Calif. Drought:Environmentalists turned off the water. Not climate change as Obama s

[R.D.]

Video: The valley hope forgot. POSTED AT 3:35 PM ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 BY ED MORRISSEY

That would be the San Joaquin Valley in California, one of the most prolific agricultural areas in the country — or at least it was, until environmentalists turned off the water. Did they need it for people in response to the drought? No, because the water that would normally flow to the SJV is getting directed out to sea instead. Environmentalists have chosen to bankrupt an entire ecosystem of farms in favor of protecting the Delta smelt, a three-inch fish that neither feeds people nor eliminates pests from the water system. LINK


Actually, the problem for Central Valley farmers is that their water got taken from them by a federal judge, who put a baitfish ahead of human beings. Central Valley’s water-management system was designed to deal with droughts that last as long as five years, but the reservoirs that held its lifeblood got emptied into the ocean to rescue the Delta smelt.....

In fact, Obama threatened to veto a bill that would have resolved this situation almost exactly two years ago. Instead, Obama insisted that the environmentalists needed to keep channeling water away from this rich agricultural resource and from the farmers who had worked it for generations, thanks to their own engineering genius at defeating droughts, to pour that water into the Pacific Ocean instead. LINK

 

[KNB]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

 

[R.D.]

And Investors Business Daily?

That sorry comeback is so tired!

 

[boedicca]

The government has emptied reservoirs to try to resuscitate a salmon run that disappeared 60 years ago. That water should have been saved so that it would be available during a drought.

But the enviro-freakshow doesn't care about people.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

Then you should have no problem proving that California did not have a plan in place to deal with a drought of up to 5 years.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Video: The valley hope forgot. POSTED AT 3:35 PM ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 BY ED MORRISSEY

That would be the San Joaquin Valley in California, one of the most prolific agricultural areas in the country — or at least it was, until environmentalists turned off the water. Did they need it for people in response to the drought? No, because the water that would normally flow to the SJV is getting directed out to sea instead. Environmentalists have chosen to bankrupt an entire ecosystem of farms in favor of protecting the Delta smelt, a three-inch fish that neither feeds people nor eliminates pests from the water system. LINK


Actually, the problem for Central Valley farmers is that their water got taken from them by a federal judge, who put a baitfish ahead of human beings. Central Valley’s water-management system was designed to deal with droughts that last as long as five years, but the reservoirs that held its lifeblood got emptied into the ocean to rescue the Delta smelt.....

In fact, Obama threatened to veto a bill that would have resolved this situation almost exactly two years ago. Instead, Obama insisted that the environmentalists needed to keep channeling water away from this rich agricultural resource and from the farmers who had worked it for generations, thanks to their own engineering genius at defeating droughts, to pour that water into the Pacific Ocean instead. LINK

thats pretty much what we were getting on the news down here when that was happening.....

 

[KNB]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

Then you should have no problem proving that California did not have a plan in place to deal with a drought of up to 5 years.

Are you implying that Republicans have a plan for dealing with a five-year drought? You assholes can't even admit that the Greenhouse Effect is real. Why do you think that the weather is continually getting more chaotic year after year? Record hear, record cold, record droughts, record floods, record pollution, and your brilliant plan to fix it is to build another oil pipeline.

 

[boedicca]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

Then you should have no problem proving that California did not have a plan in place to deal with a drought of up to 5 years.

Are you implying that Republicans have a plan for dealing with a five-year drought? You assholes can't even admit that the Greenhouse Effect is real. Why do you think that the weather is continually getting more chaotic year after year? Record hear, record cold, record droughts, record floods, record pollution, and your brilliant plan to fix it is to build another oil pipeline.

I nominate you for Stupidest Noob of November 2013.

 

[FJO]

Does "KNB" stand for Know Nothing Bigot?

 

[KNB]

You are all so gifted and wise. Please explain the brilliant Republican Teabagger Conservative Christian Creationist plan for dealing with record droughts.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

Then you should have no problem proving that California did not have a plan in place to deal with a drought of up to 5 years.

Are you implying that Republicans have a plan for dealing with a five-year drought? You assholes can't even admit that the Greenhouse Effect is real. Why do you think that the weather is continually getting more chaotic year after year? Record hear, record cold, record droughts, record floods, record pollution, and your brilliant plan to fix it is to build another oil pipeline.

You are the one that said the story was wrong. The entire story is based on a single claim California had a plan in place, and the whackadoodle environuts blew it up.

Feel free to back it up by proving that there wasn't a plan, and that it isn't the environuts fault that it failed.

 

[Antares]

The Delta Smelt......MUCH more important than the "folks".

 

[Antares]

Delta smelt

Historically, delta smelt were relatively abundant in the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, with populations declining dramatically in the 1980s.[14] They were listed as threatened by both federal and state governments in 1993, and sustained record-low abundance indices prompted their listing as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act in 2010.[15][16] Critical habitat was listed for delta smelt on December 19, 1994.[17]

On August 31, 2007, Federal Judge Oliver Wanger of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California protected the delta smelt by severely curtailing human use water deliveries from the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta from December to June.[19] These are the pumps at the Banks Pumping Plant that send water through the California Aqueduct to Central and Southern California for agricultural and residential use. Judge Wanger's later accusations that federal scientists had not provided complete or accurate information were investigated by RESOLVE and shown to be unfounded.[20][21]

Although there have been allegations that this protection has hurt California's agricultural sector, with the devastation of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the Central Valley,[22] a 2009 United States Department of Agriculture study estimated that job losses due to smelt protection were closer to 5,000.[23] An additional 16,000 job losses in the Central Valley were attributed to the drought California had been experiencing in recent years.[23]


Delta smelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[R.D.]

You are all so gifted and wise. Please explain the brilliant Republican Teabagger Conservative Christian Creationist plan for dealing with record droughts.

Here's a thought, idiot. Don't empty the resoviors that were the safety net.

Not much can be done now that you lib enviowackos destroyed the backup plan

 

[francoHFW]

Absolute Pubcrappe as always...this is the worst drought since they've kept records...and I love smelt. lol

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Progressives are trying to destroy the USA and they're succeeding. Fuck the smelt.

 

[bripat9643]

You do know that HotAir.com is bullshit, right? "Sean Hannity covered this story on his show last night." That means it's wrong.

You know how we can tell when a claim is bullshit? Your name is on it.

 

[bripat9643]

You are all so gifted and wise. Please explain the brilliant Republican Teabagger Conservative Christian Creationist plan for dealing with record droughts.

You build reservoirs, dipshit.

 

[RoadVirus]

Video: The valley hope forgot. POSTED AT 3:35 PM ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 BY ED MORRISSEY

That would be the San Joaquin Valley in California, one of the most prolific agricultural areas in the country — or at least it was, until environmentalists turned off the water. Did they need it for people in response to the drought? No, because the water that would normally flow to the SJV is getting directed out to sea instead. Environmentalists have chosen to bankrupt an entire ecosystem of farms in favor of protecting the Delta smelt, a three-inch fish that neither feeds people nor eliminates pests from the water system. LINK


Actually, the problem for Central Valley farmers is that their water got taken from them by a federal judge, who put a baitfish ahead of human beings. Central Valley’s water-management system was designed to deal with droughts that last as long as five years, but the reservoirs that held its lifeblood got emptied into the ocean to rescue the Delta smelt.....

In fact, Obama threatened to veto a bill that would have resolved this situation almost exactly two years ago. Instead, Obama insisted that the environmentalists needed to keep channeling water away from this rich agricultural resource and from the farmers who had worked it for generations, thanks to their own engineering genius at defeating droughts, to pour that water into the Pacific Ocean instead. LINK

This is what's called "Using your ass instead of your head". Destroying an entire region's economy just to save a small fish.

 

[RoadVirus]

You are all so gifted and wise. Please explain the brilliant Republican Teabagger Conservative Christian Creationist plan for dealing with record droughts.

You build reservoirs, dipshit.

Then the Enviro-whackos will find a small bug that those reservoirs would threaten.