"Iowa flooding could be man’s fault, experts say - one professor says" -
Gorebot?
Posted on 06/19/2008 11:04:51 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn't really all that natural. He points out that the heavy rains fell on a landscape radically reengineered by humans. Plowed fields have replaced tallgrass prairies. Fields have been meticulously drained with underground pipes. Streams and creeks have been straightened. Most of the wetlands are gone. Flood plains have been filled and developed.
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It’s not the farming, it’s the levees. Levees build up water levels by limiting the flow of water to certain paths. More levees, more flooding.
Why don’t they just come right out and say it. Everyone take a gun to himself and his family. The world is better off without humans!
Geez!!
Prairies have always flooded. Which is something the Professor apparently does not know.
Well, humans created the liberal modern day Democrat party too.
At least flooding is natural....
It’s rain.
Man is putting to much water vapor into the air. That causes rain.
There are no men on mars, and there is no flooding either.
We seem to be getting “100 year floods” more frequently - 3 in the last 40 years - 2 in the last 9.
How long before it’s Bush’s Fault?
Has Al Gore announced that the flooding is Bush’s fault yet?
"Iowa flooding could be man’s fault, experts say - one professor says" -
Gorebot?
Humans are a part of nature and blessed with the ability to reason to boot. (well most of us are)
We can't change nature, destroy it or control it for we are a part of it.
It certainly can be employed as a money maker and in some cases a claim to fame by some humans but not brought down by humans.
What do you expect from a displaced Iranian? I wonder since he has a degree in Agricultural Enginneering if he really has ever farmed in the Midwest. At his age, I somewhat doubt it ... book learning is probably all he knows.
His tenure at Ohio State was somewhat controversial to say the least and somehow, he is now at the University of Northern Iowa where he has become an expert on Iowa farming. Sheesh!
Gosh, maybe a flood here and there from time to time isn't such a bad thing. ; )
This Enshayan clown is on the city council here; his idea of an acceptable place to build is *nowhere*. He's routinely the only vote on the council against any development project - he really seems to see humanity as a cancer.
Don't go overboard. Start small, and slowly work up, until an acceptable equilibrium is reached.
Who knows? Just removing the envirowhacks & Lib politicians might be enough to restore order & balance.
“environmental center”
So, what’s this “expert” and “expert” of? Anything?
The better use, one that most people are now using, is the 1% flood probability rather than calling it a 100 year flood.
Every year you have a 1% chance of having the flood formerly known as a one-hundred year flood.
Another Liberal. (Pssst, Liberal, do you live in a cave? If not.. you re helping with this FLOODING.)
Yeah, Iowa is filling up with a lot of liberal eco-nuts
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