Believing Person Blog– Wednesday is Environment Change, the Atmosphere, and Sustainability Day
Today’s Topic: Alpine Glaciers “The Water Tower of Europe”– the Rhine, the Rhone, the Po
Did you know that Europe is the world’s fastest heating continent? “Temperature levels in Europe are raising at twice the ordinary international rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps go away, Europe’s biggest rivers are shedding a crucial resource of their summertime water flow.” So what? Just how bad is it?
Today, a couple of passages from the records of a NPR report by Rob Schmitz plus a couple of more notes. What do you understand about the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Po that the remainder people may not however would take advantage of learning?
Specialists– please chime in. Correct, elaborate, clarify.
THE WATER TOWER ANALOGY– all-natural high elevation storage tanks
1 “The water they have actually stored for centuries streams down Europe’s biggest rivers during the hot and dry summer season, replacing rain and snowmelt from the spring.”
2 “And the Rhone isn’t the only river whose source is a glacier– the Rhine, the Danube, the Po– the continent’s largest rivers all start below.”
3 “And when these glaciers are gone … these rivers will be for life altered.”
IN 2018 THE WATER DEGREE WAS SO LOW IN THE RHINE, “THE MAIN ARTERY OF GERMANY’S ECONOMIC SITUATION,” THAT “BARGES COULD NO LONGER NAVIGATE THE RIVER”– so an entrepreneur established a barge that can run in shallower water. The river cruise company will be under significant danger.
1 Steffen Bauer, Chief Executive Officer of HGK Shipping developed a barge that can transport as much as 600 tons of goods in simply over 3 feet of water (versus the regular of 11 and a half feet).
2 “Bauer’s group is constructing as lots of as they can. Yet in a sector that builds just a hundred barges a year, he states it’ll take a while to get used to these new water levels.”
3 “In April 2025, the Rhine at Fragrance went to about half the typical degree for that time of year. Critical chokepoints on the Rhine have also seen water levels go down to alarmingly nadirs compeling ship to cruise at a portion of their regular capability.” (AI)
THE RHINE MOVES TO THE NORTH SEA, THE RHONE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND THE PO TO THE ADRIATIC– what is the most effective map of Europe’s rivers you have ever before stumbled upon?
1 The Rhine is recognized for its beautiful charm (castles, historic communities) in addition to its commercial significance (chemicals, basic materials). Cities on the Rhine consist of Fragrance and Dusseldorf. The major port is Rotterdam, which is Europe’s largest seaport.
2 The Rhone is most popular for its red wine. What could the world do without it? It was a highway for the Greeks and Romans. Cities on the Rhone consist of Lyon (the culinary capital of France), Avignon (famous for the folk song about the bridge and the papal royal residence), and Arles (home of VanGogh’s Yellow Residence)
3 The Po is Italy’s longest river. Cities on the river consist of: Milan, Ferrara, Cremona. “In the 17 th century, the Venetian Republic purposefully drew away the Po’s course southward to prevent the deposition of silt from filling the Venetian Lagoon.”
Increased glacier thaw is endangering Europe’s towns, rivers and economic climates
ESTIMATE OF THE MONTH
“Make your very own Bible. Select and gather all the words and sentences that in all your readings have actually been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin– then occasionally review, re-rank, and exchange your listing with those you love. I call this the “Orion Exchange” because 7 has to do with as many as any kind of human can absorb at a time. Game?
A LINK TO THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF POSTS ORGANIZED BY MOTIF:
PDF with headings– Google Drive
ACCESSORY BELOW:
# 1 A graphic overview to justice (9 metaphors on one web page).
# 2 39 Songs, Prayers, and Rhymes: the Keys to the Hearts of 7 Billion Individuals” — Adams Residence Elder Faculty Lounge Presentation, (11/ 17/ 20
NB: Palestine Orion (Decision)– let’s exchange Orions, let’s discover Rumi’s area (“Beyond all ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. Fulfill me there” Rumi, 13 century Persian Sufi mystic)
YOUR TURN
Please share the coolest point you found out in the recently connected to environment modification or the atmosphere.
Or the coolest, most important point you learned in your life related to climate change that the remainder of us may have missed out on. Your preferred chart or table probably …
This is your chance to make someone’s day. Or to cement in your own mind something that you may otherwise forget. Or to believe more deeply than or else about something dear to your heart.