Global Warming Could Increase Western States Water Woes

Space Daily ^ | February 18, 2003 | L. Ruby Leung

[GOP_1900AD]

My very Western property is experiencing water woes alright.... I have not been able to mow for nearly one week due to nearly continuous rainfall! [Hey Grampa Dave, how are your water woes? Have you pulled your loved ones into that ark yet? ;)]

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Paulus Invictus]

Several states claim that this past winter has been the coldest in years. Are the glaciers returning soon? I need to prepare to move to Guatemala or Costa Rica.

[petercooper]

Last time I checked, the Pacific has plenty of water. Run some pipe and desalinate it.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[cogitator]

My very Western property is experiencing water woes alright.... I have not been able to mow for nearly one week due to nearly continuous rainfall!

That happened to us out East this summer.

The report doesn't indicate less precipitation; it may indicate more (hard to tell from the article). It indicates less snow, earlier spring melt, and higher snowlines. Because snowpack is where water is stored, that means a trend of less water in the western and Pac NW mountains.

[KC_for_Freedom]

I'm glad this guy has a model, but I suggest he take the next fifty years and trty to validate the model. Then we can see if the weather and model agree.

Till then, let the market rule the water use and there will be lots of water. Continue to let government regulate it and there will be shortages.

[Calvin Locke]

NASA? I have yet to see it shed it's PC style.

Heck, even then, the bureaucrats will just take the data out of context in the hopes of more funding.

I misplaced the link to that drunk weaving and stumbling down a highway, captioned: "His average position is between the lanes of traffic".

[vpintheak]

Yep, its been a really warm winter everywhere in the US this year. Voodoo science.

[.cnI redruM]

Or it could not increase then, but wouldn't that make for a boring research paper that wouldn't bring in a dime of future grant money.

[eleni121]

Let's hope. Global warming sounds good especially this year where in western NY we've had zero or below zero straight for a month.

[GOP_1900AD]

Last year we skied until Memorial Day and could have gone on until the 4th of July if the resorts did not arbitrarily close. Gunning for a repeat this year. Sorry bud, once again, throwing chicken little onto my hot, smokin', CO2 wafting grill! Siiiiizzzzzzzzlllllllle.

[William Terrell]

Could and Would and Maybe,
A weaseling we shall go,
To catch the varmint is easy,
You just nail his ass to the floor.

[metesky]

A quick run through the internet shows you to be correct and I wrong.

Now I know. Thanks. :O)

[Consort]

Deep dowsing.

[B4Ranch]

"why would anyone respect a 50 year forecast?"

The United Nations will be in total control then. Maybe they can figure out what to do.

[Calamari]

A few more

Global Warming Could have no effect on Western States Water Woes

Global Cooling Could have no effect on Western States Water Woes

Just maybe Global Warming or Global Cooling are the result of foces that humans can not significantly influence.

"<Sarcasm on] What effect do you want the model to show? We can "adjust" for the desired political impact. Just a few lines of code to edit.</Sarcasm]

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[graycamel]

Hmm... 2 degree celsius difference. That's 3.6 degrees fahrenheit. So only in areas where the temperature is now 28.4 degrees or warmer will it be 32 degrees in 50 years. That's not much since the mountains are tall. I guess only the foothills will be really affected, if at all. It once reached -45 in Truckee. Wow, it could warm to -41.4

[cogitator]

A quick run through the internet shows you to be correct and I wrong.

Krakatoa got all the media attention (I have the recent book published about it, but I haven't read it yet), but Tambora was the big one, at least in recorded history.

If you want to know about the really big one, check out what the Internet says about the Toba eruption, and then take a look at this map:

Lake Toba is the caldera from the Toba eruption. It's 1700 square km and 450 m deep. Now THAT's a caldera.