http://city-journal.org/2015/25_1_california-drought.html The Scorching of California How Green extremists made a bad drought worse (It's not all that partisan, in spite of the anger in the title. Its a thorough explanation of how past generations built a robust water supply and how that has been dismantled over time in the name of environmentalism.)
Ha! "When Stanford professors and Cupertino tech lords cannot take a shower!" Won't that be a bitch! Lived there for 14 years, Never could understand the liberal tendencies of most of those people It is almost like some very smart people just are missing some crucial parts. They are indeed members of the a new class emerging, the New Clerisy. Highly educated with half an education.
Dont get to excited, its not the rain we need this time of year. http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/...ints-a-dry-summer-for-irrigators-and-wildlife
In the 60s, scientists told us DDT was killing the birds, we changed pesticides. In the 70s, scientists told us we needed to remove lead from gasoline and we did. In the 80s, scientists told us about a hole in the ozone and we reformulated refrigerants and propellants. None of these things were decried as hoaxes or were politically divisive. We adjusted and moved on. Now, did our scientists get stupid or did "we"?
Even if the scientists didn't have conclusive evidence, none of those adjustments involved going back to the stone age. The cost was $billions, not hundreds of $trillions.
Yet you opposed me when I advocated getting cost estimates for climate change options. Now you seem to have those numbers, which no one else has. Hiding numbers (reminds me of the 2 million dead in Iraq) seems to be the main tactic to ensure Republican Luddism.
Do tell how much it's going to cost. Will I still have lights at my house at night to read by at night?
I don't know what it would cost. Neither do you. That's the point. A few months ago, I asked merely to allow the U.S. government to form an expert panel to estimate potential costs for each option, so that the country could have a more informed debate, but you were deadset against it. Better to keep the discussion level in the Stone Age.
I know it will cost $trillions. You would turn off every coal fired power plant everywhere. How much does it cost to replace those? How much to get rid of the 250M cars in the USA alone? I don't have to know the exact cost to know it's TOO DAMNED MUCH.
It's so scorching down there in that shit hole that a ton of them are continually moving up here. God help us all.
I love Oregon, let's just hope Canada doesn't dam up al the rivers that feed the country like we did to Northern Mexico...which is now a desert. I read somewhere a long while back that golf courses in California and Arizona sucked up an amazing amount of the watershed..might want to rethink that practice. Israel has used deslination plants to deal with water shortages but Californians think it'll ruin the view from the beach...choices eh? Last time I checked, both liberals and conservatives owned beach front property, played golf and watered their lawns with elaborate sprinkler systems. Why global warning is a polital debate has always baffled me unless you just hated Al Gore's movie
