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How many times do I have to tell you "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!".
Lake Mead declines to lowest level in history
Posted from desertsun.com
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I guess Water Skiing is out of the Question? I never doubted Climate Change. I'm a Sailor, I worked with NRL Navy Research Labs, Navy Scientist have been harping on it for a long, long time. Work on any Navy Pier or Navy Shipyard on Navy Island Base and you've been seeing the Results for a while.
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Lake Mead's level is artificially controlled by man. In addition to drought conditions, population growth is also placing a growing demand on watersheds and aquifers. The last year's rainfall has ended or lessened the severity of the drought in Northern California and the northern parts of the West.
If scientific methods are accurate, there are times in the past, when greenhouse gases were in the atmosphere in much greater quantities than before man existed. Climate change is inevitable, whether man, solar activity, volcanic activity etc. etc. is the driving force behind it. The only thing constant about global weather is that it changes from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, season-to season, year-to-year and millennia-to-millennia, and epoch-to-epoch. Global weather change on a geological time scale has facilitated the diversity of species. Some species hit a dead end in response to global climate change. Some species find an opportunity and flourish in response to global climate change. Life will find a way. The local climate change will provide evolutionary dead ends to some species and evolutionary opportunities for other species.
Maybe it is time to stop wringing our hands and whining. There is climate change. There has always been climate change. There will always be climate change. If in fact man is the driving force behind current climate change (which I personally doubt), that is good news. That means we are just time and research away from controlling weather to our own advantage. Perhaps we should consider taking an active hand at influencing climate regionally and eventually globally.
If scientific methods are accurate, there are times in the past, when greenhouse gases were in the atmosphere in much greater quantities than before man existed. Climate change is inevitable, whether man, solar activity, volcanic activity etc. etc. is the driving force behind it. The only thing constant about global weather is that it changes from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, season-to season, year-to-year and millennia-to-millennia, and epoch-to-epoch. Global weather change on a geological time scale has facilitated the diversity of species. Some species hit a dead end in response to global climate change. Some species find an opportunity and flourish in response to global climate change. Life will find a way. The local climate change will provide evolutionary dead ends to some species and evolutionary opportunities for other species.
Maybe it is time to stop wringing our hands and whining. There is climate change. There has always been climate change. There will always be climate change. If in fact man is the driving force behind current climate change (which I personally doubt), that is good news. That means we are just time and research away from controlling weather to our own advantage. Perhaps we should consider taking an active hand at influencing climate regionally and eventually globally.
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COL Ted Mc
Maj John Bell - Major; Finding out how a substance can be usefully reintegrated into the ecology (and even better at a profit) is NOT the same thing as "dumping crap into the environment" and I have never confused the two.
I'm not quite sure that the environment is really benefited by a coal-fired power plant (as of the end of 2012 there were 1,308 of them) that releases 170 pounds of mercury and 225 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere every year.
I'm not quite sure that the environment is really benefited by a coal-fired power plant (as of the end of 2012 there were 1,308 of them) that releases 170 pounds of mercury and 225 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere every year.
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MCPO Roger Collins
(Newser) – The surface level at Lake Mead has dropped as planned to historic low levels, and federal water managers say the vast Colorado River reservoir is expected to continue to shrink amid ongoing drought. The closely controlled lake shrunk Wednesday to its lowest point since the Hoover Dam was completed in 1936—with a surface level of 1,074.68 feet above sea level. The US Bureau of Reclamation plans to let it drop another few feet by the end of next month. Then it will be refilled enough by the end of the year to pass a crucial water-level mark to avoid cuts in water deliveries to residents, farms, tribes, and businesses in Arizona, Nevada, and California.
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Maj John Bell
COL Ted Mc - I'm sorry. It was absolutely not my intent to imply you thought that. Nor were any of my remarks intended as darts at you. I just have a "don't worry, be happy attitude toward the issue of Global Climate change. I have infinite faith that we (human beings) will eventually figure out how to manage the problem, no matter the driving factor. And I have infinite faith in the ability of Earth to eventually absorb the damage we dish out. Yep we will kill some people, critters, and plants, do some damage and make some mistakes. But we will figure it out.
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COL Ted Mc
Maj John Bell - Major; "Don't worry, be happy." DOES work - PROVIDED that you know the situation, mission, and objectives and are rationally satisfied that you have all three under control.
When you DO NOT know (at least) one of those three then "Don't worry, be happy." becomes a recipe for disaster.
As near as I can tell, you fall into Category 1.
MOST of the "Deniers" (especially those who deny that there is any change going on at all) fall into Category 2.
When you DO NOT know (at least) one of those three then "Don't worry, be happy." becomes a recipe for disaster.
As near as I can tell, you fall into Category 1.
MOST of the "Deniers" (especially those who deny that there is any change going on at all) fall into Category 2.
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