Posted on 08/15/2019 8:37:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire restrictions unnecessary. But the wet weather can be misleading.
Climate change means the region is still getting drier and hotter.
“It only demonstrates the wide swings we have to manage going forward,” James Eklund, former director of the Upper Colorado River Commission, an interstate agency that ensures river water is doled out properly, said earlier this year. “You can put an ice cube — even an excellent ice cube — in a cup of hot coffee, but eventually it’s going to disappear.”
For the seven states relying on the Colorado River, which carries melted snow from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, that means a future with increasingly less water for farms and cities.
Climate scientists say it’s hard to predict how much less. The river supplies 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming as well as a $5-billion-a-year agricultural industry. …
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It is a bitch when the actual climate does not cooperate with your climate agenda!
Climate change is a cult.
A critical element of the belief system of a cult is that its claims are subject to the fallacy of unfalsifiability.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/178/Unfalsifiability
My TV was on youtube and started running an old program about Glacier Park and they said the glaciers would be gone by 2020. I laughed my butt off. Oops, they are growing.
It just shows how ignorant they are. They wake up in a new world every day, like it has NEVER been hot before. That glaciers have never melted and refrozen. That there have always been really cold years and then really hot years, wet years and dry years. None caused by man.
Mead up 4 feet from this time last year, Powell inflow 129% of normal.
Tearing down dozens of dams by demonkikkRAT govs, and letting all the fresh rainwater and snowmelt, flow to the sea, MIGHT have something to do with why there’s a water shortage, rationing, higher prices and why it’s been drier and hotter over the past few decades.
Leftist climate-wacko idiots.
Au contraire! A wet winter, much like a dry winter, definitively confirms climate change!
Climate change is the world's most perfect theory, in that all outcomes confirm the theory's validity.
FYI, it is no longer “climate change” it is the more alarmist “climate emergency.”
Can a Desert actually have a drought? Let’s see.....
“A desert is a region of land that is very dry because it receives low amounts of precipitation (usually in the form of rain, but it may be snow, mist or fog), often has little coverage by plants, and in which streams dry up unless they are supplied by water from outside the area.”
Why no.
Oh yeah.......and my paltry bank account means I’m a billionaire too.....
If only Trump got as many second chances as climate change.
“Climate change is the world’s most perfect theory, in that all outcomes confirm the theory’s validity.”
BANG! Got ‘em...Well said...
Mead is still lower than it was in 2017. I go to Lake Mead and Lake Powell on alternating years and have been doing so for many years. There is no question that water levels are way down. The first time I went to Lake Mead was in 1999 and the water level was almost all the way up to the block wall on the back of the Temple Bar Resort property. Now it is about a half mile drive down an incredibly long boat ramp to get to the water. When you are about 150 feet low, then 4 feet don’t mean much. But I’ll take it.
The woman author buys into this crap...a record-setting wet winter means the climate is “still getting drier and hotter.”
These people are laughably insane.
What more evidence do you need of climate change? Don't forget, all that huge water flow is incontrovertible evidence that the climate is getting drier.
It all comes back Joe Biden’s recent statement that the Democrats have “chosen truth over facts”.
They have chosen the “truth” of climate change as their narrative.
Any pesky facts you may have about temperate, rainfall, or any meteorological evidence at all that you may come up with is insignificant in comparison to the “truth” of climate change.
It is amazing to see facts bent like this.
I hope it continues at this rate. Time will tell.
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