NEW DELHI TO MUNICH TO BARCELONA

 From NBC News:

New satellite images from NASA show how Lake Mead's shoreline has mineralized and the water level has fallen over the past 22 years. It now sits at just 27% capacity. The largest reservoir in the country, on the Nevada-Arizona border, is nearly unrecognizable, a “stark illustration of climate change,” according to NASA.

 

Read the full story here.

What is particularly frightening is the change from 2021 to 2022.  The lake actually filled to capacity in 1983 and 1999.  However, today the level equals the lowest point since April of 1937 when it was first being filled.  According to NASA:

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

Today is nostalgia day, and I again insert two postings from an around the world trip I started on 17 January 2010.  I quote from my blog that day:

Today, I begin my journey. I will visit Seoul, Hanoi and other parts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand, New Delhi, Barcelona, Munich, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, DC, New York City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I will keep you informed.)

Today, I won't just copy those postings here.  Should you wish to read them, click on those titles.  The New Delhi stop was especially noteworthy, reporting on my entry into India.  In particular, read the comments.  The title tells the whole story:

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INDIA SUCKS...*

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FROM DELHI TO MUNICH TO BARCELONA

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I myself commented on the second posting.  Herewith:

The Japanese Nikkei and American Dow Jones were about equal on that day in 2010.  

• Yesterday the Nikkei was at 27,655, while the Dow was at 31,751.  
• Also interesting is that the Nikkei was at 26,613 on 22 March 1991, about the same as what it is today 30 years later!
• However around that time in 1991 the Dow was just below 3,000!  Thus the Dow jumped by more than factor of 10 in 30 years, while the Japan's Nikkei is back to where it was in 1991.
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  Actually, it's worse than that.  At the end of 1989 the Nikkei reached an all-time high of 38,916.  And it's even more terrible than that, for if you had purchased a whole bunch of Japanese company stocks in 1989 for a million dollars, the value would have dropped 30 years later to $689,000.  But the inflation rate value would further have lowered the value by at least a factor of two, or those stocks today would be worth $344,485.

I got only two comments to the second posting, the one where I traveled from New Delhi to Munich to Barcelona.  Here they are:

Your dining in Lufthansa first class does sound like a record in airborne decadence. I hope EH does not see this blog because it will blow your cover!

Leighton

February 12, 2010 at 8:51 AM 

Unknown said...

Hi your Stewardess Emma is my lovely niece - I am delighted that you mentioned her and how well she represents the charm of the Irish and that she is good at her job - she sent me the link so is obviously very proud herself !

Enjoy - rgds Cathy Reynolds

February 23, 2010 at 3:29 AM 

I was on the verge of inserting a third posting, my first day in Barcelona:  I LOVE BARCELONA.  But I won't because one of the photos was definitely provocative, and could stir up some turmoil, as INDIA SUCKS did.  I do include a photo of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, which comes from my blog entitled FASCINATING BARCELONA.  Construction began in 1882 and was projected to be completed in 2026.  Well, they gave up on that date.

I close with my Blood Lily bloom at one week.  Over the next couple of weeks, there should be at least six, and maybe more flowers.  I gave three of them away to residents here, so they, too, should be on the verge of watching their Blood Lily bloom.

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