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moody, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years

Another orphan saved from the orphan crushing machine!

wrath-sedan, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years
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Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that dry and wet weather events have been made worse, or “juiced,” by climate change.
“The net effect is we do have much deeper extremes,” Dr. Hall said. “It’s boomier and bustier. People have used the word ‘whiplash’ before.”

When your climate change-induced natural disasters cancel each other out.

Murvel, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years

Non-paywalled version anyone?

Knusper, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years

Yesterday, I read an article¹, where it says in the context of this year’s astronomical ocean temperatures:

“The land tends to warm up more than the ocean, but if the ocean is so warm, you essentially start having very high temperatures and dry conditions because the ocean is evaporating and raining on itself,” Dr Bracco said.

As I understand this, normally it would rain near the coast, because that’s where the ocean would heat up the most, under pre-climate-change conditions. And that’s now out of wonk, generally leading to droughts.

Maybe California is for whatever reason in an inversed situation, where their rainfall likeliness is actually improved by the hot oceans…

¹ The article, very much not uplifting: www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/…/102701172

Deadeyegai, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years
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I guess it takes a tropical storm/hurricane to flood the region??

mean_bean279,

More of the wettest winter we’ve had on record in nearly 50 years. The tropical storm just finished off the remaining areas that were under a drought watch.

b000urns,
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Haha that’s what I was thinking

Trexman, to upliftingnews in California Is Free of Extreme Drought Conditions for the First Time in 3 Years

I thought this was a cheeky Onion headline at first.

HappycamperNZ,

Still surprised its not.

FfaerieOxide, to upliftingnews in F.D.A. Approves First Ever U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
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Opill is known as a “mini pill” because it contains only one hormone, progestin, in contrast to “combination” pills, which contain both progestin and estrogen. A company that makes a combination pill, Cadence Health, has also been in discussions with the F.D.A. about applying for over-the-counter status.

So good luck DIYing a transition with these. Progesterone will develop milk ducts but it won't make breasts grow.

Proxima_Centauri11, to upliftingnews in F.D.A. Approves First Ever U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill

Because this is paywalled, go to archive.ph and add it as a link! Then you can read it.

nix,
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archive.is/oPjro :)

We should get an archive bot.

The lemmy ui does make it easy to upload a link to multiple archive sites when making a thread though

Proxima_Centauri11,

We absolutely should! It does.

BadEngineering, to upliftingnews in F.D.A. Approves First Ever U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill

I'm so happy they explained how the price of the pill affects the cost of the pill. I never would have figured it out on my own.

stevehobbes,

Did they edit the story? I didn’t see that part.

eco,

The sub headline is:

The price of the pill, which has not been announced, will determine how affordable it will be when it becomes available in early 2024.

stevehobbes,

Interestingly, the actual article talks more about the impact of OTC medications not being covered by insurance. Which is a pretty big drawback.

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