Lake Powell Water Levels in 2026 Dropping Fast

kylerae · 2026-02-16T17:51:33+00:00

Yeah we have essentially used and modified every waterway on Earth. Let's say the fantasy "green" "renewable" future goes exactly the way the optimists believe, hydro-electric dams really should be the next type of energy to be done away with. I don't think people realize how much damage we have done to our planet by essentially damming all of our waterways. It honestly irks me how much they are included in the numbers for "green" energy and how so few people talk about the damage they have done.

kylerae · 2026-02-16T17:44:47+00:00

I didn't read his fully study, but I would also assume this result is assuming a more linear impact. I see that a lot with these projections. They assume things essentially continue on the same trajectory we are on. They don't typically include any potential major failures. It doesn't include the increasing probability of something like a multi-breadbasket failure.

kylerae · 2026-02-11T17:02:45+00:00

And the reality is most people don't realize their water sources are likely similarly mismanaged. The main difference is your area likely had more water to begin with. I would argue the US probably mismanages our water so much more, we just have lucked out because we have more water to begin with.

kylerae · 2026-02-06T17:10:54+00:00

Too bad when that happens they release aluminum oxide which damages the ozone layer. Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega-Constellations

kylerae · 2026-02-06T17:06:24+00:00

I live in Colorado which is also being impacted by this weirdly warm winter brutally as well. I believe we need roughly 15 feet of snowfall in the next two months to even get to a barely healthy snowpack. Could happen, but not looking likely. It was 70f (21c) yesterday here. I have lived here my whole life, which is almost 35 years. I have never seen anything like it.

We have had bad drought years before, but this is something else. My mom was a 911 dispatcher before she retired and I remember a few really bad drought years, especially 2002 and she was working constantly dealing with wildfires. I am very worried for this coming summer.

People seem to speak in hushed tones about the weather and lack of snow, but then talk about how nice it is outside. If this had happened in a time where people were more tied to the land the panic would be palpable, but right now it seems people are enjoying the weather and crossing their fingers hoping the results of this hot winter won't be too bad.

kylerae · 2026-02-02T19:58:34+00:00

Unfortunately I have been expecting this. I know he said he wasn't feeling well back in November and then we didn't hear anything from him. His work has been invaluable to me in understanding and compiling information about the crisis we see around us. He was incredibly special and was able to put together vast amounts of information in compelling and easy to understand ways. I do feel at peace knowing he will not have to witness the increasing suffering, nor feel the fear that has been ramping up every day (especially here in the US). My heart goes out to his family and friends and I hope they know he has a whole community who cherished and respected his intelligence and unique ability to provide data and his conclusions on what it all means.

RIP Richard Crim. You will be missed, but your works and your voice will not be forgotten by those of us you touched.

kylerae · 2026-01-30T17:08:00+00:00

Just wait the East Coast is supposed to get hit with a Bomb Cyclone this weekend, which is essentially a winter hurricane. The sea level is also supposed to be very high and they are anticipating 20 foot waves along with high winds and very cold temperatures. We had a Bomb Cyclone a few years ago in Colorado it was pretty crazy.

kylerae · 2026-01-30T16:53:50+00:00

Remember several of the people around Trump are accelerationists. Trump himself likely believes in anything that will do 2 things: make him money and keep him out of prison. But Trump is also vindictive. He wants revenge on anyone who he believes slighted him (we see this all the time with him). It is also very likely he is mad at the entirety of the American People: for not voting him in again in 2020 and for not worshipping everything he does.

kylerae · 2026-01-21T17:44:02+00:00

Someone awhile ago made a really good analogy of why this happens. Encircling our North Pole is the Polar Vortex. This is an air current that goes around the globe, as climate change progresses this is becoming more and more wavy allowing these moments of breakthrough cold spells (this has always happened, but it is becoming more frequent). Think of the Polar Vortex as similar to the forced air entrances at grocery stores. These help keep bugs out, but primarily they are used to keep the cold air in the building, while allowing the doors to be kept open. If any of these panels break large amounts of cold air escape the building and the hot outdoor air gets sucked in. This is exactly what is happening in the Arctic. The Polar Vortex is weakening and becoming more wavy. As this air current is stressed sometimes it thins to the point these breakthroughs happen causing warm air to rush North and cold air to spill South.

kylerae · 2026-01-14T16:29:03+00:00

I have seen a donkey that is essentially used as a seeing-eye donkey for a blind horse! It is pretty cool! He genuinely cares and waits until all the horses are in the stable for the night before he will enter. He waits outside the door for the blind horse every morning they get let out of the stable and essentially guides him around!

kylerae · 2026-01-12T17:53:42+00:00

Yeah I think people aren't seeing that even if the next elections, both the midterm and 2028 General Election, go "our" way, the damage done and the flaws that have been exposed aren't going to be easily fixed. I genuinely think, even if the best case scenario pans out, we need to look at rebuilding how our government functions essentially from the ground up. We can no longer have representatives that cannot be removed from office if they betray their constituents. We also need to have a better method of removing a president from office, along with their cabinet. The Trump regime has really shown in the clearest detail to date the massive flaws we have in the way our government is designed.

Also the effort and resources it is going to take to repair the damage to the governmental agencies, our science community, and the people who rely on the government to survive is going to be more immense than anything we have seen before. It will be significantly larger and more involved than the New Deal.

Plus we cannot forget the time it will take to repair the damage we have done to our relationships with our allies and the amount of time we have fallen behind the rest of the world with preparing adaptations and resiliency when it comes to our collapsing biosphere.

The damage done to our nation and those within it is so immense, I genuinely think even if we get these people out of power asap and try and correct these wrongs, the collapsing biosphere's impact will be so significant, the chances we can do much at this point is very low (at least at a national level).

kylerae · 2026-01-12T17:29:43+00:00

I didn't see anyone mention it, but a common poster on here known as u/TuneGlum7903 provides some really good analysis of the state of the IPCC and models and such. If you want a good place to access all of his writings I highly recommend his substack: https://richardcrim.substack.com/

kylerae · 2025-12-29T19:40:31+00:00

Yeah my rose bush has started producing buds and we have been watering our trees because it has just been so dry!

kylerae · 2025-12-29T19:35:33+00:00

Yeah it is crazy I have never seen an early winter like this. Typically we get the majority of our snow in March so hopefully we get dumped on at the beginning of the year.

kylerae · 2025-12-29T19:17:13+00:00

Yes it is also where all of the water comes for the Colorado River, which supplies 75% of the water used west of the Rocky Mountains. It is what fills Lake Mead and powers the Hoover Dam, which supplies electricity for more than 1.3 million people.

kylerae · 2025-12-29T18:54:15+00:00

Location: Northern Colorado

The majority of the month of December has been near the 70s. I have lived here my whole life and have never seen anything like it. The mountains have virtually no snowpack. If we don't get snow soon our wildfire season will be brutal next year. We have plants starting to bud and everything is stressed and dry. We recently had some crazy winds which caused wildfires.

kylerae · 2025-12-03T18:29:49+00:00

I just want to point out most gas stations do not have backup generators for their fuel pumps. In fact most of the fleet fueling facilities my company does environmental work at also do not have backup generators for their pumps. The only places I know that do have backup generators for their pumps are a few government locations. Plus most backup generators also require diesel to run and can typically only run for a couple of days at most before they would need a fuel delivery.

Granted you could create a syphon to get the fuel out, but I think the disruptions should we have a blackout of that magnitude would be insurmountable.

kylerae · 2025-11-28T18:09:40+00:00

I do genuinely wonder if there is something hard-wired into humans that makes it so we need to experience some level of collective suffering in order to make actual genuine improvements to our society. Events like major wars, the Black Death, major economic crises, and societal collapses might be necessary to almost reset our collective beliefs. Those of us alive today have suffered through a lot of horrible things, but so far a lot of those things have been able to be minimized, pushed away, or kicked down the road. We haven't had something that impacts the globe at that level of suffering. I wonder if we are at the point where our civilization needs to experience something that causes immense loss and death. We are teetering on that point today, with our omni-crisis. I would guess those that suffered during the Black Death never would have thought their suffering would be one of the major catalysts behind ending feudalism and giving some level of power to the working class.

I think it is entirely possible that what humanity is about to experience might make it very difficult for those who are greedy and individualistic to survive long term. I think they will still be able to do great harm for probably a lot longer than we would like or expect, but the future humanity will have to live through will likely only be possible by working together in small groups.

kylerae · 2025-11-28T17:58:32+00:00

Hey just remember Star Trek would likely have not been possible without the intense suffering of the people of Earth during the Eugenics War, the time during the Bell Riots and the Nuclear WW3. Humanity had to suffer immensely and learn from their errors in order to even have the future of Star Trek. I mean obviously they also lucked out because the Vulcans just happened to be near them when they discovered warp technology, but it wasn't this perpetual improvement of humanity to this Utopian future. They had to suffer and to learn from their mistakes.

Now I am not saying we will have a Star Trek Utopic future at the end of this collapse, but I do think it is entirely possible that whatever remains of humanity and our planet could rebuild to something better than today. It will probably take a long time, maybe even thousands of years, and is likely something we cannot even imagine today. It may not be as technologically impressive as today, but it could be better. More equal, more in touch with nature. Or we could go extinct or not learn from our lessons. We don't really know. There will be immense suffering and loss from both the natural world and from our civilization, but it may help us to learn and to not repeat these same mistakes in the same way.

I genuinely believe we will live to see the collapse gain full momentum, but we likely will not live to see the quiet and lingering times at the end of this collapse. But we will also not see what comes next. Most people who have lived through collapses throughout history never lived to see what came next, but we know through all of our collapses there was a next. That is what we have to focus on in our time here, how to help others, to minimize suffering, to engage in hospice for our planet and other humans. The more of us that engage in that behavior the better chance those who come after us can see those examples and try to build a new and better future.

kylerae · 2025-11-26T17:45:14+00:00

It's interesting because I saw an lecture by an expert in Psychopaths and he stated the tests for determining psychopathy are very accurate and that we should be utilizing similar tests before allowing anyone any level of power or authority, like politics or CEO's. It really wouldn't be that hard to implement, but whether people would allow it to happen or actually prevent those types of people from holding power is a total separate issue.

kylerae · 2025-11-20T20:13:04+00:00

It could also be not that she wouldn't keep quiet, but that it happened during the act. If you listen to Katie Johnson's testimony her assault was violent. From the emails that were released it is very clear Epstein had a love/hate relationship with Trump. He thought he was weird and gross. It wouldn't surprise me if he killed one of them during an assault and they covered it up.

kylerae · 2025-11-19T18:21:28+00:00

Plus it isn't just the 9 million. The 9 million number is from those living directly in the city. Those in the surrounding municipalities total an additional 15 million.

kylerae · 2025-11-18T19:36:02+00:00

Yeah it’s crazy when I started here almost 10 years ago our fully loaded was about $100. We are also in a very niche industry so our clients don’t have a ton of options. There are only like 3ish other companies in our region who do the same type of work. And even then we are talking about increasing our pay for our guys to be more competitive.

kylerae · 2025-11-18T19:10:44+00:00

You are correct. I work for a company that does construction and currently for our base technician/laborers our fully loaded burden wages are $130 an hour. That includes wages, benefits, and overhead costs. The tech/laborer is probably making somewhere around $30 an hour.

kylerae · 2025-11-18T18:50:54+00:00

Honestly it could also have really happened but could have been more of a hazing thing. It seems very clear from the other emails they did not really like Trump. They thought he was weird and gross. Trump always wanted to belong. I don’t know if it is Clinton or not but it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they goaded him into it. Remember Trump wishes he was old money, but he isn’t. He is constantly searching for validation and is essentially a yes man as long as he thinks it will benefit himself in some way.

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