silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded | Conditions for a January LA firestorm have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalistwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1170arrow-down1external-linkThe Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded | Conditions for a January LA firestorm have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalistwww.theguardian.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaresp3ctr4llinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month ago The reality is that farms pay pennies for multiple Olympic sized pools worth of water. My whole comment doing the math was inspired by me hearing people saying stuff like this, thinking it must be hyperbole… Your statement technically is, an olympic swimming pool is about 660k gallons… That would cost a farmer about $40. But it would cost an LA resident about $1850. Fucking bonkers. Like… I can see some level of subsidy, but not nearly 50x.
My whole comment doing the math was inspired by me hearing people saying stuff like this, thinking it must be hyperbole…
Your statement technically is, an olympic swimming pool is about 660k gallons…
That would cost a farmer about $40.
But it would cost an LA resident about $1850.
Fucking bonkers.
Like… I can see some level of subsidy, but not nearly 50x.
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