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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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The people in the article are not cursed with self-awareness.

I'm only surprised it didn't run in the NY Times Magazine.
 
I can't stop looking at this every day. It's astonishing how bad the fires are in Canada. Coupled with el nino holding the moisture down in the southern third of North America and the almost unprecedented temperature anomaly that Canada is experiencing, I don't see this ending soon. THere just aren't enough planes to fight these forest fires because there are so many and they're spread across an enormous swath of land.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?par...ire-200-0-50-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
The answer is for Arizona to **** off. Not to take water from someone else

we can’t normalize this ****

https://twitter.com/cflav/status/166...3v2cVkMjQylOVg
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Let's cut off all aid subsidizing the Midwest, too. It can't survive on its own; let it die.

Right?

AZ is dumb, but come on, about 70% of this country only exists because they're living off somebody else. If we ended trans-state payments and made everybody stand on their own, most of the country would be unpopulated.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
We all know you’re moving there.

we can’t keep expanding in places that can’t support it.

you think building piplelines for water is a good plan?
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The main users of water in Arizona and Nevada and California aren't residential customers, but farmers.

There is plenty of water for people to live there if we stopped growing shit in a desert. Vegas has cut its water usage by something like 15% even as its population has exploded, for instance.

As far as the pipeline, if they can make it work, including taking care of the waste from desalination process, then I don't care since it's taking ocean water.
 
The choices AZ has made are a big reason why they are in trouble.


maybe selling water to saudis wasn’t the brightest idea.

this is my greatest passion and something I’ll work on the rest of my life. And it’s part of my graduate degree. People are going to find that hard choices need to be made in some areas sooner than others.

az needs to be xeriscaping
 
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I know it's been floated by Alaska politicians in the past to build a water pipeline from up here down to the Lower 48.
 
Jimjamesak said:
I know it's been floated by Alaska politicians in the past to build a water pipeline from up here down to the Lower 48.
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Speaking of Alaska - a cousin just drove from Homer to Minnesota to move back home. I was very interested in the drive thru Yukon and NW territories. They said the beauty is unsurpassed but the frost heaves on the roads in northern area are so bad, it’s like a roller coaster.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Speaking of Alaska - a cousin just drove from Homer to Minnesota to move back home. I was very interested in the drive thru Yukon and NW territories. They said the beauty is unsurpassed but the frost heaves on the roads in northern area are so bad, it’s like a roller coaster.
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Doesn't surprise me, the road through southern Yukon and Northern BC can be rough in good circumstances and it was a rough winter.
 
"You live in a desert!!"
-Sam Kinison

I love how everyone has to just screw off because Kepler doesn't want to have to deal with how uncomfortable life in a desert is!

Maybe they should up and move like all women in Red States should...not our fault you chose to live there!
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
We all know you’re moving there.

we can’t keep expanding in places that can’t support it.

you think building piplelines for water is a good plan?
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Last visit of my daughter and son-in-law they are finally starting to think about getting out of Dodge. She's a teacher and the Nazis are getting up in everybody's faces. (Of course, they are here, too.) So, hopefully not. I whisper Denver and Portland to them. We can keep the Phoenix house and have 70-degree Christmas there.

The point is, most of the US is awful and wouldn't survive without being subsidized by the handful of livable places. Living in a desert is stupid (until solar power is perfected and they become the wealthiest places on the planet) and we shouldn't be there. Now repeat for places that are hideously cold, flood all the time, and have had 250 years to develop a self-sustaining economy but have failed miserably without a constant influx of federal dollars -- 80% of the south, the mountain west, and the prairie.
 
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