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I had a similar observation this year. In 2015, I was in California, was doing some hiking on the weekends, and I found it very unnatural how all the grasses we
by lukaslalinsky 18d ago
I had a similar observation this year. In 2015, I was in California, was doing some hiking on the weekends, and I found it very unnatural how all the grasses were dry, trails dusty, on the hills/mountains. I came back to Slovakia, and I was happy to see the green grass. Fast-forward to 2026, and our grasses are equally dry and trails are equally dusty. Water management seems to be more important than ever, because this is only going to get worse. Maybe we need to build massive reservoirs, to retain the flood water somehow, if we want to keep living here in the next 100 years.
- bobthepanda 17d agoUnderground cisterns are generally the way to do it and even the Romans were building them
- zeristor 17d agoThe UK had a hugely wet start to the year, but that’s part of the pattern. More intense rain fall then dry spells. The high prolonged hot spells, with the wind can really make a lot of the land dry out. So many dead and dying Field Maples around
- bobthepanda 17d agoDon’t really know what that has to do with my comment
- ffsm8 17d agoMeh, almost nobody will want to live in most of Europe post AMOC collapse in 20-40 yrs
- epolanski 17d agoWhat's that?
- 0bytes 17d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin... See “stability” section
- silon42 17d agoIt might compensate for global warming... I think a lot will depend on whether there is rain or not.
- HPsquared 17d agoWarm oceans, as they are, would surely bring rain? Hence why the UK is so rainy. The ocean is warmer than the land, it's like warm water in a cold room, you get the moisture coming off it. If the ocean isn't warm any more, I reckon (as an amateur engineer not climatologist) that would reduce the rain we get.
- jakebol 17d agoThat is one part, the other part is that you would get more persistent high pressure blocking patterns over Europe due to reordered atmosphere circulation which will lead to more intense droughts. That is what happened this summer.
- jakebol 17d agoCurrent research is that it would get a lot drier than it is currently. Also the AMOC collapse process would play out over many decades (~50-100 years) it will not be a sudden event.
- VBprogrammer 17d agoI'm not sure if Clarkson's farm has much of a following outside of the UK. Last year they had several crops fail due to the drought over summer and honestly this year was far worse. I believe he may not have even bothered planting the normal cash crops, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. That said, the year before I think it was so wet early in the year that farmers really struggled to get crops in the ground. In areas like Valencia there are ancient irrigation systems and water rights controlled by water councils older than many countries. I wonder if the UK will need to do similar, irrigation ponds, flood control structures and canals to control the flow of water through the landscape.
- pwagland 17d agoIt definitely has a following. This is the challenge of extreme weather, it's either drought or floods, and wild swings from the one to the other. As a kid growing up in Australia, we heard many such stories, especially if the rains came on too suddenly, since then the ground can't absorb the water, and you get flash floods. As if being a farmer isn't already tough enough.
- phatfish 17d agoIt has more of a following outside the UK. We know what he is like.
- kakacik 17d agoMy friend that show is legendary. Not on the same watchers level as original Top Gear (who can surpass 300 million), but its extremely good and literally eye-opening to millions about woes and challenges of modern agriculture. I must admit I was utterly clueless before watching that show, what an eye opener. I hope Jeremy will be OK regarding his health, he is a national treasure. He used to mock global warming and its advocates but thats visibly thing of the past once he got off his high ego horse behind the wheel and proverbially smelled the grass/coffee out in the countryside.
- alistairSH 17d agoHe might be a treasure, but's he's also a prick. He has a long history of letting his on-screen persona leak into meatspace (or maybe it's the other way around) and that's not a good thing. Edit - since people seem to not believe me, at minimum, he punched his producer [1]. Which wasn't the first time he turned violent - he punched Piers Morgan [2] for letting Clarkson's extramarital affairs go public. Oh, he also had poorly concealed extra-marital affairs. 1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35648682 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35648682 2 - https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-reveals-truth-behind-36092623 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-rev...
- Melatonic 17d agoCalifornia was also in a super drought at that time
- scoofy 17d agoCalifornia is naturally a desert. It is only unnaturally green and lush.
- NewJazz 17d agoWell, parts of it are naturally a desert. But plenty of forest and wetlands too. In fact there were even more wetlands before we channelized many of the rivers.
- pvaldes 17d agoA desert with the tallest trees in the planet.
- scoofy 17d agoTrees that evolved to survive wildfires because of the near year-long dry periods.
- MomsAVoxell 17d agoA state with a diversity of environments. Southern California, dry and dusty. Northern California, green and vibrant.
- rafram 16d agoNorthern California is dusty too. But green!
- SJC_Hacker 17d agoCalifornia is a big state. The only true deserts are in the south east part of the state
- scoofy 12d agoThis is not correct. LA gets its water from hundred of miles away. So does the Bay Area. So does the central valley.
- MetroWind 16d agoWell, California is like that naturally. It's green only in the winter.