Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread) (Part 1)

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There’s a drought in the swamp.

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… red = “unhealthy”

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BBC News - Canada wildfires: Drone footage shows scale of destruction in Northwest Territories

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BBC News - Greece wildfires: Eighteen bodies found in Greek forest

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Here our grass is brown and crispy. I don’t have to mow it. :tada:

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Nothing to see here, just tornadoes made of fire. The planet really wants us gone for what we’re doing to it.

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But:

The rules would not apply to lawns at residential homes, apartment buildings, cemeteries or any “functional turf” that has a recreational use, including sports fields, golf courses, playgrounds, pet exercise areas and picnic grounds.

Golf courses. Ugh. They get so overwatered in SoCal.

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… and they could call anything a “picnic ground” if somebody ate lunch there once :confused:

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I guess this idea got pushback/wasn’t widely adopted :thinking::

Fescue and Zoysia seem like baby steps in the right direction.

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It would be awesome if golf courses, like tennis, had different surfaces. This way the Southwest US could have hard-packed sand/clay for the fairways (with native trees and cacti surrounding them) and they could have a small green for each hole. The lower water usage would be significant.

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How would clover do for part of the course? Good for the bees & butterflies. Fixes nitrogen. Doesn’t need water in many places. Maybe not the SW though?

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Perfect putting green! They could still water that part.

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