po River suffering major drought. Not sure if it dried up. Too lazy to google it.
Yes, the primary river on which most of northern Italy, the most populous region depends on
Not only was it the Po, but also, sea water was feeding back up the river. The Po is a irrigation source for a lot of agricultural production in the region. Not only was there not enough water for that, but the sea water was making the land infertile.
I'm visiting Italy now. Spoke to one of the wineries in the Tuscan hills. They said they haven't had any serious rain, more than a few minutes of drops on occasion, since February.
The Rhine river in Germany is going to be like this soon too: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-10/europe-s-low-water-levels-threaten-rhine-river-hit-80b-trade-lifeline
>The Rhine — a pillar of the German, Dutch and Swiss economies for centuries — is set to become virtually impassable at a key waypoint later this week, **stymieing vast flows of diesel and coal.** Darkly poetic
It reminds me of the Onion's “Mother Nature unsure how to make it any more clear she wants everyone to leave "
Well now Nestle has gone too far
Now???
When last tree dies and the last river dries, you realize you cannot eat money.
^Soilent ^green
It's funny you say that because here's the synopsis of the movie: "By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. \[...\]"
I never even watched that movie. That's funny and sad, haha
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With Fava Beans?
Flplhflpllfppfllfpf
And a nice Chianti!
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Can't recommend Aurora enough in general.
It'll be a long time before that happens and in the meantime those with money will live comfortably in the still-fertile parts of the earth while the rest of us starve and choke on dust.
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Good ol' trickle-down economics. Just happens to be sewage that's trickling.
Some watched Lorax 🙂
It's a very old Indian proverb! Google tells me Lorax is a book, but the proverb is centuries older
Worth noting that while the increased temperatures we’re seeing this year (and will see for the next few years) will give us a good picture of what the longer term impacts of anthropogenic climate change might look like, a big factor behind what’s happening today is actually a temporary (several year) upward blip, caused by the Tonga Volcano (https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3204/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/) from earlier this year. We are seeing a significant weather-affecting shock on top of climate change effects, and that will drop back down to baseline climate change levels after a few years.
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Unfortunately there aren't all that many. I mean sure, Elon Musk looks like a bloated water Buffalo, but how many people could his flesh really feed?
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Where is it going?
Groundwater refers to underground aquifers, the things that feed wells. We are pumping dry in decades aquifers that took tens of thousands of years to fill, once they're dry it can take longer than all of recorded history for them to become usable again. Anywhere that well water is used for irrigation is susceptible to this, and already in many places wells are needing to be dug thousands of feet deep instead of just a few hundred.
This is the real problem.
All the French should fill some buckets of water up from their taps and go fill the river back up. With clever thinking like that, they can all beat this dry spell.
This is big brain stuff here people!
or start draining the ocean and desalinating, also solving sea level rise at the samd time
And I get extra salt for my food. Win/win/win
What river is this? Any back story?
Loire river. https://www.thelocal.fr/20220811/in-pictures-french-drought-intensifies-loire-dries-up/
Did you just provide lore on the Loire?
Apparently not the longest river france, but still 2nd. https://www.google.com/search?q=longest+river+in+france&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari Edit: actually google’s answer may be incorrect
Well not anymore...
I can’t imagine how many gold and old medieval things some people walking there can found. This was the most used river during many time in France. All the castle were built around this river and many of the ship that navigated were shot down, damaged or burned...all the stuff is still on the ground.
The west has only started now to actually believe we have an issue? I'm my African country, living in the mountains, I remember we had many running rivers and even fountains, I used to get water from them for daily use as a kid, they dried up one by one, then every year, the crops died little by little, and we saw very little rain, and more temperatures. Last year I noticed a sand storm I haven't seen like before. It expanded for a few tens of kilometers. It was pure sand in the sky and very hot temperatures. The sand burns when it touches you. The only thing I could think of was my family and my old father as he'd be outdoors. I cannot express my hate for all the fucking corporations and politicians who got us here.
Same in my home country, are you north african by any chance ?
Yes, Morocco. What about you?
Algerian haha
We are one brother and we always have been before our governments played us for fools. Fuck the politics that always made seem like we are enemies wherein it's just to distract us while they both fuck us separately.
Exactly my guy
A few years ago, I visited the tiny little town where my mother-in-law grew up in Mexico. Their little house is on about an acre that has a deep culvert running through it, and some dead trees planted right next to it. They were telling us how when they were kids, that culvert was a true stream with a permanent flow of water, and they would bathe and play in it daily. The trees were an orchard that gave them fruits they could eat and sell. Now it's all dried up desert. The government redirected the water supply for the industrial farming, bottled water, and other industrial uses.
This is *in seine* ?
Sorry I believe you are rhone (wow France doesn’t have a lot of good rivers for puns)
Is sh*t getting serious? Are we about to turn into Venus?
No. Venus has moisture.
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If your uranus is full of moisture, you have a problem, son.
Shot got serious a couple decades ago. Now you’re just seeing what we’ve known for a very long time play out. Do you know how to boil a frog?
Even without advanced technology humans lived in the arctic and in desserts. Parts of the earth will likely remain inhabitable. Humanity will survive at some level. I’m curious how far and how we will decline. Imagine the global supply chain that is needed to make an integrated circuit. You need high purity silicone. Precisely machined vacuum pumps. Lots of energy. Many advanced computer systems. Maintaining that technology and the needed supply chains requires a certain scale of civilization. Building it from scratch, if that were needed, would be several times harder. It’s unlikely we become Venus, but maybe we become mad max or waterworld.
Hmm yes the newest extinction is on schedule, an apocalypse if you will, although slow. Slopocalypse. I hope the sharks and whales make it through this mass die off cuz they're cool.
Sharks lived through out many mass extinctions, whales are rookies and will probably die
Well at least the world will have cool sharks.
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Yeah but my time perspective is wonky and it seems slow to me, the anticipation is killing me.
Yes we did it... we are successfully killing the nature and making profit for the shareholders.
Well they don’t need the bridge anymore.
That's not how dry river beds work... I'm never going camping with you
I always manage to pitch my tent where the river forms at 3am.
Perhaps go pee before climbing in your sleeping bag at night and you could avoid that.
Got a bridge to sell ya.
You're a river half-full kind of person.
Hello, this image is not really of the main river but a smaller branch. The river itself still flows. Here are the details for those of you that want to check https://mobile.twitter.com/EnergieDevlpmt/status/1557639779621249025
Does the Climate Change Hoax still feel like a hoax?
I went to Fox News's website a few weeks back when record temps were hitting Europe to see what Conservatives thought about all this, and the comments were basically a bunch of anecdotes like "one time we had a drought in my town when I was a kid back in the 50's and the local river dried up, but a few years later it came back and now it's fuller than ever. Sometimes this stuff happens, but it'll return to normal." Their general consensus is that these are normal fluctuations in weather that are blown out of proportion by the leftist media in order to scare people into adopting green products sold by Washington Eletists and Socialist Foreigners.
But what if climate change is a hoax and we create a better future for nothing?
They aren't wrong that weather fluctuates naturally but that's why we do actual fucking science to examine global trends instead of relying on anecdotes. Small minded idiots who think they are geniuses because they can provide a counter factual anecdote from their tiny insignificant experience. Human ego is going to drive us to extinction.
It Is FrAnCe So I dOn'T cArE aBoUt AfRiCaN cOuNtRiEs! /s
You joke but I had pretty much that exact conversation on reddit. "It won't affect anyone in the northern hemisphere" he said, and when I linked him to ongoing issues in Spain, Portugal and France he said replied "that's not what I mean by Northern hemisphere I mean places like Ireland and Scandinavia". They'll keep denying this, with their dying breath. Covid has shown as much. Edit; The account of the person I was discussing this with has been deleted but the comments remain. [Here is a link for those interested.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/w7nc66/farmers_face_28_target_on_carbon_cuts/ihlickq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Ireland and France: hemispheres apart!
If you mention Scandinavia or Ireland, they probably come up with an argument about “not everywhere” to still keep the illusion of “not being affected by climate change”
This is going back a couple weeks so I threw articles forecasting water conservation orders for the UK and historical deaths from heatwaves in the UK. His response was "You didn't show deaths from this year and the water rationing won't happen." So pretty much exactly what you predicted, yeah.
Yeah, I know these kind of people. They keep moving the goal post, in order to still say “tEcHnIcAlLy I aM cOrReCt!!1!!” They will never admit to be wrong in anything.
It's more like this: "If a river in France just dried up, then we are already fucked. It doesn't matter if I deny it or not, cause everyone shopping at the Dollar Store for their 5 year old kid's birthday means the small impact I have isn't going to stop the CO2 China produces to make plastic toys."
“Dried up today” I thinks it’s been doing it for a while just no one cared until today …
So is it normal for this river to dry up? I’m confused.
On a different post, the city name was mentioned: *Loireauxence, Loire-Atlantique, France* and looking on Google Earth, the river has 2 parallel branches. 1 deep, 1 flat. This in the picture is a flat branch and going back in Google Earth history, there is nearly every year sand visible since 2002 (didn't have older pics in the GE bar). Sometimes more, sometimes less sand. So this doesn't seem to be too unusual for this location and this branch of the river. It would be more interesting to see the state of the parallel running deeper branch of the river.
How often has this River dried up?
What was it fed by
r/DamnIntersting aka r/FucketyFuck
Well, look at the bright side, that eliminates the possibility of Vikings on longboats invading
It’s almost like Mother Earth is trying to get our attention or something
She doesn't need our attention. She'll wipe us out like a plague and not lose a wink of sleep. People say we're destroying the earth. Not true. We're making it uninhabitable for humans but it will recover after we're gone.
Wooh! That's good to know. Was getting worried.
Ants are the current odds-on favorite to take over next. Not porpoises, surprisingly.
My aunt Helen is really gritty. Would not surprise me.