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Will Powell be all dried up by 2021?
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The enevitable? Well sure, if we keep doing what we were doing, but we aren't and haven't been for some time now. Way back in the 1970's Lake Erie literally burned. More the pollutants in the lake burned but since then, Lake Erie is incredibly clean and healthy.
In Utah we have had a very sordid history of contamination but no more. Our state is so much cleaner than what it once was, and mistakes are not being repeated. Pollution is very much regulated.
And are you bland about the new micro-fibers that generate electricty? If so it's evidence you are not after a clean environment but a radical anti-commercialism, "man is evil" type.
To the other blogger who posted about northern Africa once hosting thriving populations. It would seem that you are blaming the Sahara Desert on man. Is that correct?
What ever happened to acid rain? Oh, another fraud exposed.
Decisions based on real science please.
Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientists, there is no reason to believe in global warming
Mankind is not responsible for depleting the ozone layer
The Earth�s ecosystem is not fragile, and humans are not capable of destroying it
The real enemies of the radical environmental leadership are capitalism & the American way of life
There are more acres of forest land in America today than in 1492
Less-developed cultures are not kinder to nature than technologically sophisticated civilizations. The reverse more often is true
Big-government regulation is not the best way to protect the environment
Many environmental groups have adopted their cause with all the enthusiasm of a religious crusade, abandoning reason and accepting many faulty premises on faith
Mankind is part of nature and not necessarily the enemy."
Author - Rush Limbaugh (from his radio show)
Now we see where these radical right-wingers get their nutty B.S.
We were in SLC recently, man the smog was bad. You seem to have gone backwards in that area.
Micro-fibers generating electricity, neat idea. Now how to make it practical. Hang out the wash with jumper cables attached? We await the outcome.
North Africa?, heck take the whole continent. When satellite obervations became possible a number of years ago they found this very square patch of green in a sea of brown. They sent someone to investigate. The native peoples cattle had eaten the land bare and then they were starving. The green was a European man who practiced logical farming methods. Why is only Africa home to such de-nuded lands? Answer your own question.
Acid rain. Oh, my favorite. Dump all that limestone in and put in fish and people come and catch all the fish and then there are no fish. Wonder why? Oh, acid rain. Nope, just part of the answer.
Those who denigrate Utah and Utahns: Fact is, your home state is probably much more polluted than Utah and the people there love the land less and spend less time on it. Yes even you, Rocky Mtn Superfund states. Lose 5 points.
To those who predictably blame Rush Limbaugh for opinions they disagree with (I don't listen to Rush): Lose 10 points. Radio and TV commentators don't make up their material on global warming, they generally get it from climate experts. Stick with the message, not the messenger if you want to score any points here. Lose an additional 5 points for insulting the messenger.
Lose another 10 points if someone cites data that contradicts your claims.
How's your score? I calculate that BBKing is in the lead, with "Getting the Right Facts" and various Anonymous posters far in the rear.
Sensible Scientist - 0
For living in his own little thumbs up/thumbs down world.
Or at least I hope. ;>
The Lord has answered many prayers in this area and we are being blessed with a great deal of moisture all of which will be running downhill to lake Powell.
Global warming is bad science, but I don't see why this is the issue here, it's water.
What these experts fail to work into their predictions is that people are smart. They figure out ways to make things work. We will be doing things very differently in 2021 than we do now, based on our new findings and new knowledge. People are always learning and growing and changing, and we are an incredibly smart species when it comes to survival. We adapt.
Oh that we could be more like the caveman, in tune with the wonders of nature.
I did not post this:"don't worry you and your family will be flushed down quickly as you have built your house and brains on an old lake bed anyways! That should help cure what ails the place anyways."
I just love those who are afraid to stand behind their words, but when you use my name to post your mindlessness, that is low.
Mark Whitney
Sandy
Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Monday night, Al Gore said that now that Bush has taken up the cause of global warming, the former vice president and environmental activist will redirect his energies toward developing a personal spacecraft capable of transporting a family of four to a distant planet.
Experts can tell you that 'public' water supplies are getting low, but they can't do much about your own 'private' water supplies.
Do your homework, roll up your sleeves, and make sure your private supplies are better than your overpriced public utility.
Today the Deseret News carries the story though it broke yesterday. It is of micro-technology that will allow a person to recharge their cell phone, i-pod, etc by simply plugging it into their shirt, coat, pants, etc.
We are talking renewable energy!
And with the breaking of this story I just read a story about French scientists using similar concepts that could coat a building with a similar material and with each raindrop electricty is generated.
I know this story is about extreme-fear mongering, yet if you read the story in this paper, one person commented on it: Me.
Why is this not big news? Why do we not see all of the environmentalists on this story, quite enthused might I add, not even touch that story? Does this not mean we are close to complete energy dependency? Does this not mean that within our life-time, maybe within a couple decades we may see the last coal powered power plant shut down because free markets have deemed it the most expensive form of energy?
Silence!
This is why I think environmentalists are not about good policy, but anti-man/pro-Marxism = power.
... excuse me now, I have to go shovel more snow...
Nothing less than the preservation of my descendents' lifestyle itself is at stake.
We cannot, in good conscience, lay such a burden on tomorrow's generations of my family. My children are the future. And at the end of the day, isn't it family�my family�that truly matters?
Why can't California build desalination plants as other countries that border on oceans or seas? That would give us another supplier of coveted sea salt, and fresh water.
Costly? Perhaps.
Easy? Yup!!!
Long term? Yup!!!
They shrunk some, but now have grown back and then some.
As for the Northwest Passage, that I will look into. I doubt it though, though the beauty of the internet is that finding the answer is not very hard.
Fact, ice shelves are not permanently shrinking. That would be roughly a floating ice berg 50 miles by 50 miles.
Also, a logic test though not as accurate. In 1943 (key when you consider the increase of CO2 release coinciding with industrialization begins early in the 20th century) a squadron of P-38 fighters lands on the ice shelfs of Greenland. They are recovered some 55 years later and are buried under 70 feet of ice. So 70 feet of ice accumulated over the first 55 years. And another 6 feet accumulated from the time of first recovery until three years later, last efforts.
Does this mean anything?
Scientific facts do not support what you are saying. Sorry.
It will be right-wing nuts scarying people in the future into more wasteful descruction of the environment.
Lake Mead DID come very close to drying up during the last drought cycle, and Lake Powell was at its lowest level in decades.
What does "growing demand" mean? It means increasing immigration, that's what. 82% of US population growth over the next 42 years will be a result of immigration. We will have nearly 450 million people by then and the result will be the sacrifice of all we've come to love.
But we can't mention that. That's politically incorrect. So just blame the problem on developers (who love immigration, btw). Blame it on left-wing enviro wackos. Blame it on right-wing power hungry maniacs with their "damning" projects.
Just don't blame it on mass immigration that's adding 2 million+ people a year to our population, because that's "racist" and "xenophobic" and insensitive - and it's the only thing we can do anything about.
When you take your sponge bath and walk out past your brown lawn to your car to queue up for your 2 hour commute, remember what I said.
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Make signs and taking peoples donations and when Lake Powell does not dry up like they say it might I will retire and build me a beach house and own several acres
of property. I wonder how many people will be dumb enough to fall for it if I include a save the whales fund. I know there are no whales in Lake Powell but all the people who panic and actually believe in this article might fall for it.