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Warming could push Colorado to historic low

The disaster lemmings are out in force in this article. Gloabal warming is not the ineveitable it is made out to be. It verges on junk science. The model the forecasts are predicated upon is flawed, skewed, biased...whatever name you want to give it.

The writers should research the other side of the question before regurgitating the standard "consensus" line. But that would be too hard and require work I guess.

Hype-along calamity Janes like you ought to be banned from the media for fear mongering. Get a science degree and learn to hypothesize after your research instead of band wagon science.

I wish I could blame everything on global warming. It seems like anything that goes on in this world can be linked to global warming....come on.

Like weather forecasts, run off forecasts are more accurate in the near term. I have high confidence in the 120% runoff forecast this water year, lower confidence in the gloom and doom longer term worries of global warming theory supporters. There is no scientific consensus yet on what is man caused and what is natural in the global warming arena. In terms of geologic time, temperature volatility has been a main characteristic of the past few 10s of thousands of years.

Strong said the Colorado's flow will be ample this year. The lake is expected to rise by 50 feet from above-average upstream runoff, mostly from snowfall in Colorado. This is the fact the rest is Al Gore hype.

If it was this low 500 years ago what was warming the earth then? The climate of earth goes thru changes and cycles all the time. The difference now is there are legions of chicken little "scientist" running around screaming for attention. Get a grip, girls.

about 3 weeks ago the des news reported that lake powell would be up 40 feet this year and did not mention globel warming. did we have a drought this winter that i missed?

Given the forcasters record we better start building dikes now.

If the river will be at its lowest level in 500 yrs then what was happening 500 yrs ago?

Could it be that we simply don't have enough data to say anything about global warming?

smattering and snowboy, or the "two s's" as I like to think of you, just exactly what kind of background do you need to work for the U.S. Geological Service? I expect at least a Master's of Science, more likely a PhD. And these are the guys you are telling to "get a science degree", and of dealing in junk science? You have blinders on, if you can't see that at the very least, the USGS is staffed by people with the highest level of expertise in earth science. The fact that you refuse to admit that tells us that you are simply in denial.
Pick a fight with their data or techniques, cite a reliable conflicting opinion we can go to, but don't trot out your ignorance of the U.S. Geological Service, one of the most respected scientific agencies around.

Why is there no mention in this article of the 10-year cooling trend that the Earth is currently experiencing and the impact to the Colorado if that trend continues? 1998 was the hottest year on record and temperatures have receded since then. I proposed a new UN panel called the Intergovernmental Panel on Meteor Impacts (or "IPMI") which could constantly warn us of the dangers of meteor impacts to the Earth. The IPMI could periodically release studies of what would happen if small, medium, or large meteors impact different geographical locations. It would have the same value as the IPCC. Governments, in turn, could fund scientific research of yet another hypothetical event.

To Johnson: right on! Can we get an "amen" to brother Johnson?! He tells it like it is.

I have known/worked with the USGS off and on for decades. The agency is filled with neutral and well trained scientists who just love to crunch numbers, run models, and let the conclusions be based on science, the systematic verifiable body of knowledge.

The Colorado is overwhelmed by us. Of that there is no doubt, unless you are biased toward the view that man can only do great things and that some how we are supposed to procreate more and more and hope that something good happens to our limited water supply.

These problems of over population and limited water are so well-known that it is suprising to see that there are folks left who are still in denial. Amazing relics.

As to global warming, the scientists with no cross to burn, point at us, we, you and I, as adding to the problem. Not the sole cause, but definitely a significant factor in the change.

Go back and run the tape again of what Gore said. He told it truthfully.

My campus applauded his effort. Reasonably so.

The Shadown Knows.

Global warming and cooling is a natural cycle that can be historically proven. To think that Al Gore, the great climate prophet, can precisely predict what the snow pack or temperatures are going to be next year or 10 years from now requires blind faith in this new religion.

Their prophets have been wrong two years running. This is simply a religious scam that is being crammed down our throats.

There are just some people out there who refuse to believe that humans have the potential to alter the earth's climate, and look for any reason to poke their fingers in your eye. It is true that the earth goes through natural cycles, but one thing the doubters of global warming are missing is that perhaps we are not in a natural warming cycle. Heaven forbid that a natural warming cycle occurs at the same time humans are warming the planet. Perhaps the doubters are right and the scientists are wrong; I'm still not willing to take the chance, besides what is wrong with the fringe benefits of cleaning up the air that we breathe and living like true stewards of the earth, and even better yet, a whole new industry could be spawned that will help employ millions of people in developing and manufacturing green technology--something that can't be outsourced too easily to third world countries.

The other media outlets have mostly figured out that if they are going to allow comments from the public that they can't run the global warming stuff because they will get ripped to shreds.
We should all be thankful for global warming because we don't have to listen to the press go on and on any more about the hole in the ozone layer!
In like sense global warming will only be "solved" when the media comes up with their next scary story that they can fall back on when there is no real news!

I predict it the Colorado River will rise in the next 50 years because of global warming. I have as much authority in saying this as these wack jobs have in saying it will shrink away. On another note what will the weate be like 14, 21, 28 days, or 4 years from today? If you can tell me I will buy global warming. I love the global warming we are having this winter.

I woke up with a cold this morning. Turns out it was caused, at least in part, by global warming.

This article's research on this subject is sloppy. You completely ignore evidence from the National Science Foundation's researchers in Greenland and Antarctica that suggests that during periods of rising temperatures precipitation over the mainlands actually increases. Even school children know that dinosaurs lived in a wet/warm climate. But hey, that just doesn't fit in well with the alarmist intention of the article, does it.

Global warming? Sure would like it to hit here this was one of the coldest winters I can remember!

Please call me and the press when YOU can make the wind blow...or when you make a cloud appear in the sky...or when you make it rain, snow, sleet, hail....or when YOU cause a tornado....

I love it when the arrogance of man THINKS they can actually change the climate..... the earth has been through how many coolings and warmings over the thousands of years? Was man responsible for the Ice Age or for when it ended?

You are not in charge my friend. Their is only One in charge of this earth and its existence....and as far as I know, you ain't Him.