The insane potential of Pumped Storage Hydropower.

The heating of Barent's Sea, partly by air (in addition to Gulf Stream) was the tipping point. The new normal is 110 degree summer temperature in July in the southwest while Canada burns and pollutes the air in Canada and US.

Carbon dioxide is not the problem. Hot asphalt heated up the sea, which is heating up the Arctic, which is heating the global north, which heats Barent's Sea. The vicious cycle feeds itself. The point has tipped. Barring ending gasoline use, covering roads and parking with electric links for cars on bottom and grass/irrigation and solar panels on top, there will be no relief. Forget warming via carbon. Actual hot air is the problem to blame for hot gulf stream and surface temperature increase from air. Read Barent's Sea paper from nature.

People complementing themselves on being carbon neutral does not stop the crisis. Capping carbon usage to preindustrial levels or even global temperature to 1.5 degrees over that time period. The problem is that warming the sea that warmed the Arctic Ocean has been getting worse by one degree every year. A local problem.

Hunga Tonga likely disrupted the trade wind patterns causing La Nina caused drought, so the west and southwest are soon to be out of a water crisis. It was not warming after all.  Not every bad effect is about carbon. Maybe none of them are. The heated air coming from the East Coast megacity is what tipped the scales. Not CO2. 

The question is what will it take to cook the megacity heat done? Roofing over roads and parking lots, installing tethered electric and banning gasoline in urban areas and major highways is what will do it.

How many poor people in already hot or newly hot areas have to die before we act. How many irrigated farms and cities will be abandoned? Of course, some must be. There should be no farms in Arizona. Ever.

Warming with El Nino moisture may allow forests to develop that can make their own weather, or we can simply close down parts of the southwest as people flee anyway. And after a few years like this one in a row, they will flee. Not a bad thing 

Agriculture needs to become indoor, vertical and beef and pork lab grown. Probably chickens too (with artificial eggs). Sheep and goats are needed for clothing and cheese.

Anything that can be conveniently raised indoors (not factory farmed) or grown in a Mars mission or in orbit can be. Nothing else, including mass grain that depletes the earth, should be if it can be replaced.

Forget wheat and corn. Plant grass and let the earth heal itself. Also, ban high fructose corn syrup. It is a chemical, not a food. And forget soy too. Not needed if we can lab grown meat. MSG is also poison, as are many foods with high soy content. Also the oils (aside from olive and coconut). Trans fats are killing people too. If we can clone milk fat, we can have nice healthy butter.