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petergleick

@petergleick@fediscience.org

Climate and water scientist and communicator. Interested in many things, including birds, mandolin, politics. You can also find my stuff at www.gleick.com.
Author of a mess of scientific papers, the 9 volumes of The World's Water (Island Press); Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Island Press); A 21st Century US Water Policy (Oxford); and my new book: "The Three Ages of Water." !!

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I think it should be obvious now that our international laws of war, like the Geneva Conventions, are only as good as our ability and willingness to enforce them.
I.e., not good at all right now.
Violators are still war criminals. Just unpunished ones.

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Don't love the catch-22 where you try to get into your Microsoft access in Gmail but they send a security code to your email and you have to close the login page to open the email with the code and then can't get back to where you have to enter the code.

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I love this. The last "big" New Jersey earthquake was in 1783, and George Washington slept through it.

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To be honest, Washington was probably exhausted and had been celebrating the evacuation of Manhattan by the British just a few days prior and the reoccupation of NYC by the Americans!

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East Coast gets a 4.8 . West Coast shrugs.

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Some voter fraud IS rampant, but it's always Republicans doing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/03/kim-taylor-iowa-voter-fraud-sentence/

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Can anyone name ONE SINGLE business transaction that Trump has been involved in that hasn't ended up with people in jail?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/business/trump-truth-social-insider-trading/index.html

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Hey, if you're near Sausalito on April 17th, 6-8 pm, come to this great event hosted by Books by the Bay for Earth Day. "Fire and Water: Facing an Elemental Future"
(at the Spinnaker Banquet Hall).

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I'm ready for the coming eclipse and for the second threat that could cast America into darkness.

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I'm giving the opening keynote Thursday at the major Water Conservation Showcase in San Ramon. Come hear about the human history of water!

https://www.waterconservationshowcase.com/

petergleick, to Futurology
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How our standards have changed. Everyone is talking about how California's had a good year. In fact, we've had an "average" or slightly worse than average water year. The reservoirs are full, snowpack is almost exactly aveage and there won't be shortages, but we're now happy when all we get is "average."

Graphic showing northern Sierra mountain precipitation is just about average for April 1st.
Graphic of California snowpack showing statewide average is almost exactly 100% of expected April 1 value, no more or less.

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Are you in the SF Bay Area or around Napa? Are you interested in water, food, and wine?

Come to this Workshop on the Future of Water, in Napa. I'll be speaking as part of a great program:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-water-workshop-tickets-873971972697?aff=oddtdtcreator

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My interview with the Canadian Water Network.

https://cwn-rce.ca/2024/03/21/thought-leader-interview-with-peter-gleick-author-of-the-three-ages-of-water/

petergleick, to Futurology
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The irony.
On World Water Day, the Russians attack the largest remaining dam in Ukraine, a clear and explicit violation of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols against attacking civilian infrastructure and dams.
And a reminder they most certainly destroyed the massive Kakhovka Dam last June.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68637596

petergleick, to Futurology
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Each March 22 since 1993, the world has marked . At the Pacific Institute, we are proud to approach each day like it’s World Water Day.

Here are our thoughts this year— a year dedicated to for peace.

https://pacinst.org/pacific-institute-reflects-on-world-water-day-theme-water-for-peace/

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It's .
Billions lack access to safe drinking water. Water conflicts are on the rise. Climate change is worsening extreme hydrologic events, including both floods and droughts. Groundwater used for food production is in shorter and shorter supply. It's time to refocus on the world's most precious resource — — and move to a more sustainable future. The solutions are out there. It's time to find them, fund them, and scale them up.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Ages-Water-Prehistoric-Imperiled/dp/1541702271

petergleick,
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@codebyjeff It's available at Bookshop.org of course, or support your local bookstore.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future/18943639

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Tomorrow is World Water Day and my book is almost 30% off at Amazon! Do you have your copy?

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future https://a.co/d/iuW8kMo

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I think one of the first asset James seizes should be Trump's private planes.
Let him fly commercial to his campaign rallies.

petergleick, to Futurology
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As World Water Day approaches, more signs of the growing crisis.

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-johannesburg-water-crisis-weather-fa8c921c6a063a31aec37e05864d61fb

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Saudi crown prince brags Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence | Daily Mail Online

"The intelligence allegedly discussed during Kushner's visit to the Middle East last October was said to have came from U.S. wiretaps on conversations between Arab royals in hotels in London, in major U.S. cities and even on yachts docked close to Monte Carlo, a favorite playground of the super-rich.

A separate source told DailyMail.com that it was being said in the Gulf that the president's son-in-law took a copy of information from the daily intelligence briefing provided by the intelligence community to the White House, and shared its contents with MBS."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5575395/Saudi-crown-prince-brags-Jared-Kushner-handed-U-S-intelligence.html

petergleick,
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@rayckeith Isn't this, umm, treason?

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I'm not sure whose idea it was to put little hard-to-remove stickers on every goddam piece of fruit but they should be publicly ostracized.

petergleick,
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@MacropodCare @Helderweb My market is extremely locally provisioned. Much of the fruit still has labels.

petergleick, to climate
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I don't think people understand how extremely unusual the huge rise in global surface and ocean temperatures were in 2023 (and now in 2024), how scientists are struggling to understand it, and the growing worry in the science community about what it means.
Here's a new article from one of the world's top climate scientists. Are we in "uncharted territory?"

"We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

petergleick,
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@redshiftdrift Here's a graphic showing climate model projections and actual observed data. As you can see the last year showed a staggering temperature increase, but it's still within the envelope of projected warning.

petergleick,
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@aliceonboard No, it's not heating from underneath.

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