Climate experts claim that global warming brings drought to the west. Data tells us the exact opposite – the west has gotten much wetter since the Little Ice Age (which fraudster Michael Mann tried to erase.)
The Longest Measure of Drought: 21 Centuries of Rainfall in New Mexico – NYTimes.com
Experts like Katherine Hayhoe have been hysterically warning about drought in the southwest, based on their mindless superstitions about CO2. Over the past two years, the southwest and Rocky Mountain states have been much wetter than normal.
Your tax dollars go to support these academic and governmental morons.
Tony, you’re doing a helluva job here but somehow we’ve got to change our tactics because our message is not reaching the necessary audience. When I posted that thing from Marketwatch, the online very liberal organ of the WSJ I had not read all the comments. I read more last evening. The Alarmists are more rabid than we are and rabid, it seems, gets more followers than true fact based arguments.
Humans these days seem addicted to instant gratification rather than even consider the innumerable climate cycles that have been going on since the universe burped the planet into existence. If the cycle is much longer than the average three minute sex act it doesn’t exist.
Somehow we have to get the attention of the masses who are being led down the primrose path.
And to top it off, rumors are that Al Gore is considering a run for the Democrat nomination!
Gore isn’t going to run, he’s making too much money from the Climate scam. I think that was his payoff for losing in 2000.
My message is definitely reaching my target audience
Market Watch is not a commonly read financial site. You will never see anyone linking to an article on that site. I just checked on ranking.com and it is ranked 181,010. In case that sounds high, the .com sites around that level are several porn sites, one site no longer running, and the only recognizable ones are businessweek.com and nick.com. merriam-webster.com ranks higher.
The old name used to be CBS Marketwatch, which sounds more familiar to me, and is also why no one goes there.
The key culprit on MW is one Paul Farrell the champion of click bait. Every few weeks he produces an article that hysterically argues for warming and that we are doomed. And it is all capitalism’s fault.
He is also a promoter of the Naomi Klein school of logic that argues that everything, perhaps even your hemorrhoids, is due to capitalism and that the glory of socialism and government interference is the only hope for staving off the end of the world.
A while back I wrote to Farell that one should not take Klein to seriously. After all she seems, paradoxically, to be in in it for the money. A sort of Michael Moore for the pretend intelligentsia. Klein lives in an extremely trendy and super expensive part of Toronto, is married to a senior correspondent for Al-Jazeera and rakes in millions from her books telling everyone that money is destroying the planet.
Farrell’s response, I can only describe as extreme flame mail. I was polite when I wrote, but Farrell’s reply was aggressive and rude. He took the tone of ‘who do you think you are’ questioning his (and Klein’s) wisdom. And did I not know that the world was burning. Subsequent exchanges got more and more heated until I withdrew.
As far as I can tell Farrell is ex-Wall Street and makes a good living now as MW’s click bait champion. Even among the almost wall to wall lefties on MW though Farrell is extreme, but if you are looking for a good laugh he is certainly worth a read. Few have the ability to conflate – in a single article – capitalism, global warming and the Republicans into a single nexus of evil like Farrell.
Ahhhh.. the MONEY !!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/how-the-eciu-is-funded/
I think that is the reason for huge forests all over the West in the last couple of centuries. They might not have existed during dry periods. Lake beds in California show plenty of evidence that forests come and go over the centuries due to changing climate as do water levels in the large lakes. One only wonders what is there when the conifers aren’t. Perhaps scrub oak, manzanita, and other low growth between Yuma and San Diego holds a clue. Migration patterns of the ancient Indians shows they lived off seafood along the southern end of the San Francisco Bay during the drought periods, then moved back to the forests during wet periods.
I believe that addtional CO2 if anything is causing fewer droughts overall and causing deserts to bloom. They have it all backwards, CO2 is very beneficial rather than harmful.
For the second year in a row the Bonneville salt flats are too flooded for speed week.
http://www.popsci.com/years-speed-week-bonneville-salt-flats-cancelledagain
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2709833-155/speed-week-is-in-danger-again?fullpage=1
It’s not just that the salt pans are flooded, but that the excess water is dissolving the salt layer and carrying it into the underground aquifer.
From sunshinehours..
2nd Wettest July in California History
https://sunshinehours.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/noaa_july_2015_california_precipitation.jpg
Plenty of rain in the Southwest this year:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/
This has been one of the nicest summers I can remember out here in Phoenix, Arizona. Just not that hot. We are finally getting some of those legendary hot days over 110 degrees F; but it has been a great monsoon season and just lovely out here.
If you’ve never been out this way, visit us sometime.
Oh, I keep forgetting that this is the “Least Sustainable City in the World!”
http://grist.org/cities/phoenix-rising-can-the-worlds-least-sustainable-city-go-green/
Never mind. I guess Phoenix is just another pre-apocalyptic city just waiting for that awful Man-Made Global warming to…to…to do something well, awful! So far though, it’s quite nice here.
I’ve been there more than once. I like the place, but the fact is that it is too low and too dry for even saguaro cactus to grow naturally. Phoenix, like Las Vegas, supports more than 1000x the people it would in it’s natural state year to year.
Don’t get me wrong. The place is wonderful. But just don’t complain when the water runs out because that is what is going to happen sooner or later in a desert at times not matter what man has done and no matter how many golf courses you water or don’t water. And when it does, it won’t be some man made disaster. It will be what nature does.
Obviously you Love what you have now. And you know what the “normal” is and so appreciate the cooler and wetter times you’ve had. But there will come a time when the worst will be worse than most folks can imagine.
rah,
Good and prudent comments concerning this inhospitable place that has been colonized and turned into a great city. I first moved out here to work for what I thought would be about six months but I fell in love with the place. There is an austerity to the surroundings that I find haunting, beautiful, and endlessly fascinating in some weird hard to describe way.
It is just such an unlikely place to be settled on such a large scale. You are right about the water. I feel like I’m living in a moment in history when this area can support a large population – and since you’ve been here you know that somehow Phoenix feels like a gigantic resort – it’s not a dump! This is a nicely kept up city and very livable.
I suppose if the rivers run dry, the water runs out, and the least sustainable city stuff comes true; I’ll just have to move on. Probably Texas; I like San Antonio a lot. But if water is the only problem… Why not just pipe it in from the Pacific Ocean after it’s desalinated at the nuclear-powered desalinization plant? Or pipe it in from the Sea of Cortez…
So the problem of water is really a problem of energy and of money and of political will. There’s actually plenty of water. How did Israel get Palestine to bloom? It’s doable technically. Up to now, it has been cheap and easy to get water from the ground and from rivers; but in the future why not water deserts with desalinated sea-water? And then build great cities and live in the desolate deserts in man-made paradises?
Don’t get me started on Moon bases and colonizing Mars! But if we can’t manage to live in Phoenix, how are we ever going to live on Mars?
That city can be sustained there for sure. It will be a simple matter of economics! And all the ghost towns attest to what happens when the money runs out and it becomes to expensive to stay. Still, I totally agree with you! The place is wonderful. I wish everyone could drive I-10 going west and see the saguaros as they pass through the higher desert and then look down into the valley and see about 1/2 a dozen dust devils playing across the expanse. Then when your in the valley there is all that flat land looking out onto the mountains in the distance. Those vistas are ones that I will never forget and one reason why I became a truck driver in the first place.