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Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Riptide, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Oh, it's definitely expensive. The problem is -- they're not buying out the farmers. Or at least not enough of them. The water rights holders are holding onto those rights and have for a century or more. And we're reaching the point that even buying out the farmers, there's still not enough water. So is it cheaper to build and operate the desalination plants or put all the money into fighting the millions of acres that burn every year?

    Not enough snow. And at least out here, you can't take away Rocky Ford cantaloupes and Olathe corn.
     
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  2. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Good. Bastards wanted to rape the environment more than underage girls.

    A federal judge on Monday threw out a major Trump administration rule scaling back federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands across the United States, reversing one of the previous administration’s most significant environmental rollbacks.
    U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Márquez wrote that Trump officials committed serious errors while writing the regulation, finalized last year, and leaving it in place could lead to "serious environmental harm.”


    That having been said, I'll even admit that some of the wetland restrictions are overblown. Just because some place creates a mud hole the size of a bathtub when it rains and is bone dry the next day, that doesn't make it a wetland that needs to be protected.
     
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

  4. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    Rocky Ford melons and Olathe corn will disappear. One reason I think that is I started by career at the City of Aurora. The goal of Aurora has long been to add more citizens. Why this is so I never understood but it is certainly true. The city has annexed out to Byers and to Elbert County in order to zone more subdivisons for future growth.

    One reason Aurora, which is my hometown and where I have relatives, has grown as large as it has, despite being an exceedingly unattractive place to live, is that it has its own water department. Much of the rest of the area is on Denver water. And said water department could always find some farmer to buy water from.

    The vast majority of water use in Colorado is for agriculture. The subdivisions will get it.
     
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  5. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

  6. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Deep, dark depression
    Excessive misery
     
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  7. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...
     
  8. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Wooooooooooe
     
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  9. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

  10. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Gloom, despair and agony on me.
     
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  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    When everything is climate change, you can make the argument that nothing is.
     
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