What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?

Fizz wrote:

fulltimedaniel wrote:


And keep in mind that just because it's raining in Bangkok and they are having one heck of a monsoon that rain does NOTHING for the drought in Rajasthan...or California Or Sub Saharan Africa.

Yes it is raining somewhere but not where it is needed most. But that certainly does not negate the FACT that there is a drought in another part of the world.

So?
What do you want to do about it?

This is the cycle of life on the planet.
Nothing new, it's been going on since the dawn of mankind.
The Sahara use to be green. Nature take from one and gives to the other, over and over again.

P.S.
Not taking a shot at you here.
Just getting tired of all these experts preaching doom and gloom. It's life, it happens.

Well for starters there are two different discussions going on here. one is about climate change the other about drought vs rain and those that don't beleive in the concept of "drought".

Climate change is a FACT. Our climate has been in change in cycles for millions of years.

What causes Climate Change is still being understood. Some of it is well known other parts are still being learned.

It is clear our climate is in rapid change at the moment. However since our global weather data only goes back a little over a hundred years on any kind of systematic, cooperative and regulated basis, it is unclear to me that what we are seeing is SOLELY man-made.

It does stand to reason and I think any thinking individual must admit that mans increased industrial activity over the past 150 years and the effluent that has put into our atmosphere must surely have consequences. Who could realistically argue otherwise?

I have seen the effects of climate change with my own eyes and in my lifetime. It is a fact. But too often the term Climate Change is often interpreted as being solely man-made. This is where the discussion goes off the rails.

Drought has not been proven to necessarily be related to Mans activity but surely we have our affect.

The earth is an integrated system. Our climate, the flora and fauna, man, all are like an intricate web. Affecting one part of the system will have effects on the others.

But there is also this. We tend to view problems like these in the moment, with no acknowledgement of the possible effects of future inventions, increased knowledge, or the effects of changed behaviour. We see these as linear issues with no bends in the road. And that is never the case.