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Climate change could end California farming: Chu
Reuters ^ | February 4, 2009

Posted on 02/04/2009 1:27:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu warned climate change could wipe out California's farms by the end of the century by destroying snowpack that supplies vital water to the nation's top agriculture state, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.

In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said his home state would suffer some of the most devastating effects of global warming if the nation did not act to slow its advance.

"I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen," Chu told the newspaper. "We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California.

"I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going," he added.

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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globaloney; theendisnear
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1 posted on 02/04/2009 1:27:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nobel Prize-winning...

Wow, he has the same prize as Assar Arafat. He MUST be smart. Or, a terrorist.

2 posted on 02/04/2009 1:29:21 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, that’s good. I’m sick and tired of California advertising IN WISCONSIN how great their dairy production is. Their tax money is well spent here.


3 posted on 02/04/2009 1:29:58 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Limbaugh/Palin 2012)
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To: Puppage

Goracle has one too.


4 posted on 02/04/2009 1:30:22 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Limbaugh/Palin 2012)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

. . and what is going to happen to India as our climate ‘changes’?


5 posted on 02/04/2009 1:31:04 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I presume the Secretary of Ag is also saying we’re doomed and gonna die within the year?


6 posted on 02/04/2009 1:31:15 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“”I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen,” Chu told the newspaper. “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California. “

We’ll just buy our food from Northern Canada, Alaska and the North Pole.

Not a problem.


7 posted on 02/04/2009 1:31:21 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: Indy Pendance

I agree. We can trade them a dump truck full of snow for each cow.


8 posted on 02/04/2009 1:31:48 PM PST by tractorman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This arse-hole should be worried about those snow banks failing to melt and drying up as a source of water... after all the real science shows we are headed into a global cooling phase! Climate change has been with us since GOD made the Earth... and we see this happen in most places about four times each year! If kalifornicate wants to kill itself, let it do so without costing the other 49 States a single penny!

LLS

9 posted on 02/04/2009 1:32:11 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ...
The Nobel Prize has become a joke. Period.

 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

10 posted on 02/04/2009 1:33:17 PM PST by steelyourfaith (BO has been POTUS two weeks and I still have to buy my gas and pay my mortgage. What's up with that?)
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To: tractorman

California is so 80’s.


11 posted on 02/04/2009 1:33:34 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Limbaugh/Palin 2012)
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Climate change could end California farming: Chu

"Or not." -- Marty_Fierro

12 posted on 02/04/2009 1:33:48 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Climate change could end California farming: Chu

This man needs to be challenged with the real science by a non-agendized scientist.

It's so shameful that somebody of science can be stripped of a conscience and integrity by an agenda and politics.
13 posted on 02/04/2009 1:34:09 PM PST by adorno
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To: Puppage

Many Nobel prize are given based on political considerations, i.e. how to serve liberal policies, including the scientific ones.


14 posted on 02/04/2009 1:34:31 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: tractorman

I have to admit, the commercials are cute.


15 posted on 02/04/2009 1:35:03 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Limbaugh/Palin 2012)
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To: Puppage

Nobel Peace Prize? Like Al Gore? That pretty much says how irrelevant it is.
Did this numbskull ever heard of the sun?


16 posted on 02/04/2009 1:35:20 PM PST by max americana
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To: jveritas
Many Nobel prize are given based on political considerations, i.e. how to serve liberal policies, including the scientific ones.

Oh, I am well aware of that. I was just feeling a little sarcastic.

17 posted on 02/04/2009 1:35:43 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But let me guess... by raising taxes, destroying free enterprise, supporting millions of illegals and following a strict, leftist agenda, all will be well again! Gee, am I smart or what!


18 posted on 02/04/2009 1:36:50 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Oldpuppymax

You forgot the holy grail of the radical green left; redistributing income/wealth,


19 posted on 02/04/2009 1:37:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

You must be a bitter clinger.


20 posted on 02/04/2009 1:38:10 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Limbaugh/Palin 2012)
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