Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2025-01-05 20:56, D wrote:

  On Sun, 5 Jan 2025, Carlos E.R. wrote:
 

On 2025-01-04 16:58, TJ wrote:

On 2025-01-03 20:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/01/2025 18:37, -hh wrote:

On 1/3/25 11:43 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/01/2025 16:31, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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On 03/01/2025 13:32, -hh wrote:

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I don't know much about sea level changes. I live about 250 miles from the sea, so I don't have to deal with it. But that doesn't mean I can deny the changes in the climate right here where I live.
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I'm a farmer, the third generation of my family to own and operate this small chunk of the world. Among other crops, we have raised vegetables and sold them on a roadside farm stand since 1962. We have records going back most of that time, with small notes about things like the weather.
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50 years ago, while there were exceptions (there are ALWAYS exceptions when taking about weather trends), we could pretty much count on the first killing frost happening between September 20 and the 25th.
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The last 10 years or so, that event has moved to October 5-10. And in 2024, the first killing frost was on October 25th.
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So the climate IS changing. I've watched it do so. But is it natural, or man-made? In my layman's opinion, it's probably both. The basic mechanism is probably natural, augmented by Man's contribution.
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But what can we do about it? Little of any significance, unless we are willing to take drastic measures - kill off about half the human population, give up modern power-hungry technology, that sort of thing.

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Same way we changed it, we can change it back. We'll die if we don't.
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I'm not willing to do that, and I don't think anyone else is, either. So what I'll do is continue to take advantage of the changes that are happening, adapting as best I can.
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I can now grow fruits and vegetables that I couldn't dream of 50 years ago. Better, long-season varieties that I couldn't grow when I was a kid. For now, the climate is changing toward being better, here. That won't last, but it'll probably last longer than I do.

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You are fortunate. In my area, the climate has gone desert like and crops die because there is not enough water. The increased energy in the system means storms are stronger, even devastating. They often destroy crops.

 The sad thing is that you are surrounded by water on 3 sides, yet insist on not building out enormous deslination plants powered by solar that would solve all problems.

Where do you get that idea? A lot of the water in my area comes from desalinization.

Another fix would be to fix water leakage in southern spain. I've heard that 40% of the water is wasted in leaks in the system.

That is in some cities. The average is 15%.
<https://theobjective.com/espana/2023-08-12/perdida-agua-averias-fugas-comunidades/>

A third story I heard, was that Franco was well aware of potential water shortage and have plans to build out dams and irrigation. Sadly when socialists came to power and Franco died, all this was forgotten.

No, it wasn't. Simply all the places where damns were feasible had been used.

The lack of water in spain is 100% fixable. All it takes is science, technology and political will.

Not really.
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Cheers, Carlos.