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2015-02-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Dust Bowl to Return to Southwest and Carribean

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Posted by Bobby 2015-02-18 08:10|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
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#1 That drought occurred during what researchers have called the Medieval Climate Anomaly

Undoubtedly caused by rising CO2 emissions generated by all that industrial expansion during Medieval times. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-18 08:58|| 2015-02-18 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Crusaders.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-18 12:00|| 2015-02-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Thought it might have been a football bowl game.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-02-18 12:43|| 2015-02-18 12:43|| Front Page Top

#4 cow farts

Posted by Skidmark 2015-02-18 12:47|| 2015-02-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The solution to Global Warming: Die Now, Avoid the Rush.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-18 15:03|| 2015-02-18 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 In other words, the area may be reverting to its historically normal dry state. But when it does, take it as evidence of gerbil worming.

Posted by KBK 2015-02-18 16:01|| 2015-02-18 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 ...no doubt the Israelis and our own clever agriculture specialists at our many wonderful ag-tech colleges can come up with a good deal more.

Israeli specialist haven't and won't come up against the yet to be discovered Beakman Sand Flea that would stop any such development in CA for generations in litigation by the usual suspects exploiting even more pseudo science to promote Ludditism for the entire effected human population.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-18 17:35|| 2015-02-18 17:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Agricultural water use in CA is maddening, open flooded ditch irrigation still in use all up and down the Central Valley. You drive by wells overflowing and fields that look like rice paddies all the time on your way to the Sierras. Wasteful is not a big enough word for it, no controls whatsoever but I would get a $1,000 fine for washing my car on the wrong day.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2015-02-18 19:10|| 2015-02-18 19:10|| Front Page Top

#9 they are rice paddies

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-18 19:15|| 2015-02-18 19:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Then grow the rice in Louisiana where we generally have excess water. And grow cactus in deserts.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-02-18 19:49|| 2015-02-18 19:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmmmm....Cadillac Desert.....without the Cadillac, right Commodore Frank?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-18 20:07|| 2015-02-18 20:07|| Front Page Top

#12 my neighbor has a Cadillac Escalade Pickup.

WTF?

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-18 21:19|| 2015-02-18 21:19|| Front Page Top

#13 I've been itching to watch classic Henry Fonda films lately.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-18 23:52|| 2015-02-18 23:52|| Front Page Top

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