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The Columbia River and global warming is another climate change issue to be aware of, according to scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They released a report a couple of Fridays ago noting that communities/cities that are relying on water from this water supply…

(and other large bodies of water) will “feel the heat”. USA Today ran a great article on this.

With rising temperatures, the quickening pace of melting glaciers and reduced supplies yet increase demands for water on these heavily-utilized water systems (both in USA and Canada) “there will be tensions among the users”. If we think it over, there is agriculture needing water for food crops, our industries and of course the growing population.

The Columbia River relys on snowmelt runoff. So what if there isn’t anymore snowmelt? Noted by the report: “These areas are particularly vulnerable”.

Here in Alberta there is a proposed mall/racetrack that’s been trying to get water in order to develop for almost a year. No one is willing to budge and they’ve already started moving the earth for this development.

It seems governments are becoming far more aware on the impacts of moving the water to where the people are vs. “moving” the people to where the water is. But then what will happen when the waters start to rise due to global warming and climate change?

The best answer that I’ve read is to take quick and decisive actions on reducing greenhouse gases so that the Columbia River and global warming don’t make headlines in our history books. And this is just another one of those “minor nagging details”.

Peace.