Comments by "Old Scientist" (@OldScientist) on "Panama Canal suffering major disruption | BBC News" video.

  1. That's it, Auntie Beeb, get the propaganda in. Severely factors are affecting the Panama Canal. It is the dry season and this has been exasperated by El Niño (both natural events). However there is the management of the lakes that supply water and the canal itself. Also the population has increased by a factor of 5 since 1950, and personal income, and along with it water consumption has ballooned. The water supply comes from the very same lakes that supply the canal. Then mention the Amazon. To assuage your fear of drought can I point out from the latest research "precipitation extremes during the preinstrumental nineteenth century indicate that recent floods and droughts on the Amazon River may have not yet exceeded the range of natural hydroclimatic variability." (Granato-Souza and Stahle, 2023). And let's take a moment to remember The “Forgotten Drought” of 1865, plus "the recent river-level extremes on the Amazon may have been equaled or possibly exceeded during the preinstrumental nineteenth century."
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