Posted on 12/12/2013 4:17:43 PM PST by CedarDave
Rising Rio Grande Basin temperatures, already increasing faster than at any time in more than 10,000 years, are projected to sap the basin of one-third of its surface water supply by the end of the century, according to a new report by federal scientists.
“It is sobering,” said Assistant Secretary of the Interior Anne Castle, who was in Albuquerque on Wednesday morning for the release of the Upper Rio Grande Impact Assessment, done by a team of scientists from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Corps of Engineers and Sandia National Laboratories.
The study projected average temperature increases of 4 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the 21st century, with decreasing snowpack, increased evaporation and shrinking river flows converging on federal, state and local water management institutions. “That has ripple effects throughout the system,” Castle told a group of area water managers and community members Wednesday.
The assessment is the latest and most detailed in a series of analyses that have all come to the same conclusion: that rising greenhouse gases, which are driving up temperatures and changing the region’s climate in other ways, are likely to cause substantial reductions in the region’s already skimpy water supplies.
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The old maps said Great American Desert but they changed the name so they could sell the land.
It’s all those Gila Monster lizards pissing in the Rio Grande that is raising the water temperature.
Must establish a “No Pissing Zone” ASAP.
To #9: I thought that was a scene from “2001” but in white.
Actually wish it was the final resting place of Obamacare.
Later
“By the end of the century” was their answer in the last century, though it didn’t come to pass.
And the only thing that can stop it is RAISING YOUR TAXES
And IF Lake Estes drained into the Rio Grande River.
We are told by experts that in the American southwest, the Mesa Verde area was settled by 400 AD. The Anasazi inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300, and the settlements dried up and became uninhabited due to climate change that made agriculture unsustainable.
Was this the climate change in question?
projected average temperature increases of 4 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the 21st century ...
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These so-called government scientists can’t even predict the weather a year from now; yet they want to impose regulations based on their predictions for what the temperature will be 88 years from now!
Is there anyone working for this Obama Admin. who has a lick of common sense or knowledge of what the scientific method entails? (rhetorical)
And most significantly, also no fear of being around in 87 years to be called to account. The penalties for misrepresentation and fraud really need to be strengthened. How many of these "scientists" conspired to conceal meetings and to withhold activity subject to the FOIA laws?
There is evidence that New Mexico and surrounding areas experience a 300-year drought cycle, and that we may be headed into that cycle again. Tell me again, who was responsible for the greenhouse gasses 300 years ago?
The first time I saw the Rio Grande in El Paso was over 30 years ago. The great news minds reported, “Illegal immigrants were swimming the Great River in the North to escape from Mexico into the US.” Well, little children waded waist high in the mighty river.
It’s dry now. The Rio Grande curves north to Colo at Las Cruces, NM. There’s been no water in it for two or three years.
In the Albuquerque metro area, it's flowing about how you describe Las Cruces from 30 years ago.
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