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EngagingData OP t1_j5uh2oi wrote

California’s snow pack is essentially another “reservoir” that is able to store water in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Graphing these things together can give a better picture of the state of California’s water and the current conditions of drought. The recent atmospheric rivers have increased storage in reservoirs and snow in California immensely.

Click here to view interactive version that is updated daily.

Converting snowpack water content (measured in inches of water at 120 different snow sensor sites in the Sierras) into a total volume of water was done by correlating snow sensor data with an estimated the volume of the Sierra snow from 2016 journal article (Margulis et al). See link for more info.

Sources and Tools

Snow and reservoir data is downloaded from the California Data Exchange Center website of the California Department of Water Resources using a python script. The data is processed in javascript and visualized here using HTML, CSS and javascript and the open source Plotly javascript graphing library.

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InfiniteDuckling t1_j5uec03 wrote

It's a bad implication though.

Wood burning causes CO2. As does burning coal, which occurred in individual homes, not just factories. Low income people had access to fires long before industrialization. Obviously that's not reflected in the graph - likely because it's hard to track that - so the data is suspect.

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tajmer t1_j5udkrg wrote

Why do you pay extra for calling foreign numbers?
Ironically if I call foreign EU numbers from my country ( Croatia ) they’ll charge me some ridiculous price like 0.6€ per minute, bit if i ride like 50km and cross border to Slovenia and connect to their network all my calls within EU are free

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trisul-108 t1_j5tz6bt wrote

This is completely irrelevant. Ukraine is a sovereign nation, member of the UN, recognised as such by Russia and entitled to its territorial integrity. Russia has also signed a formal agreement never to move militarily against Ukraine and filed it with the UN.

The annexations and invasions are all illegal. There is no way around this.

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MatoKoukku t1_j5tyzll wrote

>Both graphs are necessary to understand the whole problem. The suggested one and this one. A third one with income distribution over the world would aso be good.

Exactly. People need to understand both relative (per capita) and absolute shares of emissions. They also need to understand, you cant compare things exactly 1:1, but that relative and absolute shares are useful to look at on national and income group basis.

After that one can ponder as to the reasons for discrepancies, often they are related to energy/economic trajectories. Countries with a lot of fossil fuels stand separately for example. Not the only, but maybe the biggest separator when it comes to relative shares. Then we have a lot of cultural factors.

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