Water retention needs to be made a bigger issue globally. Others eluded to the fact that what is effectively the draining of the water cycle in CA is a main cause of CA's water/fire problems, but that is also the problem in places like central Europe where the straightening of the rivers during industrialization (19th C.) is and has essentially been "draining the swamp" of the central European water cycle.
It's something I have had the hardest time getting people to understand. The various straightened rivers all throughout Europe that have far less retention capacity than in the past, are essentially drainage canals that are sucking the whole of the central European region dry of water, which will only compound problems.
There are a couple things going on that are fooling people into an illusion that everything being fine, but it is happening and it is causing the low rainfalls, the low snow packs, and the low cloud cover that increases temperatures that are all perceived as/blamed on global warming.
If Europeans don't stop the draining of the continent, the problems and heat will only accelerate. Just alone in order to prevent the necessity of using climate control systems that devour energy should be enough of an argument to try to restore the cloud cover and rainfalls that could lower temperatures to what they were like before the rivers were straightened and evaporation also caused more winds and breezes.
It's something I have had the hardest time getting people to understand. The various straightened rivers all throughout Europe that have far less retention capacity than in the past, are essentially drainage canals that are sucking the whole of the central European region dry of water, which will only compound problems.
There are a couple things going on that are fooling people into an illusion that everything being fine, but it is happening and it is causing the low rainfalls, the low snow packs, and the low cloud cover that increases temperatures that are all perceived as/blamed on global warming.
If Europeans don't stop the draining of the continent, the problems and heat will only accelerate. Just alone in order to prevent the necessity of using climate control systems that devour energy should be enough of an argument to try to restore the cloud cover and rainfalls that could lower temperatures to what they were like before the rivers were straightened and evaporation also caused more winds and breezes.