What do you think about Chu's worst case projection that up to 90% of the

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Sierra snowpack could disappear? The Secretary of Energy warned climate change could wipe out California's farms by the end of the century by destroying snowpack that supplies much of the water to the state. In other words, the nation's "salad bowl" could become a vast dust bowl instead.

In his first interview since taking office, the Chu said his home state would suffer some of the most devastating effects of global warming if the world did not act to slow its advance.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5135OY20090205
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/california-agriculture-global-warming-47020402
 
Gore must have fed him some of those Mexican mushrooms they have been gobbling up purchased with their Occidental Petroleum profits.

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time to get those ocean going tugs busy gathering up all that loose sea ice and bring it in. Then we could also build a few more nuclear reactors and desalinize sea water. Or instead of letting all the rain that falls on California run out to sea we could capture it for use. Or we could recycle the output of our sewage treatment plants upstream of the input zone of the aquifers and make it fresh again, that would also be good for the trees. Warmers always look at the dark side because they do not have the education or imagination to see what could be.
 
Gore must have fed him some of those Mexican mushrooms they have been gobbling up purchased with their Occidental Petroleum profits.

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time to get those ocean going tugs busy gathering up all that loose sea ice and bring it in. Then we could also build a few more nuclear reactors and desalinize sea water. Or instead of letting all the rain that falls on California run out to sea we could capture it for use. Or we could recycle the output of our sewage treatment plants upstream of the input zone of the aquifers and make it fresh again, that would also be good for the trees. Warmers always look at the dark side because they do not have the education or imagination to see what could be.
 
Ludicrous. Looks like Al Gore has Chu snowed. It would have been nice to have a real scientist as the SecEng instead of a politician who owes Al Gore.
 
Tree lines were higher in the Sierra Nevadas during the MWP, which the AGW proponents insist didn't happen.

And there is nothing the world can do to stop the advance of warming unless we're causing it, and you have no more proof of that then you did 20 years ago.
 
That's cool. Californians can just emigrate to Greenland, because, as we all know, Greenland during the WMP was hot and green and supported hundreds of thousand of farms and settlements.
 
Climate change could boil the Pacific Ocean.

It won't however.

It's just more fear-mongering. And, yes, it's moronic for that many people to live in the middle of a desert and think they should have water in the first place.

Maybe we should advocate that California forcibly reduce its population because there are too many people living in a place that doesn't have enough naturally occurring resources?
 
Worst case scenario means you have as much chance of winning the lottery as that event happening.
 
It is nothing but fear mongering. Southern California will run out of water even without global warming and become a dust bowl anyway. It is a desert and the Colorado river will not be able to supply enough water to support it in the future.
 
or maybe not! either way theres nothing we can do about it other than desalinizing water from the pacific.
southern California actually ran out of fresh water in the 1930's & has been digging canals & building aqueducts to steal their neighbors water ever since then.
 
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