Pardon me, but aren't deserts supposed to be dry? or did algore decree otherwise?
Couldn’t agree more. My response to the tree huggers who suggest we have any control over the climate is simply ‘how arrogant of you to think we could change nature’. I have also used ‘it is just the yin and yang of weather/climate’. Sometimes that gets the attention of the smug know-it-alls.
Stop hating Obama because he is black!
The Desert Southwest is supposed to be dry, punctuated by periods of flooding that keep the flora and fauna alive that have adapted to desert conditions. Writers should know something about the subject before sitting down to write this dreck.
It has always been known as the GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/chacocanyon.html
“Why would the Anasazi leave — potentially for good — pueblos it had taken them decades to construct? Scientists have found one possible answer by looking at tree rings (a study called dendrochronology) in the Sand Canyon area.
In the period between A.D. 1125 and 1180, very little rain fell in the region. After 1180, rainfall briefly returned to normal. From 1270 to 1274 there was another long drought, followed by another period of normal rainfall. In 1275, yet another drought began. This one lasted 14 years.
When this cycle of drought began, Anasazi civilization was at its height. Communities were densely populated. Even with good rains, the Anasazi were using their land to its limits. Without rain, it was impossible to grow enough food to support the population. Widespread famine occurred.
People left the area in large numbers to join other pueblo peoples to the south and east, abandoning the Chaco Canyon pueblos and, later, the smaller communities that surrounded them. Anasazi civilization began a long period of migration and decline after these years of drought and famine. By the 1300s, it had all but died out in Chaco Canyon.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith
It also appears to have been rather dry in the early 1800s. Jedediah Smith was killed by Comanches while searching for water in SW Kansas in 1831.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith
“may”, “might”, “some say”, “say some”, “possibly”, “could be”, de dah de dah de dah de dah.
The Weasel Words of the Propaganda Ministry.
We might be taken over by space aliens, some say. And the universe might implode into a purple hole, say some.
There! I did it! Read all about it! Convene a world convention of Orks to demand a new anti-Space Aliens tax!
They could be coming, right? And cats and dogs could start talking...Some Say!
Drought Conditions in Southwest May Be Here to Stay
Oh, horseshit!
Just random news and opinion.
Wow. They're getting one drop of rain per year per square mile instead of two drops.
And then again...maybe not!
Drought Conditions in Southwest May Be Here to Stay
Or not
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/drying-west/kunzig-text
Drying of the West, (February 2008), National Geographic, Kunzig, Robert.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D4EWHPU/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o02_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow, Ingram, B. Lynn, and Malamud-Roam, Frances, 2013, University of California Press
California will be okay after we get desperate enough to overrule the greenies about desalinization plants. Israel is producing all the fresh water it wants from those for $1,0000 per acre foot. California is presently using about 9 million acre feet of water for industrial use and personal consumption, so that would cost us only about $9 billion a year.
Agriculture is another matter. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and western Colorado will have to make do with the @ 3-4 million acre feet they'll be able to draw from a much reduced Colorado River. Pumping costs to get water from California, or over the Rocky Mountain Divide, will be ferocious.
Most people live out of their memories. A few live out of their imaginations.
Here’s a utube of the relationship between declining cost water and energy and the advance of technology for the last 250 years. Plus an imaginative look into the next 150 years.
Aren’t agricultural drought conditions worsened by human diversion of water to large cities?