#aridity

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(via the Zac Carroll, the Front Porch guy)

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"I shall never be able to express clearly whence comes this pleasure people take from aridity, but always and everywhere I have seen them attach themselves more stubbornly to barren lands than to any other. They will die for a calcified, stony, leafless mountain. The nomads will defend to the death their great stores of sand as if it were a treasure of gold dust. And we; my comrades and I, we too have loved the desert to the point of feeling that it was there we had lived the best years of our lives."

~Antoine de St. Exupéry, 1938 Danger Ranger

[apesoformythoughts]

"But I do not grant the consolation of My visitations in one way alone, which would appear as if I had but one way in which to do so, but I grant it in diverse ways, according as pleases My goodness, and according to the need and the necessity of the soul. But the soul, in her ignorance, will, nevertheless, seek My consolations in that way alone which she has experienced, thereby, as it were, imposing laws on the Holy Spirit.

She should not do so, but should pass on courageously by the doctrine of Christ crucified, receiving what it pleases My Goodness to give her, and in the manner, time and place that I choose. And if, nevertheless, I give not, it is through love and not through hatred, and that she may seek and love Me in truth, and not for her own delight, receiving My charity with humility [...]

Such as these, of whom I have spoken, desire to choose their own consolations in their own way, and so to go through life, and their ignorance is at times so great that, having imagined a particular consolation, and I, visiting them in any way except that of their imagination, they will resist Me and will not receive Me. A soul who would act thus is deceived by her own pleasure and spiritual delight, for it would be impossible to remain always in one state. She must either go forward to the virtues or turn right backwards. And neither could the mind remain stationary in the enjoyment of one delight alone without My Goodness increasing that delight. Many are the kinds of delights that I give to the soul [...]

These various methods I use through love to preserve her and to increase, in her, humility and perseverance, and to show her that she need place no rules for me, nor seek her end in consolation, but only in virtue founded in Me, and to teach her with humility to receive what I choose to give her in My own time and manner, and to believe, with lively faith, that I give as her welfare demands or as is needed to bring her to great perfection."

— The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

[goingtiny]

Colorado will lose half its snow by 2080 and look more like Arizona, federal scientists conclude

Parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah are drying out due to climate-driven changes in stream flows, and these states will shift to become more like the most arid states of the Southwest, federal researchers found in a scientific study published...

The lead author of the study said Colorado will experience a 50% to 60% reduction in snow by 2080.

“We’re not saying Colorado is going to become a desert. But we see increased aridity moving forward,” said hydrologist Katrina Bennett at the federal government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

The researchers used an artificial intelligence “machine learning” system that allowed them to analyze massive amounts of data collected over 30 years including soil moisture, volumes of water in streams, evapotranspiration rates, temperature and precipitation across the varying landscapes within the Colorado River Basin. Tracking the West’s hydrology on such a scale previously would have taken years.

They concluded that large losses of snow will transform high elevation areas and that the phenomenon of melting snow that creates water will disappear entirely in some areas as temperatures rise.

The study was published, following peer review, in the journal Earth and Space Science and distributed Thursday by officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

For Colorado and surrounding “upper basin” states, the scientists projected wide shrinking of snow, leading to less spring snow melting followed by decreasing water in streams, especially in the Rocky Mountains. The study predicted, in particular, markedly increased aridity along the Green River as it flows near the borders of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

[vicariousplacebo]

Gothic Canyon - 哥特式峡谷 by IlFotografo

[itslandscapess]

Gothic Canyon - 哥特式峡谷

[thebestinphotography]

Triumph - 胜利

[luckyllobster]

Getreide Feld

Klatschmohn

Dürre

[anthr--apology]

More than three-quarters of Earth’s surface has become permanently drier, UN report says

The report found that between 1990 and 2020, an area larger than Canada – equivalent to 7.6 per cent of all land – had been permanently tran

“Ibrahim Thiaw, the convention’s executive secretary, called it “an existential threat affecting billions of people” in a written statement. “

“….There’s no going back from aridity,” said Narcisa Pricope, one of the report’s authors.”