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Decades-Long "Megadrought" Looms For Entire US As Lake Powell Runs Dry, NASA Warns

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With the number of people living in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains, and the volume of water they need, having increased rapidly over recent decades - and, with NASA scientists expecting these trends to continue for years to come - the current severe drought combined with the tapping of the Lake Powell's water at what many consider to be an unsustainable level, has reduced its levels to only about 42% of its capacity.

 

 

Forecasting that there is an 80 percent chance of an extended drought in the area between 2050 and 2099 unless aggressive steps are taken to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the researchers said their results point to a challenging - and remarkably drier - future.

As Reuters reports, scientists from NASA and Cornell and Columbia universities warned earlier this year that the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains regions are likely to be scorched by a decades-long "megadrought" during the second half of this century if climate change continues unabated.

More than 500 feet (150 meters) deep in places and with narrow side canyons, the shoreline of the lake is longer than the entire West Coast of the United States. It extends upstream into Utah from Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam and provides water for Nevada, Arizona and California.

 

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The peak inflow to Lake Powell occurs in mid to late spring, as winter snow melts in the Rockies. But since 2012, snow and rainfall totals have been abnormally low as the region suffered persistent drought.

As the following images show, all around the lake, strikingly pale bands of rock have been exposed by the receding waters...

See more stunning images here...

 

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Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:06 | 6563251 Mad Cow
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Strange how they always focus on lakes that have dams where humans control the level of said "lakes". Interesting.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:25 | 6563533 Professorlocknload
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++, Cow. There is plenty of water, it's just in the wrong place.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:08 | 6563261 Monetas
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The next time you treat yourself to an enema .... use distilled water .... less chance of a blood infection !

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:22 | 6564486 Calmyourself
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"treat yourself" Dude keep your kinks to yourself seriously..

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:11 | 6563266 dexter_morgan
Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:14 | 6563280 Smiddywesson
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IF CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES AS EXPECTED.  That's quite an assertion seeing that "Climate Change" hasn't been able to predict jack shit for the last 40 years.  In fact, a coin flip would have done better because it's not science, it's a scam.

 

Yes, there will be a mega drought, because there was mega development during an unusually wet period.  It happend to ancient cultures, and we are no different.

 

Stupid article.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:28 | 6563313 loregnum
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Global warming since no droughts have ever happened at any time in any place during the earth's history. Ever. History for the planet started 135 years ago.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:30 | 6563322 shankster
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Who'da thunk it? Build a lake in the desert and it runs dry....amazing huh? Stupid is as stupid does.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 01:38 | 6563987 zebrasquid
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How many millions of houses have they built in a state south of Georgia, where a Cat 5 hurricane is all but just a matter of time...

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:30 | 6563324 joego1
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No agua aqui senor.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:46 | 6563388 One And Only
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More immigrants will solve the problem.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:50 | 6563407 dexter_morgan
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LOL - wonder if there is an overflow of water in Mexico now days - nobody is drinking water down there, they are all up here.......maybe we should import that water also.....

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:50 | 6563403 coast
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Weather manipulation is scientifically very easy, all you have to have is the money to do it. Evergreen aviation, in Oregon, is a big sprayer of chemtrails. Evergreen is a government contrated delivery airline that travels the world with many planes. Thats just one of many. It is easy to do, the thing you have to decide, is WOULD THEY DO IT?  Not CAN they do it....Cause they can.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:50 | 6563404 coast
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Weather manipulation is scientifically very easy, all you have to have is the money to do it. Evergreen aviation, in Oregon, is a big sprayer of chemtrails. Evergreen is a government contrated delivery airline that travels the world with many planes. Thats just one of many. It is easy to do, the thing you have to decide, is WOULD THEY DO IT?  Not CAN they do it....Cause they can.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:51 | 6563413 lola jayne
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Again, I implore you to see geoengineeringwatch.org and watch Dane Wigington's presentations. The aerosol spraying of nano-metals, aluminum the greatest among them along with barium (more toxic than arsenic) dries out the atmosphere by preventing cloud formation and therefore little rain. They are dessicants that generally dry the atmosphere. This is why we are drying out. A warming planet should be wetter and not dryer, as the hydrological cycle naturally cools it. But we have human (man) intervention on a scale never before seen. Don't rip off your snarky comments. Please look into it, because you are breathing this stuff in as well. And it's increasing Alzheimers, neurological diseases tenfold and autism. Test your soil. Test your water. Find out.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:14 | 6564459 MSimon
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A warming planet should be wetter and not dryer

 

There is your error. The planet is cooling.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:53 | 6563418 dexter_morgan
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drink more Brawndo - it has electrolytes.

water? like in the toilet?

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:54 | 6563428 deerhunter
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Earth Day I think 1971 . World over population . Standing room only by 1990. F ing tree huggers will be the death of the country. When you come up with a commercially viable engine that can accomplish what the internal combustion engine does you can begin to talk is saving the fossil fuel. Whether oil is even a fossil generated item to begin with is up for debate .
It is however hubris to expect to grow flowers in the desert let alone silly high rises burning mega watts of electricity to run the AC..
Mother Nature is a bitch ! If you worship her though the people in Chile got her panties in a wad some how

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:57 | 6563438 dexter_morgan
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read the 'report from iron mountain' circa 1966 or 67. They were looking for something to control the masses and suggested environmental crap all the way back then.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:59 | 6563642 TeethVillage88s
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SECTION 7
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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

THE NATURE OF WAR War is not, as is widely assumed, primarily an instrument of policy utilized by nations to extend or defend their expressed political values or their economic interests. On the contrary, it is itself the principal basis of organization on which all all modern societies are constructed. The common proximate cause of war is the apparent interference of one nation with the aspirations of another. But at the root of all ostensible differences of national interest lie the dynamic requirements of the war system itself for periodic armed conflict. Readiness for war characterizes contemporary social systems more broadly than their economic and political structures, which it subsumes.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:05 | 6563467 TeethVillage88s
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Throw in a little Counter-Intelligence Psy-Ops and I see a fortune to be made for some Federal Insider or Connected Wealth Fund.

Also there is a little narrative about Agenda21 about how lands need to be taken away from the people.

Well the Land Rush, the Westward Movement of People, the Westward Men... they found an economic and wealth boom in the USA, but to make it work again you have to take the land from the people.

And Ted Turner was the first guy since 1970s to buy up the land and the rights to land.

The Wealthy will always find ways to take funds with big promises or contrived banking crisis... and they like to take over companies and land too.

1929 was a big crisis and the wealthy got even wealthier.

2008 was a crisis and the wealthy got even wealthier.

Corporate Bailouts are for crisis and the wealthy got even wealthier.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:57 | 6563437 sezwhom
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AZ is going to get so much frickin' rain this Fall/Winter, it'll make 1991 look like a drought.  

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:01 | 6563452 Feel it Reel it
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Climate Change, er.. I mean Global Warming or is it the Polar Vortex...Is a money Laundering scheme for the Politicians to fleece the Tax Payer under the guise of some study, foundation or business front in which that entity filters money back to the Politicians thru lobbyist/donor campaign contributions...Total Corruption

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:40 | 6564104 Victor999
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The money laundering scheme was built to take advantage of the reality of Climate Change.  Just because there are thieves profiting from it doesn't make it untrue.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:17 | 6564471 MSimon
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Just because there are thieves profiting from it doesn't make it true.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:20 | 6563512 roddy6667
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What did people do before lake Powell? Oh, that's right. They weren't stupid enough to live where there isn't any fucking water.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:23 | 6563521 innertrader
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Guess I'll have to start drinking my Jack straight!

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:24 | 6563525 t0mmyBerg
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where do these warmists come up with this shit?  Decades long drought caused by global warming?  wtf?  you mean like the periodic decades long droughts they have periodically had in that region since that became a region?  fucking asshats.  must be the work of pc principal

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:38 | 6564103 Victor999
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Einstein was right - Two things are infinite - the Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe!

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:27 | 6563538 Latitude25
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Well not the ENTIRE US.  My property in S FL is flooded and the chickens are swimming from too much rain.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:30 | 6563546 yogibear
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HP will help fix it by overseas outsourcing 60,000 more US jobs. 

The trend to overseas outsource continues without interruption.

Those underseas fiber optic cables should have plenty of traffic on them with all those servers in India.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:37 | 6563568 shovelhead
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My local lake/reservoir is filled to the very top and the old cistern in my yard is full up too.

Drought is not a problem for me so I don't worry much about Lake Powell. Deserty places do deserty shit from time to time. People gotta suck it up and move.

Ask them Anastasi Injuns.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:35 | 6564101 Victor999
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Well, I guess the world can relax then.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:51 | 6563616 Joke Heros
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Just came back from Vegas. Seas of vast tract homes, duplexes, pushing all the way into the hills in all 4 directions. Anyone who drives there knows the vast dry desert expanse you have to pass through to get there. They just don't give a fuck about water.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:44 | 6563772 AntiFabian
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Those lakes were built for electric power their by product was they enabled massive population explosions. Heck who wouldn't want to live in a place that has almost zero humidity, sunny days, no winter, no mosquitoes, gambling, golf, and LA a short trip away. Hmmm, gues they better build more reservoirs.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:52 | 6563619 djsmps
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2099? I'm scared Becky.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:33 | 6564099 Victor999
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No, but your children and theirs should be.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 22:59 | 6563646 Shadow1275
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*Whistles* Collapsing Economy, Socialist governments, dumber populations, and now mass drought? No mercy. No mercy at all.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:00 | 6563648 Nick Jihad
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So the enviro-zealots at NASA have found a new form of enviro-apocalypse to threaten us with?  Big yawn. NASA "scientists" are just a bunch of wackos with degrees and gummint jobs.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:38 | 6563753 AntiFabian
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Plus they supplement their pay by writing BS for the pro man made global warming lobby. It pays very well to push that pseudo science. Heck if I could write a few papers that the sky is falling and get paid enough to buy a loaded Panamera I'd be a global warming alarmist too.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:32 | 6564098 Victor999
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Of course...they photo-shop photos like the one in the article to make us thinnk that these things are happening.  They are so sneaky!.... ;-)

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:00 | 6564654 2muchtax
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It took 100 million years to carve those rocks. The photos are comparing the lake since the Clinton administration.

When I was a kid we would go to the top of MacAfee's Knob ~3000ft and collect sea shells. Arizona is full of whale bones. North Africa used to be a jungle. The north pole used to be the south pole. Every once in a while a huge rock falls out of the sky and wipes out most life on earth. California is in a 500 year drought...did the Indians cause the last one?

it's a dangerous world.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:14 | 6563668 Silvergood
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THE DROUGHT IS COMPLETELY MAN MADE.......

HAARP/Ionospheric heaters, and chemtrailing are the problem.  In gods name friends, wake people up already before we are completely destroyed.

If you don't know about this go to:

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

or go to "The HAARP report" at You Tube.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:30 | 6563723 One of We
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Nick Begich has some good chats on HAARP too....

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:13 | 6563682 BudFox2012
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Let me guess, if we pay Carbon Taxes to Al Gore and Jp Morgan we can fix this, right?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 02:57 | 6564059 GoldIsMoney
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Yes you know they can make it rain or so. And yes the carbon tax billionaires know surely how to be good friend with that kind of Al Gore or however the names of the politicians may be.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:27 | 6563709 One of We
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I'm working with a Chinese construction firm to extend my gutters from SE Alaska down to AZ.  We'll have that pond filled up in no time....

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:33 | 6563738 AntiFabian
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Please, enough of this if we don't act now non-sense. "Man made" global warming is finally being realized as the 21st Century's pseudo science just as Eugenics was debunked in the last Century.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:30 | 6564096 Victor999
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And just who is finally realising this?  Not any competent climate scientist I know of.  You have a lot of so-called scientists paid by the Koch brothers, but aside from them, pretty much zilch.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:40 | 6564571 2muchtax
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Politicians have been doing this climate thing for thousands of years. They used to throw us in volcanoes, make us do rain dances and burn our single ladies at the stake. I guess we should be happy that they became a little more civil.

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:37 | 6563751 PoasterToaster
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Looks like government mismanagement of the "water rights" they created and claim to own.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 02:55 | 6564055 GoldIsMoney
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Indeed one might guess what would happen if water prices would be market prices....

Thu, 09/17/2015 - 23:56 | 6563797 rejected
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This from the u.s space agency that has to depend on their stated enemies for technology (China) and booster rockets (Russia) to put ameriKans in space?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 00:07 | 6563819 cherry picker
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They blame the automobile, but if there were no cars we would need horses.  Assuming every American had a horse.  Some would own 20 or more and others would have none, so I figure I can't go wrong equilizing the population with a horse population.

If there were over 330 million horses in the US mainland, eating, drinking water, farting and fertilizing the ground every day, I think it may be a lot worse than most vehicles which are only used part of the day on average.

The nice thing about being a horse, they don't have immigration problems. :)

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 00:59 | 6563925 cheech_wizard
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http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/

Surprisingly the worlds biggest polluters are the cargo container ships that haul all those trade items around the globe... One cargo ship pollutes as much as 50 million cars...Based on the estimates of the number of cars in the world, it only takes about 15 cargo ships to put out as much pollution.

Humans always fix the wrong problems first. Slight glimmer of hope though, although the shipping companies have fought against change, they are reluctantly cleaning up their act.

http://www.bunkerworld.com/news/topic/legal

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 00:08 | 6563823 StychoKiller
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"Lumber up, limbo down!"

How low can you go!?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 00:45 | 6563888 Lookout Mountain
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NASA can't even reliably put up American-made rockets into space, anymore. Has to buy the launch vehicles from Russia . . . .

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 01:39 | 6563988 Bazza McKenzie
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But they can tell us what the climate will be in 50 years time.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:54 | 6564168 Lucky Leprachaun
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...and when most weather forecasters can't give us an accurate picture for next week. Not in this neck of the woods anyway.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 01:24 | 6563960 Advoc8tr
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... and no matter how many nukes, carriers, drones or printers you have up your sleeve you can't print water. Hard to steal and transport in sufficient volumes too.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 01:44 | 6563994 tarabel
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People seem to think that water is a burn-it-up resource like gasoline. It isn't.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 02:29 | 6564033 Freedumb
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Don't you all see the green shoots? The plants grow vigorously in Lake Powell! A slight reduction in interest rates will guarantee their continued success.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 02:56 | 6564041 rickv404
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This is not evidence of "climate change". It is evidence of drought. Don't buy into that Marxist clap-trap.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:20 | 6564068 Arthur Schopenhauer
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We are hearing about the hundreds of thousands (is it really millions?) of people streaming over the borders of Middle Eastern countries like rats.

They say it is because of war. What if it isn't because of war?

What if this war is actually caused because these people are starving to death. They can't grow anything.

...and they literally can't find anything to eat anymore... they are going wherever they can to find something to eat?

Did you ever even consider the prospect of that for one second?

That ain't got a damn thing to do with no Marxist claptrap, fella. Its real.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:21 | 6564089 atthelake
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Or, could it be, the American government is bombing them back into the stone age? Syrians are running away from our bombs.  This is on us and it will continue to be on us until we stop bombing innocents for the MIC, banksters and crazy billionaires.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:12 | 6564093 Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is because of a conflict over resources. We are told it is over oil. What if it isn't because of oil but instead fighting over food? How do you know? I don't know. You don't know. I guess we'd actually be there to know.

I'll tell you one thing. I don't want to be there to find out the truth, one way or another.

Unprecedented levels of weapons sales are fueling the carnage. And amidst the ongoing crisis of people risking death by flight to avoid death by war, Britain's Cameron wants more bombing. The United States cashes in by selling more weapons to Saudi Arabia, which is worried about Iran. Russia sells more weapons to Iran, which is worried about Saudi Arabia. GermanyBritain, and France all reap the economic benefits of arming a region awash in arms and armed conflicts, and regimes remain in power by using their arms against their own people.

 

Not only will none of this help solve the refugee crisis: It will only make the crisis worse. Perhaps disaster relief for refugees is considered yet another form of public subsidy to private industry. Given that the wars keep getting worse, and the arms inevitably end up in the hands, it's certainly not about national or international security.

But even that's not the real story. It's only part of the real story, as are the refugees themselves. The real story is indeed about national security, but it is about the actual cause of the crisis.

The arms sales are but a cash grab. The refugees are just a cost of doing business.

The real story about national and international security is climate change.

The 2006 Stern Review, which was the most comprehensive study ever undertaken to assess the economic consequences of climate change, estimated there would be some 200 million climate refugees by the middle of this century.

That number now looks conservative.

"When temperatures rise to that level, we will have disrupted weather patterns and spreading deserts," he said.

"Hundreds of millions of people will be forced to leave their homelands because their crops and animals will have died. The trouble will come when they try to migrate into new lands, however. That will bring them into armed conflict with people already living there. Nor will it be an occasional occurrence. It could become a permanent feature of life on Earth."

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:15 | 6564082 Batman11
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I was watching a UK documentary "Horizon" many years ago about human settlements built very near currently dormant volcanoes.

(They will not stay that way).

Part of Naples, Italy is built on a super-volcano.

An article in New Scientist went into detail about the many critical structures built near the San Andreas fault in the US.

It looks as though California is going to be the first lesson in demonstrating nature is more powerful than 21st Century man.

There will be more.

 

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:16 | 6564084 atthelake
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In the 1970s, our American government announced they could control weather.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:04 | 6564119 lakecity55
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This happened to the Anasazi peoples about a thousand tears ago. I think it is a cycle.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 03:21 | 6564090 Fireman
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Amazing what a collection of psychos, losers and killers can do with a pristine continent in a couple of hundred years. The disease called USSA is something that humanity will have to cure. Time is running out.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:09 | 6564122 Lookout Mountain
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Don't look to humanity for a cure. That's the source of the disease. But nature has a way of shaking it off. As it is doing.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:09 | 6564123 Lookout Mountain
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Don't look to humanity for a cure. That's the source of the disease. But nature has a way of shaking it off. As it is doing.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:27 | 6564502 2muchtax
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Please tell us where it it that humans are taking good care of the planet

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:09 | 6564121 buttmint
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...we all need to re-read the excellent Marc Reisner book "Cadillac Desert."

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:51 | 6564163 Lucky Leprachaun
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But would not one really wet and cold Winter (major snow in the Rockies) not result in floods that would fill up every nook and cranny of that region?  Seriously?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:10 | 6564126 Lookout Mountain
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NASA is always looking for a new source of funding. And we are supposed to trust their opinion when they can't even reliably launch vehicles into space anymore?  Right now they depend on the Russians. Nuff said.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 04:49 | 6564162 Lucky Leprachaun
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Their decline can be attributed in great part to their revised priorities of promoting Muslims and other minorities who, apparently, 'need to feel good about themselves'.  http://www.westernjournalism.com/bout-little-less-muslim-outreach-little...

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 05:30 | 6564194 gmak
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Idiots.(NASA and authors) Climate change has nothing to do with drought. As the alarmists are always fond of saying with regards to cold winters: "That's just weather".  There is a history of long drought and abundant rain cycles for the west of the United States, especially in the Southwest.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 05:36 | 6564198 Joe A
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I guess it will hit Mexico too. If not, then they can be grateful for that fence along the border with the US and might have to reinforce it here and there to keep the thirsty northern neighbours out.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 06:21 | 6564235 BidnessMan
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Colorado River dries up before it gets to Mexico and the Gulf of California. So never hits Mexico like it used to.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:17 | 6564468 Joe A
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Yep, we're all in this together.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:36 | 6564557 Billy Sol Estes
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Do you know why? Guess, please guess. Is it from lack of rain and clIMate ChaNGE?

No my friend, it is because too many people withdraw water from it and senior water rights. Government involvement, nothing to do with weather.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 05:49 | 6564213 BurningBetty
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I find it interesting how we humans percieve time and span of it. 

Look at those pictures. What do they tell you? That the water has been drying up for ages in those places. Probably over thousands and thousands of years. Look at where the water was in the top picture and where it is now. And here we humans get in and want a change within a span of 10 years, when these things have been going on over thousands and thousands of years...really?!

It's like the economy today. People want everything today. Preferably on credit if they can't afford it. Now...we need to change things now. I need that thing now. Forget about working and putting the effort into getting it.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:39 | 6564824 headhunt
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Those high water lines are pretty recent and really not in a geologic time frame.

They are in an F'ing desert, previous to this drought there was an unusually wet period for that area and now it has stopped. Live in a desert and you will run out of water. 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 06:39 | 6564250 crashguru
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These idiots cant tell us what the weather looks like next week, but know what the weather will be in 2050 ...

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:05 | 6564279 EddieLomax
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Why not just build some mega project canals to transport the water around?  It seems odd that the US is incapable of putting engineering solutions into practice.

Although at the same time the relentless increase in population will cause it all to go wrong eventually, it just seems odd that the Chinese have the capital to build man made islands out in the Spratleys while the US are unable to dig a simple canal for water in their own country to fix a probem that is already apparent.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:09 | 6564287 overmedicatedun...
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eddie, they are in the business of making problems not solving them.  get on your iphone and update your facebook page, you know vitual stuff is so much better than say irrigation canals or real world solutions..not kidding.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:58 | 6564407 DPLETTENBERG
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I was thinking the same for years. Having droughts in one part of the country and floods elsewhere makes no sense. The interstate highway system didn't exist until the mid 1950's and we built that which was a major contributing factor to the growth of the U.S. After WWII. But that was before endangered species, the EPA and wetlands.

Look at all of the drama just to try to get something as simple as the keystone pipeline a reality. A national irrigation system would be a tremendous benefit but we give the snail dater higher priority.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:34 | 6564543 Billy Sol Estes
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Sounds like a truly awful idea, a statists dream.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:33 | 6564541 Billy Sol Estes
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Are you progressive or something? Do you honestly fucking want water redistribution managed by this fucking government?

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:33 | 6564802 headhunt
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Here's a thought - if you live in a desert you are going to run out of water.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:09 | 6564288 Grandad Grumps
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Maybe the so called "GeoEngineers" should stop manipulating the weather.

The GeoEngineers are apparently trying to manipulate migration patterns through a series of destructive climate change actions.

Who are the GeoEngineers and who is the power behind them?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:25 | 6564324 jakesdad
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don't worry - the fed can just print water!

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 07:50 | 6564368 Crocodile
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Climate-Change, the new "Global Warming" propaganda has nothing at all to do with the science that has been shoved down our throats, but it does have to do with at least three things 1) weather modification via HAARP & 2) the LOVE of money via climate tax & 3) the loss of liberty that results from providing the solution that they caused & 4) to divide us.

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Note that NASA has become less about space exploration and more about military endeavors (probably always true).

A casual reading of the most prominent "gloabal warming" sites will read with phrases like "experts think", "Scientist think", "Science says", or Climatologist suspect" and then teach as though it was fact when you look at the words think, suspect, believe means they DO NOT KNOW.  What we do know is they are heating the ionosphere with HAARP, we have detonated numerous nuclear weapons across the N. Hemisphere.  No this is about controlling the weather for a vast weapon, getting money to pay for it via taxes and creating fear to give up liberties...all Agenda21 goals.

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Consider we talk about the need to save the arctic while at the same time there is a rush by all nations to make-claim on the oil reserves. Also consider most of the sea ice in under water; if it all melted, the water levels would lower, not raise, a unique property of water; it expands and displaces when melted.  Also, not mentioned is the net increase of ice in the Antarctic.  Christ will cause a permanent universal melt-away of this earth that would make a global warming alarmist envious; with a word.

 

This is a disposable planet and was made for man who was commanded to subdue it for the good of ALL and to care for it; we have been here a short time and the evidence of a worldwide global flood about 4000 years ago is abundantly clear to both the scientist and the laymen, but since no one wants to submit or even admit that their is one Sovereign over all the universe and all that it contains, they chose to believe the lie to they own destruction.  Remember that there is a vast abundance of resources for all and listen to this, we are all related. 

 

Did you ever stop to think that one creature, made ofter God's image, was made UPRIGHT (both literal & spiritual implications) and that is man.  A very few animals can walk upright, such as a bear, but only man was man in God's image and was made upright; that is a wonderful thing.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:11 | 6564451 brushhog
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You're a religious psychopath and a danger to society. God is a fairytale, the bible is a story book written by primative morons. God is made in our image because we made him up to convince ourselves that we are special. Get your head out of your ass, when the earth dies, we die. If there were a god he'd want you to be a caretaker to his creation.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:00 | 6564652 Dickweed Wang
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You're a religious psychopath and a danger to society. God is a fairytale,

Bets are you will change your mind on this issue during the last 5 minutes of your conciseness before you die, if you even are granted that luxury (i.e. if you are not killed instantly someday).  I am not a religious nut job but I have experienced too many unexplainable things in my life to not believe in GOD.  I pray for your soul, brother . . . .

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:06 | 6564431 brushhog
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Tilte says "entire US to be in drought", then goes on to say "Southwest and Central plains" will be in drought. ZH is becoming like a tabloid. Thats low standards, if you want people to take you seriously , DON"T FUCKING LIE TO THEM. Basic journalism 101.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:13 | 6564458 NoWayJose
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I think I see Russian missile batteries on the 2015 photo!

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:31 | 6564520 Billy Sol Estes
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You fucking stupid idiots. Do you know why it is going dry??!??!! Do you have even the slightest clue?!?! Because THERE WAS NO LAKE THERE TO BEGIN WITH. It isn't even a lake by definition, it is a MAN MADE RESERVOIR with some government built DAM. FUCKING ANTI-SCIENCE PRO-IGNORANCE ARTICLE with knee jerk reactions about drought and what we need to save our water supply. Rah rah rah mofos.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:33 | 6564537 Weirdly
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Not difficult to fix.  Reengineer the stormwater systems to stop, slow and infiltrate rainwater.  Plant trees on all Western facing slopes.  Trees make rain.  This is basic 5th grade science class hydrology cycle stuff here.  

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:06 | 6564664 Billy Sol Estes
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No dumbass, trees grow there because it was already raining there millions of years ago. Trees emit water at dawn and over night through evapotransporation. Your 5th grade teacher must have been dumb as a rock. By your insane logic we can plant trees in the desert and it will bring rain...

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 11:52 | 6565454 Weirdly
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We can plant trees in a desert and make it rain.  Because you don't know how to do it does not mean it can't be done. 

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 08:46 | 6564596 Zoomorph
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They can't model climate a couple years in advance, but they can model it 50 years in advance? I call bullshit.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:05 | 6564669 Billy Sol Estes
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To really stump them, ask your local AGW Priest if he would be okay in reversing the climate back to the Pleistocene ice age with glaciers in Ohio.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:12 | 6564698 maplepeg
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Hey ZH - should we be expecting a Ramirez cartoon about how this is all Obama's fault? Would this perhaps be an appropriate occasion to run a cartoon about being in denial?

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:19 | 6564728 synsolve
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oh yah...The Great Mulsim-in-Chief can do no wrong.  Just continuing the great work he started destroying the country.

Sure gepelpam,

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:32 | 6564797 Billy Sol Estes
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I hate those cartoons.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:23 | 6564752 BernankeHasHemo...
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Reading the comments on zerohedge makes one marvel at the stupidity of its readers. I guess this is where all the Republitard anti-science wingnuts come to gather and egg each other on. We are now actually living in the world envisioned by the film "Idiocracy". "I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out."

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:31 | 6564794 libertysghost
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And us term "anti-science" to describe peope testing the "theory" of AGW doesn't even register in your brain as ironic at all?  Yeah...STFU idiot.  You proved you have no idea of what science is supposed to be already. 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 10:30 | 6565026 aardvarkk
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Each side of the left-right "divide" has their own markers.  If you see a comment that includes the term "anti-science", it is always...ALWAYS...a devotee of the left side of that "divide".  And he/she/it is ALWAYS convinced that they are the smartest one in the room.

I know this for fact mainly because until I was about 25 I was one of them.  Then somehow I grew up/grew a brain and mostly started to shut up about stuff like that, because no matter what I said it came out sounding dumb to my own ears.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 14:51 | 6566382 BernankeHasHemo...
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And I suppose you are one of the 40% of Republitards who believe that Ted Cruz was born in the United States when even he admits he was born in Canada. Don't confuse them with the facts! You are a bunch of fucking brain dead morons. And I bet you live in the RSA (Retard States of America) where the average IQ is at a retard level.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:25 | 6564760 Fishthatlived
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Maybe NASA will fix it. I mean after all, with all that muslim outreach they do surely they've found one with a brain.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:28 | 6564778 Keynesians say ...
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PRINT MOAR WATER

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:46 | 6564847 Lostinfortwalton
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The problem is the Colorado River is so small in the best of times. I did the math and figured the flow of the Mississippi could fill up Lake Meade in about a day; the Amazon could do it in around 45 minutes.

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 10:48 | 6565086 MoHillbilly
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Math is to hard, I'll stick to climate change, and don't give any that  Ohh , Las Vegas uses more water today than in 1936

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 09:46 | 6564845 DullKnife
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Ahem....as an Enlightened Californian, clearly of above average knowledge and intelligent, I would like to say that the solutions are clear and obvious.

Dought?

1. Raise taxes to end the drought and stop global warming.

2. Import another 30 million illegals...they will flush toilets which will add water to the environment.

And there you go!   Easy Pleasy!

BTW, any climate change doubters should be jailed.

Also, I must say that I am positively INCENSED at the airplanes that fly low over my house.

When I bought my house, here adjacent to the airport, I never thought it would be noisy.

Why can't we pass a law that says no airplane flights between sundown and sunrise (though 9am would be my preference).

Ian Shmart, LA, Calif

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 10:00 | 6564902 Jameson18
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Stop living in a f in desert also when it rains and it will rain these morons will tell you its never happen in years it must be GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE STFU.

 

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 12:00 | 6565486 fowlerja
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Is everybody mad today because the Fed did not raise interest rates.  We all know that water levels fall when interest rates fall and rise when rates rise. Don't blame Mother Nature...blame Jane Yellin (in the desert) chairperson. We are living in a mega drought in interest rates...payback time is coming...

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 12:19 | 6565597 fowlerja
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I am somewhat puzzled about the conclusions of this report...if Lake Powell is at 42% of capacity in 2015..what the hell are they worrying about 2050..damn the lake will be completely drive by then..

Fri, 09/18/2015 - 12:24 | 6565628 Weirdly
Fri, 09/18/2015 - 23:45 | 6568114 rocketroj
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Check out the rainfall stats from Central/South Florida.  Those Floridians are hogging all the rainfall.  Just ask the Oman to write one of his executive orders commanding FL to give it up to AZ.. Problem solved.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 00:13 | 6568175 Money Boo Boo
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watching americans try and debunk global warming like its some type of conspiracy is like watching hobos fight over an empty box of crispy cremes

 

_ a total waste of time

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 02:26 | 6570744 MEAN BUSINESS
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funded by Crackpots Incorporated Of America like:

Suspicious Observers aka electic universe theory

(no website provided)

&

Geoengineering.skittles

LULZ Money BB

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 04:10 | 6577887 onmail1
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It is said that when the ruler(s) of a nation is evil 

There is drought & bad times for that nation

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