Just in case anyone is tempted to feel cheerful this morning, here's some more coverage of the drought that is affecting not just the US:-

Lovely. Heat waves, wild fires, tornadoes, and drought. There is no end in sight to all of this. Perhaps this is what Morrissey meant when he wrote Every Day Is Like Sunday?

Haha! Maybe, music_collector!

One prob with a drought like this is that severe water shortage is quite literally fatal, and could generate scenes of the mass movement of people that we usually associate with the famines of Africa or Dust Bowl America.

This country is blessed with tons of lakes and rivers. Many of them have severely low water levels. Our prairie provinces fight drought seemingly every year.

There's a wildlife reserve I have to drive through to get to my home town from here. There are a large number of lakes that dot the landscape. I'll bet that if I drove there now, those lakes would look more like creeks.

It's tragic. I could be wrong, but it seems like the only way to get out of this is for those in power to implement solutions that benefit everyone, not just themselves or their friends.

As an example, planned obsolescence is something that would benefit everyone. I just had our air conditioner replaced, after getting 17 years of use from the previous unit. Like the washer and dryer, I wouldn't be surprised if this new unit will need changing in ten years, or days after the warranty expires.

I continue to do my best to help out. There's always room for improvement on my part.

There's something reassuring about the wild immensity of Canada's Great North Woods, but yeah, not as badly as elsewhere, but it sounds like they are already feeling the pinch of global warming.

There definitely is no shortage of trees here. Our prime minister promised in 2015 to have two billion trees planted in order to fight global warming/climate change. He got ridiculed because a tiny fraction of those trees are planted. The promise gets ridiculed because people think we have enough trees (one can never have enough, especially in the city).

In my city, we have a problem with the emerald ash borer. My street has a number of them. They've all been chopped down, with very few replacements planted. After the derecho touched down in May, a rather large number of mature trees came tumbling down. We spend so much time cleaning up and recovering from those events, that we forget or don't have the time to plant new trees. It's a shame.

Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption :laughing:

I saw that headline. It reminds me of this one.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/group-c...gion-1.5999754

For our Nuclear Hawks:

Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?

Liberals endorse harm reduction when it comes to the opioid epidemic. Are they ready to take the same approach to climate change?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwP2mSZpe0Q