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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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Here's A Mind-Boggling Calculation For The Colorado River Basin (www.nationalparkstraveler.org)

submitted 3 years ago by drumdonuttea@kbin.social to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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New research concludes that the Colorado River Basin lost 10 trillion gallons of water, an amount roughly equivalent to the capacity of Lake Mead, to climate change from 2000-2021.

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