Posted on 10/18/2021 7:05:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris stood before the record-low water levels of Nevada’s Lake Mead on Monday and made the case for the Biden administration’s climate change agenda by warning that “this is where we’re headed.”
“Look at where the water has receded over just the last 20 years,” she said, referring to the “bathtub ring” of minerals that marks where the reservoir’s water line previously stood. “That space is larger than the height of the Statue of Liberty.”
The vice president pitched the administration’s infrastructure and social safety net agenda as critical to tackling the effects of climate change — which scientists say intensify extreme weather events such as heatwaves and droughts.
Harris made the case for the package by connecting human-caused climate change to the scene she stood near, saying emissions are “part of what is contributing to these drought conditions.”
“The bipartisan infrastructure deal — combined with the ‘Build Back Better’ agenda is about what we need to do to invest in things like water recycling and reuse, what we can do in terms of water desalination, what we can do in terms of implementation of drought contingency plans,” Harris said.
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I thought the “ring” was there from the start when they let the reservoir level go to the max to initially test the overflow channels.
C'mon now, don't let facts get in the way of a good cackle.
Rising, sinking...
Government mismanagement of water resources is the real cause.
Heels Up is sinking.
From the 1970’s on we’ve had overpopulation, new ice age, acid rain, ozone hole, global warming and climate change. None of them real. All of them designed to give power to the left (who are all Sun deniers). Leftists push crazy theories, like covid spreads via the internet. Just as happened to Herschel Walker’s son with UCLA another college is restricting remote students. I read an article over at TheCollegeFix about that, “Yale says COVID restrictions apply to students in other states”, so give that a look. This film student in Hawaii having to follow Connecticut mandates despite never leaving her Pacific island proves this was never about health and was always about control. Meanwhile the Sun is still 99.86% of the mass of our solar system and still responsible for all weather, energy and climate on Earth. Science!
I believe in 1984 or so the lake went to the top and flowed through the over flow channels. Quite a Sight! and Noise!
The reason for it changes on the political need for it to change.
After the Deluge (a proven event) that bathtub ring was in a totally different spot. Remind her of that.
Uh . . . I thought the problem was RISING sea levels. And rising sea levels would similarly affect most connecting waterways, as well as the level of the groundwater. It’s hard to follow the science here . . .
Let’s see. Politicians can’t secure our borders or balance a budget, but if we give them enough power and money they can fix the climate?
Just shows how delusional these people really are. They live in a world that is full of unreality. But so do the voters who elect them.
“....RISING sea levels....”
or is the constant erosion of the beaches by constant wave action???
Did Kamala click her heels when making that statement?
Then rising water now receding water....what's next? Are we to be fearful of the water levels staying level?
So if Joeks climate agenda is passed, Lake Mead will start filling immediately. Riiiight.
Two. We do not have the technology or capability, even remotely, to effect climate on a global scale. To act as if we do is self-aggrandizing on a laughable scale. Think I'm wrong? Fine, make is snow in Aspen this year, 20% more than normal. I'll wait. If that's too hard, explain why the Atlantic hurricane season just tanked. Make me a hurricane. I'll wait.
Three. Even if we were an "un-natural" cause of some form of climate change, even if we had the technology and capability to make a change... What is the "right" climate for Earth? The climate we have today? The climate we had 10, 20, 100 years ago? The Earth's climate has been continually changing since there was an Earth's climate. Who are we to say what is "right" and attempt to hold a highly variable system in stasis?
You do realize that the reservoirs in the west while low, are doing exactly what they were intended to do and designed to do - mitigate extreme swings in water availability. When there is an extremely wet year, they absorb the extra run-off (look up 1983 for an example of when that went wrong). When there are dry years they provide some measure of continued water availability. That is the very nature of a reservoir. They go up, they go down. They trend up over a few years, they trend down over a few years. Don't get excited over them doing their job.
In no small part a major problem with the reservoirs on the Colorado river are our own fault, two ways. First, the decision on how much water to allocate to various uses was made after measuring flows on the Colorado after a few particularly wet years. Turns out the average flow is actually significantly less than expected. Oops. Second, the upper basin states have not been pulling their entire allocated share, while the lower states (ahem, California) have been getting more than their allocation - right up until it became a serious problem. Chalk that up to gross mis-management.
But please, don't let that stop the heels-up Harris from a good photo op.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
There is only a 16 foot difference from the crest of the capillary and the top of the rotary gates which marks the max surface level of lake mead. The bathtub ring is 140 feet tall it is caused by the chemical action of water on the sand stone when submerged once the water levels drop the now dry sand stone shows where the water has leached minerals out of the stone causing a bleaching effect. Lake mead is at 1067 feet as of today a historical low. At 950’ the last 5 turbines don’t have enough water pressure to make power anymore. At 895’ lake mead cannot pass water down stream and enters deadpool. Las Vegas just drilled 3 miles under the lake to put in a third intake pipe at 860’ that’s 35 feet below dead pool and would allow Vegas to take water to nearly the bottom which due to sedimentation is at 725’ up nearly 200 feet since Hoover dam went it.
Lake mead is full at 1221’ this is 16 feet above the crest of the spillway sill at 1205’ the drum.gates make up the difference.
https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/storage-capacity-of-lake-mead.htm
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