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Dubai’s Costly Water World | The city has spent billions of dollars to provide fresh water to its residents and tourist attractions, but experts say the efforts are straining the Persian Gulf (www.nytimes.com)
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If no immediate action is taken to counter the harm, desalination, in combination with climate change, will increase the Gulf’s coastal waters temperature by at least five degrees Fahrenheit across more than 50 percent of the area by 2050, according to a 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on ScienceDirect, a site for peer-reviewed papers.

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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

closed system, the less water there is to disperse heat energy it gains from sunlight/underwater vents, the more heat energy the water retains. it's basic mathematics.

[-] deur@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago

It seems like you do not know how the water cycle works, even though you posted about this theory twice.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

yes, please do explain about the water cycle in and off a desert peninsula surrounded for thousands of miles by nothing but salt water and deserts. you're only going to need to explain it to me once though, lol, don't forget the thermodyanics

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