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America Might Soon Witness A Second Dust Bowl-Like Migration
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| 7-27-2014
| Pete Saunders
Posted on 07/27/2014 8:36:23 PM PDT by blam
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To: hinckley buzzard
The Southwest had a serious drought of ten years through the '40's, and more, and no one even remembers. These people trade in drivel. The only thing in the article I disagree with is the strong implication the drought is the result of human activity. No way! There have been many serious droughts in in the SW, some lasting hundreds of years determined by geological records. This one could be bad -- there's really no way to predict. But all this AGW (Al Gore Warming) nonsense is just that. Climate change is a feature of life on Earth.
To: cherry
"I'm all for people having choices but the deforestation has got to be having an impact on the ability of the ground to hold water.... " There are more trees in North America now than there were in 1491.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:45:13 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: PGR88
Stop confusing people with facts and logic!
To: fifedom
‘They also have not built any dams or reservoirs for decades.’
A huge part of the problem. Such things cause environmentalists to have fits though. How dare we alter the natural environment...
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:46:24 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: blam
If it means fewer people in Alabama, hey, I’m good! More room for me.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:47:33 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(Kidney infection, malaria and dengue all in the same week)
To: Bernard Marx
"This one could be bad -- there's really no way to predict. But all this AGW (Al Gore Warming) nonsense is just that. Climate change is a feature of life on Earth. " I agree 100%.
I didn't much care for the La Brea tar pits tour though.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:55:42 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: blam
I didn’t much care for the La Brea tar pits tour though.
The La Brea tar pits suck.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:57:35 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
To: blam
meanwhile in pa the farms seem to grow endless acres of corn to be used for gasoline additives and not food.
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:15:07 PM PDT
by
kvanbrunt2
(civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
To: blam
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:16:37 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" - -Deacon character, "Waterworld")
To: blam
Gee it’s too bad we don’t have modern technology that could produce all the drinking and irrigation water we need from the ocean...............................oh wait! Do these doomsayers ever think before they write or do they honestly believe that everyone is stupid?
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:18:57 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: blam
"That future could very well mean fewer people in the dry West and coastal areas of the East and South"
He tossed "coastal areas of the East and South" right in there with the West. Not likely except for the Texas Gulf Coast. Kansas continues to suffer from drought. And parts of the West (Northwest) that aren't as dry as other parts started getting some epic snow dumps and ice blows. Higher elevations of the central Rockies above southern CO have been getting drenched all summer with constant cloud cover (very odd). Might be an extremely interesting winter.
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:24:55 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" - -Deacon character, "Waterworld")
To: Mastador1
That requires cheap electricity... and some idiot in Washington decided to get rid of that.
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:31:06 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: Bogey78O
As I saw it the moron writer was using climate change caused drought as his theory, desalination whether by expensive or cheap electricity still exposes him as a fool.
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:36:46 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Free Vulcan
Noted that myself. Southwestern Colorado has been getting hammered all summer with rain. This after a snowpack of up to 200 percent of normal in some basins. And the year before that was wet as well. And yet, we’re still supposedly in a drought, because it was dry two winters back?
Those maps are bs.
To: Bogey78O; fifedom
All of the desirable dam sites have been built. So it is the ratio of surface area to volume which defines the water loss to evaporation.
A narrow deep lake versus a broad shallow lake.
How much land is needed affects cost and you have to take somebody's land. The cost of the dam goes up. The longer the dam, the more ancient river beds there are which increases the risk of dam failure, which requires more soil testing, which isn't fullproof. The broad shallow lakes also silt up faster.
There are a number of these broad shallow lakes in west Texas which are presently bone dry. And Dallas is planning on building one.
OTOH, there is room for two more dams on the Colorado River but they would be in the Grand Canyon.
To: blam
I doubt anything that is said in this article because they have disqualified themselves from any credibility by using the words “climate change” as if that means anything.
To: Valpal1
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posted on
07/28/2014 7:05:38 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: Bernard Marx
There have been many serious droughts in in the SW, some lasting hundreds of years determined by geological records.Yes, to the point that some think that's why certain cultures here died out.
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posted on
07/28/2014 7:56:31 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: Valpal1
Now THAT I believe. I watch the nat’l radar nearly every day to see where it is raining, and the areas that are supposedly under severe drought according to Droughtmonitor are getting good rain up to 3 times a week.
They’re pushing their crap because they are pushing global warming. And God is mocking them for it by sending rain, sometimes right where the drought is supposedly the worst, as He is right this minute.
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posted on
07/28/2014 8:03:39 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
To: Free Vulcan
The Palmer algorithm is from the 60’s, before AGW corrupted the science. They have developed new AGW ones to use for their scare campaign, yet still publish the Palmer index??? Because it’s more accurate, of course.
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posted on
07/28/2014 9:31:20 AM PDT
by
Valpal1
(If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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