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| The US West - 16 Years of Drought | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 24 2016, 12:38 AM (1,007 Views) | |
| Stoned | Mar 24 2016, 11:50 PM Post #11 |
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Don't read this it is far too compicated for you and will just give you a headache, and destroy your preconcieved notions. Best you stay in the fantasy world you have created. Much more comfortable for you and what you think matters not anyway |
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| Stoned | Mar 24 2016, 11:51 PM Post #12 |
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Had to give you a chance to think. Now, are you ready? Remember, I advised you not to read this. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140819-groundwater-california-drought-aquifers-hidden-crisis/ |
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| Neutral | Mar 24 2016, 11:55 PM Post #13 |
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It took you twice to get the link posted and you are insulting my intelligence? lol |
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| Thumper | Mar 24 2016, 11:57 PM Post #14 |
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Excellent point! |
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| Stoned | Mar 25 2016, 12:16 AM Post #15 |
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I would never do that. I am merely looking after your welfare. (non gevernment of course) |
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| Stoned | Mar 25 2016, 12:22 AM Post #16 |
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If half the country is of no concern, how much will it take to get your attention? |
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| Pat | Mar 25 2016, 01:06 AM Post #17 |
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When I read posts from some who downplay the serious nature of droughts, I shake my head in wonder. Lives are lost, businesses destroyed, food prices go up and the danger of fires go way up--just to name a few affects. A lack of fresh drinking water is the number one threat to health world wide. How do you enjoy those through the roof meat prices at the grocery story? Same with milk and dairy products? You can thank drought conditions for them or lack of irrigation water. |
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| Unnamed Source | Mar 25 2016, 01:11 AM Post #18 |
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Droughts come and go. The one in the south west that is hitting California hard may go away for a while or it might stay for a long long time. Researchers say it could last 200 years. They also say that the 20th century was a particularly wet period and not the norm. Most of California's infrastructure (and the entire southwest for that matter) was built during that time frame. Now the lack of planning is hitting home. People will have to adapt. People will have to choose better crops that will grow with less water. People will have to use technology to get water that isn't normally available in arid regions. We live in a world that is ever changing. A world with cycles, some long, some short. We have excelled in the late (10,000) year warming period. We have advanced technologically during that period and we will use that technology and knowledge to adapt as the climate cycles go towards more extremes, mostly the inevitable march toward another ice age. In the far future we will probably even be able to control our environment. The worst thing we can do is allow the climate and our environment to be used as a political tool. |
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| Neutral | Mar 25 2016, 01:29 AM Post #19 |
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No one is saying a drought is not bad, but we do contest the allegation that it was going to get much worse. |
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| Berton | Mar 25 2016, 02:23 AM Post #20 |
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Pat, I have lived through several serious droughts, I know more about what they do and do not do than anyone on this board. I have never downplayed the seriousness of them. What I do downplay is the sky is falling attitude of Brewster when the drought data itself shows him so very wrong. This country is so big and located such that there will nearly always be some part of the country in some state of drought. From slight to extreme. That is a fact. They come and they go just as they have for millennia. Look up the history of the Anasazi's. Was it global warming which drove them from their homes or just another drought in a long list of droughts in that part of the country? |
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