Reposted from the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 20. April 2021
The COVID crisis worked wonderfully for the cheerleaders and addicts of lockdowns. It showed that it was indeed possible to panic the pubic enough to get them to accept restrictions and lockdowns.
WANTED: NEW CRISIS TO SUCCEED COVID 19
But everyone knows that the days are numbered for the COVID crisis, and so another crisis will be needed if the wonderful lockdowns and restrictions are to continue. But the “climate crisis” is just so old and much of public just isn’t buying it. Another crisis is needed to fan the flames of panic and to keep liberty at bay.
What could it be?
One crisis now circulating is the “global water crisis”. That, in combination with the global warming crisis, of course is leading to mass crop failures, thirst and later mass starvation in hundreds of millions, unless we act (lockdown) now.
In a brand new interview, yet another balding European doomsday scientist is warning we are now in the midst of a global water crisis – and of course time is running out and fundamental changes need to be enacted rapidly, among them a meat lockdown.
In a new interview, Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) researcher, Prof. Dr. Dieter Gerten says the “increasing water shortage” is due to population growth and of course “climate change”.
Signs of course are forest fires in California and Oregon caused by severe drought. And using just three years of below normal rainfall as scientific evidence, even Germany is allegedly drying out, Gerten suggests.
Warmer means drier?
Gerten warns that even with a global warming of just 2 degrees, water shortages in some regions would worsen significantly. Never mind what experts like the NOAA claim – omething Gerten avoids mentioning.
For Europe, Gerten is predicting much wetter winters, and extremely drier summers, and warns this will have dire consequences for agriculture.
Water as a human right
As a solution, Gerten cited Peter Gleick in suggesting a new integrated eco-system management and water ethic that views water as a human right.
To limit evaporation from agricultural land, Gerten suggests covering croplands with straw to hold in the moisture. Another solution is rainwater harvesting in ponds for use during dry periods. “Field studies show that crop yields can be doubled, or even quadrupled, simply by using water better, ” Gerten explains.
Why do PIK scientists know this, and farmers don’t?
“Not long ago, we calculated globally that if such measures were implemented on all existing agricultural land, then we would find massive production increases everywhere that is colored green (17:42) […] yields would increase without having to use one drop of water more.”
Gerten warns that climate change is going to make food far more difficult, especially in the red-colored regions (20:50) due to more heat and drought.
Veggie diet can save 40% water
Later Gerten suggests that the water crisis could be in large part averted by humans adopting a vegetarian diet, which according to one study (Vanham et al 2016) requires some 40% less water for food production.
That’s the aim: to turn everyone into vegetarians. The meat lockdown is in the pipeline.
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There’d be plenty (fresh) water for absolutely *EVERYBODY* if the soil organic material was put back in its proper place. In the soil as it ‘appens.
Some of it is floating around in the sky. Let it be.
Grind up some basalt, spread it around and then melt some limestone and chalk.
Ol’ Ma Nature will do the rest
The Climate would be nice and temperate/moderate too.
Quote me on that.
Scaring the shit out of everybody, as UK Government is so proud of doing is gonna get quite the contrary result to what they want.
From the folks who haven’t , literally, been scared to de4th.
Hence the sky high per-capita Covid rate in the UK
They do it via the Office of Statistics, the BBC and the perfectly dysfunctional Behaviour Insights Team (BIT)
The BITs did good eh not?
Something concerning water came in here, just this morn in fact, from California Ag-Net
Adds to the Global Woes started by the freezings of Germany and France, eh what?
I Don’t Care. Sorry.
Ne Pas Un Single Toss
Apart from the list of affected ‘foods’ on their grotesquely red-coloured map
None of that shyte, apart from the onions & garlic maybe, are worth eating.
Nutrient-free water-filled (and fibre which removes any nutrients that were in there) junk that was never intended for the likes of us Human Types.
And they’re worried about water…..
Gimme, give us all, a break
Overpopulation you say? Nope
Empty Planet: Preparing for the Global Population Decline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAgHvETNSg
Need a new crisis you say? Well they’re already working on it, Heir Klaus calls it a “Cyber Pandemic”
https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon
As if the banksters are going to take any of the blame for crashing the global financial system off the back of all the debasement they’ve been doing for years, when annoymous “hackers” can be blamed, I bet they’re from N. Korea or Iran (since Russia is running the ‘live exercise’ Cyber polygon on July 9th this yr.
Good thing they’re all rolling out their Central Bank Digital Currency and planning crypto rollout (UK is calling theirs ‘stablecoin’) Lagarde says the EU version will be rolled out mid decade, China & Russia recently rolled their out.
This will give an indepth view of it all, note the players and their backgrounds, looks like digital currency meets digital ID and social credit, handy their new digital passports have the turnkey solution already!
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/
People won’t accept it you say? They will if it’s the only way to get their ‘Universal Basic Income’
Goodbye black economy, hello social credit, and digital slavery!
The more this crap is pushed the bigger the black market gets, not to mention how so many hackers are undermining the “new” economy. The future, of crime, is looking bright.
And when (not if) they make it illegal for exchanges to convert any ‘non-state’ crypto into legal tender… QED.
the list is already growing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country_or_territory
Why are they all Mann lookalikes?
Clones.
Well, if there is going to be a water shortage then my home town of Manchester,England should be the richest place on the planet….
These people hate meat not because of food shortage or climate change, they just think that killing tasty animals is wrong, and will find any and all means to reduce or prevent its production.
What the writers of the article don’t allow for is that goat , pork, and beef production (the predominant meats consumed in the world) convert lower quality grasses, grains, and agricultural byproducts into useful nutrition for people.
When you see a hay field, or grazing land for goats and cattle, you are seeing a much less intensive agricultural resource requirement for a given human benefit than direct vegetable and grain production for human consumption. The ruminant gut is an amazing benefit to mankind, taking low grade celulosic material, and converting it into microbial mass and byproducts which cows and goats can live off of.
If these people were worried about potable water and water for agriculture, they would be pressing for means to increase supply, such as reservoirs and nuclear powered desalination plants, instead of the Erlichian/Holdrinian desire to reduce water demand by eliminating the human population.
I don’t hate on meat, although personally don’t eat any, & have no issue with those who eat it.
Also, range animals can and do take themselves to natural surface water supplies. Sometimes we have to supplement this by putting stock ponds or small dams in place, but it isn’t something that wild animals haven’t had to deal with since they first evolved.
Three thousand and more years ago people responded to a severe water crisis by innovation like digging cisterns in the driest areas and adapting.
Only a fool today thinks he can play God and engineer better climate zones for the world. A wise man takes what he can get and adapts.
As I have said on this website before there are many areas that alternate between drought and flooding – too little and too much water. Only a small percentage of the flood needs to be captured and stored for the dry seasons. This can be done at a small fraction of the exorbitant cost of foolishly trying to engineer climate.
I’m confused, it looks like Gerten didn’t mention lockdowns of any sort anywhere. So why does the title suggest he did?
The world obesity federation states that one third of the world is now obese and a problem in every country. With a world population increasing at a million a week it sure is doing well for lack of food and water.
Need more meat and fewer nasty carbohydrates.
It’s amazing how this useless idiot can get so very much wrong in one short article.
He probably thinks all the water will evaporate off into space or something – even if it weren’t nonsense and had some basis in fact, we do know how to build desalination plants.
Water crisis now is it? Well that takes care of more dams and pumped hydro to the rescue for their pet unreliables.
One has to realize that PIK was founded in Potsdam in 1991 in the aftermath of the nearby Stasi training university shutdown 6 months earlier. Then things begin to make sense about the early years of Soviet support for the climate movement in the West that started in 1988.
NO! ENOUGH! This ludicrous pack of lies to try and panic the people is over. Humanity needs to relegate these liars to the trash bin of history and start being positive! Life has never been better for humanity and to sink to the bottom and live with these prophets of doom is tragic if we let this go on.
Water crisis? Where? The Great Lakes have more water than this dorkweed can possibly imagine, even in his wildest dreams. And that’s just the Great Lakes, never mind the numerous rivers and lakes all over the cotton-pickin’ North American continent.
I don’t think this guy is an Earthling. I am more and more convinced that he and others of his ilk are space aliens pretending to be ‘just like us’ and want to take over the Whatever. They all look alike and they all say the same things, like robots with lips.
Frankly, as a meatasaurus, I would like to see this particular twerp try to pry my bacon away from me. But I’ll go hit Aldi and Jewel and maybe even the Fresh Market stores for beef, chicken and pork and he can just go pound sand.
Looks like a limp-wristed snork, in my view, and probably is made at his Mommy because he was bottlefed, instead of the other thing.
Water crisis, my Fat Aunt Harriet!!!!!
Want to use water more efficiently in agriculture? Raise the atmospheric CO2 concentration.
A vegan diet is mostly long term malnutrition because, even though thinks like soy beans have all 20 amino acids, the 8 essential amino acids are not in sufficient abundance. It’s a great way to subdue a population and shorten lifespans, because there is no way they will foster the difficult combinations of nuts and grains that provides a truly healthy diet.
A curious thing about eCO2 water use efficiency improvement is that in rain fed agriculture when some (I won’t extrapolate saying all) an edible crop is mature they can actually put out more water (evapo-transpiration) from their leaves than control plants at ambient CO2. One explanation offered is that: while eCO2 facilitates more soil moisture (in the context of initially less leaf evapo-transpiration draw down of soil moisture under eCO2) a later dry period of high daily maximum temperature & clear daytime sky actually see the eCO2 grown plant continue it’s evapo-transpiration rate, whereas the ambient CO2 control plant leaves reduce the water they let out.
This dynamic is related to rain fed multi-year experiments with soybeans. I have also seen data that under unusually dry conditions sorghum also perform greater evapo-transpiration under eCO2. Sorghum/millet are key African food crops in certain semi-arid regions & so I
have written this out.
One last observation about late crop season drought under eCO2 is that the rain fed soybeans under eCO2 having greater water evapo-transpiration were measurably cooler in their leaf canopy than rain fed ambient CO2 age mates. Which is another feature that I’ll just describe as desirable.
Hey, I got an idea! Cover all the lakes and ponds with PV!!! No evaporation…
“For Europe, Gerten is predicting much wetter winters, and extremely drier summers, and warns this will have dire consequences for agriculture.”
“Another solution is rainwater harvesting in ponds for use during dry periods. ”
“Why do PIK scientists know this, and farmers don’t?”
Once again we see pronouncements from someone that obviously has lived an isolated life in a concrete jungle with no actual knowledge of the real world at all!
If you get more water in the winter what happens to it? The fact is that much of that winter wet stuff (commonly known as snow) eventually winds up as either subsoil moisture or as runoff into rivers and streams. Springtime subsoil moisture leads to better crops as the plants extend roots further and further down to keep chasing needed moisture. This allows the plants to make better use of whatever summertime moisture is received. Spring water melt can be collected in reservoirs and saved for summertime use.
And ponds? Has this person *ever* actually done much travelling in actual agricultural areas? The entire middle of the USA is dotted with ponds and tail water pits. From Illinois to Colorado and Texas to North Dakota (there’s nothing like walking/driving the ground while pheasant/quail hunting to get a feel for the territory). My youngest son traveled extensively in Europe after college and saw the same things there.
Farmers *do* know all of this. It is just more confirmation that the author of this piece has *never* gone into the field and actually talked to real farmers!
Just close down the Pottsdork Institute and all our problems will be solved. The total IQ at that place seems to be about 5.
Plenty of land on the canadian prairies that is marginal for agriculture due to lack of water, that produces a lot of meat instead
Why don’t we just impose global martial law and force everyone to remain at home. The military can deliver “approved” foods for everyone to eat. Nobody will be allowed to do anything until all the crises are under control.
I probably shouldn’t be giving them ideas…
In German vaccination centeres military personal assists…..
Water “shortage” in Saudi Arabia
Move to France. Not a chance in hell for anything remotely like a prohibition of meat.
Well Ed, I’m afraid the eco-fascists are trying to sneek it in even here…
https://apnews.com/article/lyon-france-no-meat-school-lunch-c623853e5f9bb5988463afaa1a2e69bf
Maybe these so-called experts should take the time to understand how water footprints are calculated. Start by asking why beef cattle have a larger water footprint than dairy cattle. It’s not because one consumes more water than the other. It’s because beef cattle are often ranged over a larger area. After all, there is no such thing as a dairy ranch.
Water footprints are divided into green, blue and gray water. Green water is precipitation; i.e., the amount of rain and snow that falls on crops and pastures. Blue water refers to surface water (rivers, lakes, etc.) and aquifers. Gray water refers to the water used to dilute pollution.
When discussing water shortages, blue water is the only number that counts. And guess what? Crops use more blue water than livestock. Most of the water attributed to livestock is green water, meaning the precipitation that will fall on a piece of land regardless of what it is used for, and every drop of the virtual precipitation that falls on those fields, grasslands and rangelands is included in the models
Worldwide edible animal water use is 87.2% green water, 6.2% blue water & 6.6% grey water. With 33.3% of that water being used by beef cattle & 19% being used by dairy animals.
None-the-less 98% of the total water used by cattle worldwide is actually attributable to the plant feed so many are given. Their drinking water only amounts to 1.1% of total water involved, so called service related water is 0.8% & water involved in process mixing of feed 0.03% of the total water involved.
Although free range livestock have obvious value when discussing edible production on a large scale this is only demonstrable in New Zealand & in other regions on a smaller scale. What remains to be acknowledged is that 40% of the total world cereal grain crop yield is used for edible animals’ feed (see above this adds 98% to world total water usage by cattle). I think many are mistaken in the belief that worldwide crops are predominantly irrigated; the actual production of crops is predominantly using precipitation, or “green” water.
The chart below details “Litre” of water required per kilogram, kilocalorie, gram protein & gram fat for different important edible foods.
40% of the total cereal crop yield is not used for livestock feed. According to recent studies, roughly 87% of livestock feed is not human edible. For ruminants, the bulk of that feed comes from grasses and forbs, either as pasture or hay. Concentrated animal feeds come primarily from crop residues (stems, hulls, leaves; most of the phytomass from crops is not human edible), food waste (skins, rinds, pulp, etc.) and the byproducts of ethanol, vegetable oils and faux milks made from soy, almonds, rice, oats, and so on.
The 40% figure is from FAO 2001 – 2010 data. The fact that animals can convert human non-dietary foodstuff into humanly edible nutrition is a good thing & still leaves us discussing the issue of water input to get a calorie or protein/fat gram.
You mention concentrates & these use “green” water at the rate of 849 cubic mt of water/ton + “blue” water at the rate of 78 cubic mt./ton + “grey” water at the rate of 122 cubic mt/ton; for a total of 1,048 cubic meters of water/ton of concentrate. You also mention roughage (pasture, green cereal forage, grass for silage, fodder crops & straw) which uses 1.99 cubic meters of “green” water/ ton + “blue” water at the rate of 1.8 cubic mt/ton + “grey” water at the rate of 2.8 cubic mt/ton; for a total of 203 cubic mt water/ton.
There is a relatively low rate of water usage of animal forage compared to relatively high rate of water usage to get animal feed concentrates. This is a ratio that needs context & I will try to add a chart below. The chart’s 1st column on the left is for poultry, the middle column for pork & the far column on the right is for beef. To be precise, this is data averaged for several western countries & is not presented as representative of nomad herds – just illustrative of what we supermarket shopping Wattsupwiththat readers are likely to be buying.
Here’s that graphic: from left to right it is for poultry, pork & beef. It is poorly rendered. The light grey vertical bar is “industrial”, the dark grey vertical bar is “mixed” & the black vertical bar is “grazing”; these terms are representing the type of animal production. The scale of 0-100 is “% of concentrate feed in total feed”.
I can hear the cry to have the right to bear arms becoming louder by the day.
And probably that is exactly why Biden is introducing new gun control legislation, in the hopes that the Democrat dominance in the House and Senate can ram it through.
Imagine the water savings if we drop the ethanol mandates.
Another German was a vegetarian too. He was the ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
There can NEVER be a water shortage. Water infinitely recyclable.
The shortages that are being talked about are shortages of water industry infrastructure. NOT the raw material. And the answer is simply to invest in building more…