[Jeff Chandler]

We're not worried. We have Colorado River water:

[Vince Ferrer]

I've got it. Move everyone currently in Detroit to LA, and everyone currently in LA to Detroit. People in LA can pay their water bills, but they don't have any water. If they were in Detroit, they would have water.

On the other hand, people in Detroit have an abundance of water, but they don't pay their bills. So move them to LA. They still won't pay, but there isn't any water anyway.

[hinckley buzzard]

The Southwest had a serious drought of ten years through the '40's, and more, and no one even remembers. These people trade in drivel.

[cherry]

"progress" in our culture means chopping down more trees to make room for strip malls or new expansive housing developements...

I'm all for people having choices but the deforestation has got to be having an impact on the ability of the ground to hold water....

[17th Miss Regt]

Right where the illegals are invading.

[PGR88]

In the 1930’s, 25% of US population was in agriculture, and many of those were poor, small share-croppers. One or two bad crops due to a dust-bowl meant they were bankrupt - and the Okies were quickly on the way to California and the NW.

The US population now involved in farming is between 1-2%. We’ve already turned the desert into huge population centers.

The notion of another “dust bowl migration” is a nonsense idea.

[Fiji Hill]

Second Dust Bowl migration? My grandfather migrated from his home in Nebraska to western Colorado during the dust bowl in the region that began to form in 1890. There was a song popular at that time that was sung to the tune of the hymn "Beulah Land":

Nebraska land, Nebraska land,
Upon thy burning soil I stand.
I look away across the plains
And wonder why it never rains;
I look away across the plains
And wonder why it never rains.

[tumblindice]

‘Instant water’: just add ...
It’s tasty too!

[Free Vulcan]

The Drought Monitor is a complete crock of shiite. It is not dry in places where they say it is.

[fifedom]

From the original article” “I’m no scientist, and certainly no climate expert.”

Right. This article is a load of cr*p.

Here in CA, if the wackados that run the state government were not flushing water in the rivers to save the endangered snail darter, there would be enough water to go around. They also have not built any dams or reservoirs for decades.

The idiots on the coasts that control the state are all for the farmers and people in the central valley to use less water. That is until they run out of their organic arugula. Moonbeam called a water emergency and said people should conserve. But LA and Frisco have only dropped water usage a few percent or even used more water.

[Valpal1]

And yet the Palmer Drought Index tells a different tale.

[Jemian]

If it means fewer people in Alabama, hey, I’m good! More room for me.

[kvanbrunt2]

meanwhile in pa the farms seem to grow endless acres of corn to be used for gasoline additives and not food.

[familyop]

U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/sdo_summary.html

[Mastador1]

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?

[familyop]

"That future could very well mean fewer people in the dry West and coastal areas of the East and South"

He tossed "coastal areas of the East and South" right in there with the West. Not likely except for the Texas Gulf Coast. Kansas continues to suffer from drought. And parts of the West (Northwest) that aren't as dry as other parts started getting some epic snow dumps and ice blows. Higher elevations of the central Rockies above southern CO have been getting drenched all summer with constant cloud cover (very odd). Might be an extremely interesting winter.

[PATRIOT1876]

I doubt anything that is said in this article because they have disqualified themselves from any credibility by using the words “climate change” as if that means anything.