Panama Canal Drought Slows Cargo Traffic
(www.nytimes.com)
from silence7@slrpnk.net to world@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 2024 18:34
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from silence7@slrpnk.net to world@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 2024 18:34
https://slrpnk.net/post/6142411
I’ll note that the Washington Post is also running an opinion piece titled A dry Panama Canal shows how climate change will scramble globalization
All links in this post are gift links, so it should be possible to access the articles for the next couple weeks if you have javascript enabled.
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I guess that guy trying to solve freght with aerostats was a visionary after all
And just so everyone remembers this, Lake Gatún is the primary water source for fresh water in the area.
That little facet plays a non-zero role in any discussion about travel along the canal.
And for those wondering how a canal “uses” water. At some point a lake that was never connected to the ocean, has some small amount of it discharge into the ocean every time a boat moves through the canal.
You can use all kinds of partitions and fancy pumps to reduce the amount of salt water that gets in and fresh water that leaves, but you can never get it to zero. There will always be some salt water getting into the lake and some fresh water making it to the ocean. And that value begins to add up when you have thousands of boats.
Yet another reminder that climate change is very much happening now, and isn’t just some abstract future problem. (Although the abstract future problems are in the pipeline as well)
I recently watched this YouTube video that explains the issue in depth, along with possible solutions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=glR7lvtrGRI
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