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Because seriously that train is pulling into the station any minute now.
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Originally Posted by sonatine
The long term management of the Colorado river is definitive proof that mankind is doomed.
They replace it with a hologram of a Lake. The opening concert will be a hologram of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Tupac doing a cover of the song "Changes"
The Hoffa family and many more will have closure.
Name change to Lake Mud.
Lol Vegas haters city's goat small town feel is.goat unlv goat and tine is just salty cuz scorpions are attracted to his musk and ran him out of town
in fairness im terribly musky yes
i believe folsom is back, btw. el nino filled it and also topped off the snow caps.
in fact i believe they had to do an emergency vent of its water stores which actually resulted in a lot of damage around the american river (which they vent to).
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Originally Posted by Shizzmoney
Under 1,075 feet the feds can step in and force a reduction of water usage.
It just went to 1,074.51 ft recently.
Lets face it, sooner or later the whole westernmost chunk of the US is going to be fucked one way or another sooner or later
EDIT: westernmost
and chill the fuck out Toasterfuck - its a writing error...they happen
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Originally Posted by NaturalBornHustler
OMG the federal government is going to step in and fix everything. I am so relieved, mankind can sleep easy tonight
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Originally Posted by Gordman
You mean westernmost?
Shut it down, Gordo.
This may sound like a stupid question to some who are more in the know, but someone help me to understand, because I don't live there or know really anything about the lake. How does a lake just....dry up like that? Is the water that fills it come strictly from rainfall and/or runoff or something? I guess what im asking is, aren't there springs that fill the lake, or is it that any springs that fill the lake not enough to sustain the water level vs humans drawing water from it? I guess I am used to lakes in my neck of the woods being sustained more or less by springs keeping it filled to the proper level. Also, when a lake like lake Mead or Folsum dries up as much as it does, how much damage does it do to the fish population?
it evaporates gordo, the fish die.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordman
Of course, this prolly has nothing to do with man-made global warming, right?
Losing snow in a changing climate
WHAT GLOBAL WARMING MEANS FOR OUR WATER SUPPLIES
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/...lies/82631192/
Well obviously water evaporates smartass. Most lakes (not all) that ive been around have springs which keep the water level in check and for the most part counter evaporation.Quote:
Originally Posted by SysOpit evaporates gordo, the fish die.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordman
So the cycle is usually like;
Winter packs the mountain ranges with snow/ice, then during summer they melt and fill the lakes and rivers. Easy peasy.
But because everything is hotter, everywhere... the snow never aggregates in the mountains and there is nothing to melt in summer. On top of which, warmer weather means less rains because that much less water evaporates from the ocean/mountains and makes it inland.
Plus its a feedback loop because as the soil around the mountains/rivers changes chemistry from becoming critically dry/hot, it changes how the water flows basically. So even less water gets 'retained' on its way to the ocean.
Etc etc.
I think the Westernmostcoast is going to be dealing with too much water in the future
nostradamus
Very nice explanation, I understand now. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
I didn't realize how much different lake makeups were in those areas vs where I am used to in my neck of the woods
Regarding fish, as flow decreases in the river, temperature rises, and the hotter water is, the worse it is at retaining oxygen. So all cold water fish are dead because they cant survive in hot water period, and all large active fish basically suffocate, and all the fish that rely on those for food starve and/or suffocate.
To illustrate how severe the issue is, I moved to Washington to fish the Puget Sound steelhead / salmon runs.
:baddecision
Global warming has basically made the rivers emptying into the sound hostile to life. So the fishing is shut down indefinitely in the hopes that somehow the salmon/steelhead will magically adapt. On top of which, the rising temperatures are taking seasonal algae blooms in the sound and super charging them, meaning even less oxygen for fish/crabs.
Diggity double fucked am I.
This is where the Photoshop of tines face on a bear fishing in a stream happens
And.then two black xx's on his eyes in the next pic to really have the global warming crisis hit home
But the good news about those algea blooms is that if they happen often enough, rich oil deposits will form there, and be a plentiful source of cheap energy in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
:yes
Oh, wait. That oil won't be ready for about 150 million years.
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/30933/?id=30933
:fail
Also tines carbon footprint needs to account for the fact he's bought 4 711 pizzas and he's declared then "pretty good" on skatz
quick reminder lol wow once killed cooked and ate an ornamental carp because jack in the box 86'd him for drunken belligerence.
Never happened
the billionaires that own vegas will make the government pay billions of dollars to t boone pickens and ted turner for some of the water they ownQuote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
or hillary will reward the bush family for helping her get elected by paying them billions of dollars for some of the water they own in south america
this message is jesse ventura approved
First i'd like to address the committee and say my name is Larry Laffer, and I have a brief statement for you.
this is a key example of NON CLIMATE CHANGE enviornmental disasters. They've simply used up all the water in that lake, and it surely doesn't get enough rain fall to fill it. it's in the middle of the desert ffs. it does get fed by the colorado river, but guess what, VEGAS is booming baby. more people using water (not even wasting it per se, just more people using it) means LAKE DRIES UP faster than it can be replenished. It has nothing to do with climate change. Humans aren't meant to live in the desert like that. that place reminds me of the mars colony from Total Recall.
anyways, a key solution to this problem, would be a trans american pipleine that ships water from flooded areas to places that need it. so instead of the oil pipeline, we have a water pipeline that could say, prevent another Katrina disaster, while at the same time preventing what we see here with lake Mead.
thank you for your time.
how many community college econ courses did you fail out of
I guess it's kinda interesting in a passing sort of way.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Cheap water and unlimited growth some kinda human right?
They need to choke their way back to a more reasonable presence in the middle of the fucking desert.
This reminds me of the idiots in Phoenix who used to build in old arroyo's and dry river beds. Ten years later these house get washed away. Tough shit.
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Originally Posted by SanlmarI guess it's kinda interesting in a passing sort of way.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Cheap water and unlimited growth some kinda human right?
They need to choke their way back to a more reasonable presence in the middle of the fucking desert.
This reminds me of the idiots in Phoenix who used to build in old arroyo's and dry river beds. Ten years later these house get washed away. Tough shit.
Not really. Just ask the folks who built on the coast in nj but chose not to buy flood insc. We covered them. And not just for new low interest loans. No personal responsibility any longer.
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Originally Posted by sonatine
Well, i guess im fortunate to be able to get the salmon/steelhead by Lake Michigan when im able to make it out fishing...
It's like the Flint Michigan water crisis. I have not yet understood why this is of any interest to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by TellafriendQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Not really. Just ask the folks who built on the coast in nj but chose not to buy flood insc. We covered them. And not just for new low interest loans. No personal responsibility any longer.
If it's worth saving fucking pay for it. If your kid is being poisoned I don't think you have do get paperwork to cross the border into some other state. I mean not until Hillary is the target of White House shootings.
The free market, natural selection & social Darwinism are dead.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, supersized.Quote:
Originally Posted by SanlmarIt's like the Flint Michigan water crisis. I have not yet understood why this is of any interest to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellafriend
If it's worth saving fucking pay for it. If your kid is being poisoned I don't think you have do get paperwork to cross the border into some other state. I mean not until Hillary is the target of White House shootings.
The free market, natural selection & social Darwinism are dead.
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Originally Posted by lol wow
it's simple fucking environmental science. but thats none of my business.
lol wow: its actually literally not and not something that would be affordable so what jr college did you fail out of
http://i.imgur.com/qsgAHHi.jpg
Apparently it's not all bad news. FOX scientists are predicting fewer drownings and many are optomistic that both Noah's Ark and a cure for cancer are just a few sunny days away.
@lolwow
hold on....you're telling me, that a question of "what happens to Vegas after Lake Mead dries up" isn't a question of environmental science.
you're saying the solution to problems like this, which we have, and can do, like build pipe lines that shuttle water from flooded areas to drought areas (if we can move oil, why can't we move water right?) isn't environmental science.
do you think the earth is flat? are you one of those people?
Just raise taxes on everyone and make it inexcessably.. That works..
Except for the bohemath beuracracy that will do it. Those offices are ice cold. But the rest of us will clammer around fans to save the planet. Lol..
At the environmental POW wow.. They all came in private jets , limousines and yachts lol.
Just tax my 2012 Pontiac g6. Lol