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

[KNB]

You build reservoirs, dipshit.

And fill the reservoirs with what? There's a drought. That means no rain.

Creationist Teabagger Christian Conservatives who deny science are not going to come up with a solution to the Greenhouse Effect.

whatever you say Irwin Corey

Hey, that's a good joke, monkey. Because I'm making shit up to be funny, right?

"Just build reservoirs and fill them with ocean water. Problem solved. Fuckin' derp!"

Brilliant plan, Teabaggers. Who will pay for this massive project?

 

[Harry Dresden]

And fill the reservoirs with what? There's a drought. That means no rain.

Creationist Teabagger Christian Conservatives who deny science are not going to come up with a solution to the Greenhouse Effect.

whatever you say Irwin Corey

Hey, that's a good joke, monkey. Because I'm making shit up to be funny, right?

"Just build reservoirs and fill them with ocean water. Problem solved. Fuckin' derp!"

Brilliant plan, Teabaggers. Who will pay for this massive project?

who is going to pay for that massive bullet train project?......

 

[KNB]

Do you Republicans think that no one in California has considered desalination? It isn't being proposed in a way that is beneficial to the People, but to the private corporations that run the facilities. Yeah, we know that you think that corporations are people, but they're not.

"San Diego would pay $2,042 to $2,290 for an acre-foot of water, more than twice what it pays to buy water from outside the region."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/us/california-desalination-clears-hurdle.html?_r=0

"The $350-million facility would supply 50 million gallons of drinking water a day -- enough to supply 300,000 people."
Proposed desalination facility in Huntington Beach wins permit - latimes.com

"The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the $300 million facility, which will produce 50 million gallons of drinking water daily, enough for 110,000 households.

That volume represents about 10 percent of the drinking water needs of San Diego County, home to roughly 3 million people in a region facing freshwater shortages due in part to a prolonged drought."
Desalination plant clears final California hurdle | Reuters

So the plan costs hundreds of millions of dollars, costs taxpayers twice as much for water as they're paying now, and only provides 10% of drinking water needs for one city. That isn't a viable solution to burning fossil fuels and clearcutting rainforests.

Conservative Christians are not brilliant scientists.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

It's not California's worst drought ever. That's bullshit. This one is only three years old.

Researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California's current drought is being billed as the driest period in the state's recorded rainfall history.

But scientists who study the West's long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches before that 163-year historical period began.

And they worry that the "megadroughts" typical of California's earlier history could come again.

Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell.

The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.

"We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years," said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. "We're living in a dream world."

Scientists: Past California droughts have lasted 200 years

Doesn't count, there wasn't anyone there taking pictures, and climate change has to be making things worse or we won't do anything about it.

Funny thing, if the climate in California ever actually changes droughts will be few and far between, not a common occurrence, but it is still the fault of climate change that we got this drought.

Plus, being a conservative, you never post links with facts to back up your claims, so this can't actually be true.

Tree Rings are the pictures.
There is a link right in front of your face, just click on it.

Sorry, forgot to use the sarcasm font.

 

[R.D.]

Why do the anti-science conservative posters never bother to provide links to hard evidence to support their conspiracy theories….


Oh, yeah… Never mind.

Do you practice being stupid? The links are in the op and links in the links. There is no conspiracy .....the backstop provide by science, technology and common sense was depleted by idiots much like yourself.

 

[tinydancer]

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.

I love the way you guys have zero ability to think a problem all the way through. I don't know why you behave this way. Is it because you just want to through mud or is it because you lack the ability to have two thoughts in your mind at the same time?
Suppose they are able to "resuscitate a salmon run." Besides the salmon, who else would benefit from the salmon returning. How about the rebirth of a tourism to the area? Did it occur to you that if the salmon come back the fishermen would also come back. Motels, restaruants, gas stations, and various stores would all profit by a return of the salmon. How about the locals? Would they profit by being able to supplement their food supply from the local river. Seems to me you would want a solution that benefits the local in town and the farmers in the area.

What on earth are you talking about?

Salmon are opportunistic feeders. They don't just eat smelt. I already put up a post about this.

 

[Erand7899]

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 failed to respond to whether, or not, California had a plan to deal with a five year drought. Instead, you used the tired Liberal/Socialist ploy of deflecting the debate to a completely unrelated topic, while dumping in some more Liberal/Socialist propaganda.

If man made climate change is occurring, there is not a damn thing that you, I, or Obama can do about it. When you get that through your petty little mind, then we can have a discussion on that topic.

The simple fact that you nutjobs fail to comprehend, is that carbon that is currently in the atmosphere will be there for about a century, and that is even if we don't add another iota of man made carbon to it. Consequently, if the carbon in our atmosphere now is causing climate change, that climate change is going to continue for many decades, regardless of what we do to destroy our current life style in a futile effort to stop it.

And, since the primary polluters in the world are not on board with the idea of self destruction for the sake of climate, we would be committing national suicide for nothing. Neither I, nor the vast majority of Americans are willing to return to cave dwelling just to make you nutjobs happy.

 

[MeBelle]

Do you Republicans think that no one in California has considered desalination? It isn't being proposed in a way that is beneficial to the People, but to the private corporations that run the facilities. Yeah, we know that you think that corporations are people, but they're not.

"San Diego would pay $2,042 to $2,290 for an acre-foot of water, more than twice what it pays to buy water from outside the region."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/us/california-desalination-clears-hurdle.html?_r=0

"The $350-million facility would supply 50 million gallons of drinking water a day -- enough to supply 300,000 people."
Proposed desalination facility in Huntington Beach wins permit - latimes.com

"The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the $300 million facility, which will produce 50 million gallons of drinking water daily, enough for 110,000 households.

That volume represents about 10 percent of the drinking water needs of San Diego County, home to roughly 3 million people in a region facing freshwater shortages due in part to a prolonged drought."
Desalination plant clears final California hurdle | Reuters

So the plan costs hundreds of millions of dollars, costs taxpayers twice as much for water as they're paying now, and only provides 10% of drinking water needs for one city. That isn't a viable solution to burning fossil fuels and clearcutting rainforests.

Conservative Christians are not brilliant scientists.

Conservative or Christian or Republican or whatever, has zero to do with the topic at hand.

I live in California.
California is a D state.

The Carlsbad project which was supposed to be up and running in 2012 (according to your link) STILL isn't finished.


https://www.facebook.com/CarlsbadDesal

 

[PredFan]

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

Reverse the damage that the environmentalists did to the SJV. There, done. Any more questions idiot?

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

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.

And fill the reservoirs with what? There's a drought. That means no rain.

Creationist Teabagger Christian Conservatives who deny science are not going to come up with a solution to the Greenhouse Effect.

Is that why the powers that be decided upon using the term climate change over "global warming"? Steadily choosing instead to back away to a much safer term in an attempt to be taken more seriously, apparently the branding ridicule associated with the original phrase was too much for the liberals to handle. If you believe in global warming you should be bold and have the confidence in yourself to stick with it, instead of making excuses for it ... or feeling the need that it's politically more important to save face.