Posted on 07/27/2014 8:36:23 PM PDT by blam
Pete Saunders, The Corner Side Yard
July 27, 2014
drought monitor UNL
Debates still persist about the impact of climate change, but from my perspective, the early results are in. We are now reaching the point where cities, metro areas and states will have to consider taking bold and assertive measures to even maintain their current quality of life levels. And we are also reaching the point at which alternate futures for our cities must be considered.
That future could very well mean fewer people in the dry West and coastal areas of the East and South, and more people in the comparatively water-rich Midwest. And if you're looking for a historical analogy that could illustrate the change, look no further than the 1930s-era Dust Bowl.
East of the Rockies, and particularly here in the Midwest, the summer has been cool and wet. Meanwhile, all of California has been suffering from severe to exceptional drought conditions, with the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma not far behind. Texas was certainly in the drought bullseye last year, and while conditions have improved the state is not out of the woods yet.
Is this a harbinger of things to come? It's probably safe to say that exceptional drought conditions won't stay in California forever, just as conditions have eased in Texas this year. But the persistence of conditions conducive to drought may turn water into an increasing dwindling resource, rather than a renewable one, over time.
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The only thing in the article I disagree with is the strong implication the drought is the result of human activity. No way! There have been many serious droughts in in the SW, some lasting hundreds of years determined by geological records. This one could be bad -- there's really no way to predict. But all this AGW (Al Gore Warming) nonsense is just that. Climate change is a feature of life on Earth.
There are more trees in North America now than there were in 1491.
Stop confusing people with facts and logic!
‘They also have not built any dams or reservoirs for decades.’
A huge part of the problem. Such things cause environmentalists to have fits though. How dare we alter the natural environment...
If it means fewer people in Alabama, hey, I’m good! More room for me.
I agree 100%.
I didn't much care for the La Brea tar pits tour though.
I didn’t much care for the La Brea tar pits tour though.
The La Brea tar pits suck.
meanwhile in pa the farms seem to grow endless acres of corn to be used for gasoline additives and not food.
Gee it’s too bad we don’t have modern technology that could produce all the drinking and irrigation water we need from the ocean...............................oh wait! Do these doomsayers ever think before they write or do they honestly believe that everyone is stupid?
That requires cheap electricity... and some idiot in Washington decided to get rid of that.
As I saw it the moron writer was using climate change caused drought as his theory, desalination whether by expensive or cheap electricity still exposes him as a fool.
Noted that myself. Southwestern Colorado has been getting hammered all summer with rain. This after a snowpack of up to 200 percent of normal in some basins. And the year before that was wet as well. And yet, we’re still supposedly in a drought, because it was dry two winters back?
Those maps are bs.
A narrow deep lake versus a broad shallow lake.
How much land is needed affects cost and you have to take somebody's land. The cost of the dam goes up. The longer the dam, the more ancient river beds there are which increases the risk of dam failure, which requires more soil testing, which isn't fullproof. The broad shallow lakes also silt up faster.
There are a number of these broad shallow lakes in west Texas which are presently bone dry. And Dallas is planning on building one.
OTOH, there is room for two more dams on the Colorado River but they would be in the Grand Canyon.
I’m normal! who knew...
Yes, to the point that some think that's why certain cultures here died out.
Now THAT I believe. I watch the nat’l radar nearly every day to see where it is raining, and the areas that are supposedly under severe drought according to Droughtmonitor are getting good rain up to 3 times a week.
They’re pushing their crap because they are pushing global warming. And God is mocking them for it by sending rain, sometimes right where the drought is supposedly the worst, as He is right this minute.
The Palmer algorithm is from the 60’s, before AGW corrupted the science. They have developed new AGW ones to use for their scare campaign, yet still publish the Palmer index??? Because it’s more accurate, of course.
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