Posted on 08/20/2023 11:08:43 AM PDT by Vendome
In what is being called the “world’s worst traffic jam,” some 200 cargo ships are waiting to pass at the Panama Canal as, thanks to global climate change, the area experiences its worst drought in 100 years. As Futurism reports, the huge backlog has been growing for some time and might not get any better for a few weeks yet. The human-made passageway is famous not only as one of the world’s most impressive feats of engineering but as one of the most important trade routes on Earth.
"..the flow of ships at the Panama Canal started at about 1,000 vessels when it opened in 1914, that traffic has steadily increased. In the 2022 fiscal year, the passageway was crossed by over 14,200 ships, accounting for some 40% of U.S. container traffic and annually representing $270 billion in cargo. "
This might not seem like a lot, but the slowed passage has left an increasing number of ships waiting to cross the Panama Canal, now crossing the 200 mark and the wait for passage averaging 20 days. Due to the worsening drought, said canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales at a recent press conference, the restrictions could remain in effect through the rest of 2023, resulting in a loss of revenue estimated at $200 million.
“If we don’t adapt,” Morales says, “we are going to die.” It’ true for the Panama Canal, and for the planet as well.
....Oh well...
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This is stupid. It’s not like the Panama Canal is a land-locked lake - it connects two oceans! How the hell can it “dry up”?
Hi.
Just checked the current (30 days) satellite view of the canal and it doesn’t look dry.
Maybe I’m missing something.
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I’d say there is a smell of mismanagement in the air.
Besides, we won’t need the canal when the icecaps melt, anyway.
“Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea” by Gary Kinder. One of the best non-fiction books I’ve ever read.
Tells of the passengers and First San Francisco minted gold out of the Calif Gold Rush being shipped to New York in 1857.
Ship leaves San Francisco in Sept 1857 - travels South to Panama where cargo and passengers are off-loaded. Mules and oxen pulling wagons and carts are used to cross over the 50 miles or so of country of Panama (pre-canal) to the Atlantic side. Here they load the Gold and passengers onto the SS Central America (a side-wheeler, btw) to complete trip up the East Coast of US to NY City.
Fabulous history.
And, surprisingly, I have not told you the good part — the adventure then begins.
LOL. Wasn’t “global warming” supposed to make sea level rise? How the hell can a drought affect the level of the atlantic and pacific, oceans?
The rotation of the earth
From west ( sunrise )
to east ( sunset )
1k miles / hr
Would
actually push the Atlantic up
Push the Pacific down
In grade school geography
It was interesting to learn
The tilted polar axis
Gives us seasons
The oval rotation
Makes the distance to the sun
Closer in the northern half
In the winter
Further in summer
Moderating the heating - cooling effect
Increasing it in the southern half
Hotter in the summer
Colder in the winter ( austrayleeahh )
’ StrayLeeyah ‘ shortened they say from there
Also
If your hundreds of miles from the equator
The nights / days never change
Also
You need the long summer days
To grow good sweet corn
Not enough daylight
To do it in Hawaii- calif too
Indeed. This doesn't even make sense.
Are all you folks purposely faking ignorant replies?? Most people understand the Panama Canal locks aren’t fed from sea level water but from lake waters whose elevation is well above sea level. Hence, the need to raise & lower the ships at each end of the canal system.
You go over higher lands with rain and springs feeding those high grounds thus the lifts.
Your format is way too annoying to read.
Try again...
Systemic racism, probably.
The Panama canal is fed from a series of lakes
All of the water used for passage through the locks comes from the lakes fed by water from the rain forests. If there’s a drought that means there is less water available to use.
On the other hand didn’t Panama create a new set of larger locks to accommodate larger ships. These newer locks will require much more water. Maybe the new locks are using too much lake water.
I’m guessing China bought a few thousand ‘elties’ in DC (someone has to pay for their mansions, beach houses, fancy vacarions and $10.000 suits...) and they want permission to finish their new canal through Nicaragua...
Of course China would own it and it would costs American taxpayers billions of dollars... but China will cheerfully grease the hands of our DC grifters... so, it’ll happen.
O
K
Weren’t steam engines invented by Sir Isaac Watts around the 1700s? So that one (the drought ~100 years ago) must have been the fault of the British - the evil empire - and their use of coal to fuel steam engines. /sarc
(NOTE: Gloss over the inconvenient mathematical issues of how many years ago that was.)
Hi. I hope you are doing well.
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Giant Freaking Robot via MSN ^ | 8-19-2023 | Kevin C. Neece
“Are all you folks purposely faking ignorant replies?”
Yes.
The author and his publisher should be ridiculed and laughed at.
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ROFL!!!
If ocean levels are ACTUALLY RISING because of global warming, it’s even more confusing.
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