Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
If it's happened before, relatively recently, then it could happen again.
Sere in memory ping.
Can they predict the weather for 2 weeks though?
The Mexican government will never stand for this. Expect demands for the US to properly irrigate the region for its new Aztlan overlords.
Um.... is it just me, or... does a 15% reduction in river flow, in the midst of a 1200 year drought... not seem like THAT big a deal???
That’s what happened to the Anasazi.
Wait wait wait...
Are they saying the weather comes & goes? I’m wondering, what kind of SUVs did people drive medieval times?
Since then Arizona has become dependent on ground water, which has been showing signs of failure for years, and more recently Colorado River water, at great expense.
The Colorado depends on runoff from the mountains. If the snowpack begins to fail consistently, so does AZ, and Southern California. Despite the impression from the term 'drought,' it is snow, not rain, that drives the desert civilization.
Those medieval droughts were no doubt caused by automobiles and washing machines.
Globull Warming has proven to be not that accepted by the peons. Maybe “high temperatures and lengthy dry spells” will work better.
I need to get a job as a climatologist. Only job I can think of where I can be wrong 99% of the time and not get fired.
Maybe they should have learned something from the Anasazi ruins and not built in a desert.
Cancun endgame: Kyoto II or climate talks of the living dead?
Cancun Climate Protesters Throw Feces, Destroy Property
Global Warming on Free Republic
And then again, they might not.
A worst-case scenario devised by US researchers shows that the American southwest could experience a 60-year stretch of heat and drought unseen since the 12th century.Thanks decimon.
The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
The avg. flow of the Colorado through the Grand Canyon was 85,000CFS during the month of June, before the dams. Presently, due to the dams, it is about 30,000 CFS.
Max. flood (flushing) is 250,000 CFS.
At Page, AZ., the river gage fluctuates daily, due to hydroelectric requirements, from 4,000 to 8,000 CFS.
The present use of water from these river systems is agricultural and hydroelectric.
I don’t know for sure, but I think if you change the crops (no corn or cotton)and add solar, you wouldn’t notice a drought.
Essentially the SW has been in a 10,000 year drought (since the end of the ice age). If that drought ends, then we are in big trouble.
