Many areas of the nation are experiencing record high temperatures exacerbated by greenhouse gassing. Plainly the U.S. Government is too slow to respond to the challenge. It has failed to adapt with direct action to attempt remediation of high temperatures. People are likely to die when summer heat rises to more than 110F.
Some regulatory changes to encourage transition to electric cars instead of fossil fuel point source pollution emitters have been made, yet that isn’t sufficient. The problem is worse than the given responses could fix.
Science and technological applications would let practical remedies make experiencing the heat easier; such as cheaper air conditioning. Texas lacks a modern power grid as does Nevada to carry solar produced heat to market and around the heat belt. Liquid hydrogen to cool super-conducting power lines in a pipeline buried below ground would let no net loss transmission of electrons to primary distribution hubs. The concept isn’t new and it is still valid.
CRISPR genetic engineering of trees and forests to produce more wood with less pollutants being developed in North Carolina have opened the door to adapting new tech to biology and the ecosphere. Plainly the government should be looking for ways to design new heat and aridity tolerant forests and agriculture should they be needed to replace dying local habitats.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230713/Using-CRISPR-gene-editing-system-to-build-a-more-sustainable-forest.aspx
A massive desalinization plan should be developed right away to bring millions of gallons of fresh new water to the southwest. Saltwater siphoned/pumped with solar produced energy could fill a canal system with gates to let it evaporate in the sun with fresh water evaporating collected in transparent lids over the canals to run off in adjacent dual collecting channels. The U.S. Mexican border would be an excellent site to build the pipeline and canals as would the Salt Lake seasonally be a useful place to hold fresh water. Simply allowing a substantial percent of new fresh water to evaporate might increase cloud formation and cool off the S.W. a little.
The government of the United State should prioritize a way to end asphalt highways absorbing heat that is released at night increasing the misery index of select cities. Streets should be resurfaced with light reflecting material or even solar voltaic materials to produce power and increase the nation’s albedo. Because too little is done besides promulgating rhetoric the national heat reduction policy is failing to meet challenges to the national thermostat.
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