While Baja and Southern California receive torrential rain, a 100 year drought snarls traffic, with 200 cargo ships waiting to pass, through the Panama Canal because there’s not enough fresh water to fill the channel from freshwater lakes.

Climate change will affect us in ways we can’t imagine. We must end fossil fuel subsidies and new drilling now.

@georgetakei I wonder how much added water the new canal requires vs. the old one and if that’s also a factor?
@georgetakei @mbulkeley considering how much bigger it is with much larger locks (and fewer of them to boot)... yeah, that's a major factor. Maybe they'll have to restrict travel to the old canal only and leave the new one shut down. That'll mess with transport costs as those newer ships now have to go a helluva lot longer trip