Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]joshcryer
(62,536 posts)...an important but un-assessed aspect of climate change. This is why it's so damning because they admit in AR4 that "low confidence" means they don't know squat, and if AR5 goes with it, which it probably will because there are only a handful of assessments about drought, then the main, most significant aspect of climate change, will go unnoticed. We can adapt to more storms, it just means capitalism gets to spend money (I believe the broken window fallacy is not a fallacy but a fact, when combined with Keynesianism which is effectively the MIC). It'll be near impossible to adapt to drought with quickly depleting aquifers.
Interestingly they recently found massive amounts of water in Africa. Neo-colonialism is probably going to happen in the next few decades.
Note: water here refers to fresh water.