Aggie Joke Update

In 2011, A&M’s Andrew Dessler said Texas would be hot and dry for the rest of the century.

Texas is vulnerable to warming climate

ANDREW DESSLER , HOUSTON CHRONICLE |

July 10, 2011

The weather of the 21st century will be very much like the hot and dry weather of 2011. Giving extra credibility to this forecast is the fact that the weather extremes that we are presently experiencing were predicted in the first edition in 1995.

Texas is vulnerable to warming climate – Houston Chronicle

Four years later, Texas is record cold and wetter than normal.

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10 Responses to Aggie Joke Update

  1. emsnews says:

    NOAA keps saying my neck of the woods will be warmest evah, too. I keep waiting for it and it keeps on being around zero F.

  2. Tony B says:

    Might not be officially in drought, but much of central and south Texas has little in reserve in the aquifers and water supplies. Could do with a few weeks of heavy, wet weather otherwise a drought will be very quickly declared again with the onset of summer.

    • rah says:

      In the places that rely on aquifers, such as the San Antonio area, the critical point is that the rain must come in the recharge zone to increase the aquifer levels. Remember well the pink dye they used to measure levels coming out of the faucets at Ft. Sam.

      • Gail Combs says:

        Much of California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona is semi-desert that depends on fossil water (aquifers)

        The problem of how to live in a desert was solved by Israel.

        Israel is creating a water surplus using desalination

        Israeli water tech reaching America’s biggest states

        The Secrets of Saving: Israel’s water conservation

        farming methods

        And these innovative people are the ones the P.C. crowd does NOT want to support? Instead they want to support the killers and destroyers??? – Does not compute, does not compute, does not…..

        Desalinization and nuclear (Thorium) are a win-win combination.

        ….Saudi Arabia in 2011 obtained 3.3 million m3/d from 27 government-owned (SWCC) seawater desalination plants, 70% of the country’s requirements. Twelve plants, accounting for most of production, use multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) and 7 plants use multi-effect distillation (MED), in both cases the plants are integrated with power plants (cogeneration plants), using steam from the power generation as a source of energy for desalination. Eight plants are single-purpose plants that use reverse osmosis (RO) technology and power from the grid. ……

        ….Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for desalination, often with cogeneration of electricity using low-pressure steam from the turbine and hot seawater feed from the final cooling system. The main opportunities for nuclear plants have been identified as the 80-100,000 m³/day and 200-500,000 m³/day ranges. US Navy nuclear powered aircraft carriers reportedly desalinate 1500 m3/d each for use onboard.

        A 2006 IAEA report based on country case studies showed that costs would be in the range ($US) 50 to 94 cents/m3 for RO, 60 to 96 c/m3 for MED and $1.18 to 1.48/m3 for MSF processes, with marked economies of scale. Nuclear power was very competitive at today’s gas and oil prices. A French study for Tunisia compared four nuclear power options with combined cycle gas turbine and found that nuclear desalination costs were about half those of the gas plant for MED technology and about one third less for RO. With all energy sources, desalination costs with RO were lower than MED costs…..
        (wwwDOT)world-nuclear.org/info/Non-Power-Nuclear-Applications/Industry/Nuclear-Desalination/

    • g2-9ed9acc685824c6663c51c5b093476cc says:

      You’ve not been paying attention then. Try looking outside

    • Louis Hooffstetter says:

      Love it!
      (I could vote for Jindal if he decided to run.)

      • Gail Combs says:

        From WIKI
        Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (born June 10, 1971)[1] is an American politician who is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and the Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

        Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana….

        Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana’s 1st district
        In office January 3, 2005 – January 14, 2008
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        Sure looks better than Bush III

  3. g2-9ed9acc685824c6663c51c5b093476cc says:

    In case no one’s keeping up, our weather here in Texas has been extremely wet the last 18 months or so.

    The Summer of 2014 was quite cool.

    Does that mean “no global warming?” Too soon to say, but so far you couldn’t use the actual weather patterns since this guy made that prediction to prove he was on the right track.

    • Tony B says:

      g2: Houston, Dallas and West Texas have loads of water. I think Houston water reserves are at 100%. Austin and San Antonio are not so well off. South and Central Texas gets most of its rain in April/May and an occasional decaying hurricane is welcome. Dessler’s forecast of doom is just more propaganda. Just saying that all of Texas is not extremely wet.

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