Lake Mead Rising
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Not that this is the definitive answer, but...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html
Prior to this past week's monsoon, the Colorado Basin had been posting an above-average precipitation and snowpack stat: 123% for prec., 106% for snowpack. Lake Mead was about 35%, with total system content of about 54% versus 56% this time last year. The growth of Las Vegas in the past twenty or more years is forcing drastic measures for conservation and alternative sources.
But in one week, much of the lower Colorado Basin experienced a year's worth of rain/snow. The Virgin River at St. George was clocking streamflows equal to the average Colorado River streamflows, about one hundred times average Virgin flows. The Muddy river was flooding, along with every dry stream run. Beaver Dam wash was running at about one fifth of the flooding Virgin, and washing homes away in Arizona. Flooding was reported along the washes and streams of Kane County and Northwest Arizona as well. Even Vegas itself was pouring large streams into the lake.
The proximate cause is the declining Gulf Stream warm water flows towards Europe, resulting in a colder than normal winter going on across Europe and into Siberia. As this colder air flows across the Pacific it has dug a deep course towards Hawaii, picking up huge amounts of tropical moisture, which has recently focused flow on the US Southwest. California has had tremendous amounts of rain as well.
I've read these reports and agree with them.
One interesting fact of science research into our climate cycles is the finding that all recent ice ages have been preceeded by a short very warm up-tick. It takes a warm ocean to sustain wintertime precip over the land masses that will provide deep snows and increased reflectance from the surface to initiate the ice age.
I'm convinced we face an imminent ice age rather than a catastrophic hot excursion.
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The Thriller
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Can we elect Palin president yet?
Not on my vote. It's the "deer in the headlights" look in her eyes. Don't know who writes her speeches.
Duck Rodgers
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I think that, and giving up our sovereignty to the wisdom of The Club of Rome are the best options here.
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My mom and some of my cousins are from Overton. My dad lived in Henderson and worked for Timet and DRI. I've lived in St. George, Salt Lake, and out near Ely.
I'm trying to talk SNWA into doing desal instead of draining the Great Basin. Think Reid could get a huge Fed project going to pipe seawater to the Salton Sea, build a huge---Hoover Dam-scale--- desal plant there, replacing the California and Arizona agricultural share of the Colorado River and adding to the metropolitan shares of the Colorado River water?
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Nice try, franklin, but you won't score like Algore will on his scheme. . . . .
Former Enron official Rory Reid, son of our illustrious Senate Majority Leader, is banking on draining the Great Basin and making a new Owen's Valley so his Nevada Power/Southern Nevada Water Administration can turn a nice profit and the Strip can build on out to the California Border.
My idea of doing massive desal would mean your winter veggies could be grown on US soil, and keep that shoreline back a km or two. Considering that desal is a growning business worldwide, now producing 3.5B gal/day worldwide, and doubling every ten years. . . . perhaps you need to include that in your shoreline projections. . . .