Kinda like wind towers a good scheme but in realty a detriment to the earth.
Or electric car batteries
Kinda like wind towers a good scheme but in realty a detriment to the earth.
So you are taking 100 year time span out of millions and going to definitively say it's human caused? How do you know that same region didn't experience similar changes before humans were even here? I mean the whole area was covered with Dinosours at one time and then massive glaciers at another. Sure I get it humans change their habitat just like every other creature on earth but to say we can change the earths climate so drastically over a few 100 years is pretty far fetched. If you believe that then hell we should be able to reverse it just as fast no? All we need to do is go back to living like cave men??
During the 1960's Portland and Seattle were growing. They needed power. Investors pooled their money to build four large coal fired generators in Coalstrip Montana. At the time the investors were making money and coal was a "good" thing.
Today's west coast investors are putting money into wind energy placed in Montana and a natural gas pipeline from British Columbia. Problem is, coal is 4 cents a kilowatt hour, wind is 26 cents per kilowatt hour and gas is somewhere in the middle.
The consumer needs to be convinced or propagandized that higher energy rates are a good thing to save the world from dirty coal.
SWOOSH...and that's the game.
I don't know, maybe an increased water table? I'm not a water "expert" like you but I'm guessing the Red River system has seen much higher water levels in the last 1 million years then the last 100 because it's a pretty well known fact it used to be a fricking lake before man was a thought!What, in your opinion, would be another possible cause to look at in the overall increase in runoff during the past 100 years? And don't say more rain either because we have those records and there is not a correlated increase in precip.
ABSOLUTELY. Blame whatever and whomever you wish, but the reality is that MONEY drives all of this and the bottom line is that until men stop chasing the dollar and start putting quality of life before quantity of cash, I see very little improvement in our environmental situations. Carry On!!
Kurtr, wind was the only type of power that was running during Texas freeze up a few years back.
I don't know, maybe an increased water table? I'm not a water "expert" like you but I'm guessing the Red River system has seen much higher water levels in the last 1 million years then the last 100 because it's a pretty well known fact it used to be a fricking lake before man was a thought!
Ok so what were the James river flows like 2000 years ago? You're still trying to base everything off a blip in time.Just to be clear, the water in the water table comes from rain and snow.
Also, the Red River of the North is roughly 12,000 - 14,000 years old. So I shall refrain from commenting on what the streamflow was there, or in the James River basin a million years ago. One certainly doesn't need to be a climate scientist to recognize that as a red herring in a real discussion on the topic of human influence over our environment.