08-19-2022, 11:57 PM
Today, as a result of one of the severest droughts ever in the Danubian Plain, hulks of sunken German warships from WWII, some still containing live munitions, have been exposed as the waterline shrinks.
This of course is weather and not a definitive result of AGW, but it is consistent with a pattern that some projections have for 50 to 75 years from now. At the least , warmer temperatures will require heavier rains just to offset evaporation in temperate zones. Europe is the region most likely to face ecological change from climate change.
East of Vienna, the countries in the Danubian plain are big producers of wheat, the grain crop most tolerant of low rainfall in the middle latitudes. Should climates in the Danubian basin get appreciably drier and hotter, then even the wheat crop will fail. Combining higher temperatures and lesser rains, the Danubian basin will go from something like eastern Nebraska to eastern New Mexico. Ranching would have to take over from wheat growing.
This of course is weather and not a definitive result of AGW, but it is consistent with a pattern that some projections have for 50 to 75 years from now. At the least , warmer temperatures will require heavier rains just to offset evaporation in temperate zones. Europe is the region most likely to face ecological change from climate change.
East of Vienna, the countries in the Danubian plain are big producers of wheat, the grain crop most tolerant of low rainfall in the middle latitudes. Should climates in the Danubian basin get appreciably drier and hotter, then even the wheat crop will fail. Combining higher temperatures and lesser rains, the Danubian basin will go from something like eastern Nebraska to eastern New Mexico. Ranching would have to take over from wheat growing.
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