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The Dehydrated States of America
Author: martin25 Jun
“Nor is it just the Southwest that could be drying out. The U.S. Drought Monitor reports that 50 per cent of the United States is currently experiencing unusually dry or drought conditions.”
The Toronto Globe and Mail has a provocative piece on the water crisis affecting much of the US. The unique thing about this piece is that we have not seen any US coverage that comes close to capturing the severity of this problem. Leave it to our neighbors to the north to tell us the reality that a lot of our press seems to discount. Instead we have endless blather about who caused climate change.
Thanks to Franke James.
Update: The news is reporting enormous forest fires in the Lake Tahoe area and southern Alaska today with hundreds of homes destroyed and dry conditions with high winds.
2 Responses for "The Dehydrated States of America"
Coverage on the water crisis in the US has not even come “close to capturing the severity of this problem” because …
Managers of US agencies with responsibility in weather and climate data collection, river basin modeling and flood prediction would not allow research on climate and hydrologic change to take place for many years. NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) is the agency responsible for hydrologic prediction in the US.
An internal NOAA NWS e-mail (below) shows that the Hydrologist In Charge (HIC*) of the NWS North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC), located in Chanhassen, Minnesota, ordered all work stopped which was related to climate and hydrologic change. The HIC was merely following the chain of command within the agency.
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From “Daniel Luna”
Date Tuesday, February 1, 2005 8:48 pm
To Pat.Neuman@noaa.gov
Cc Gary.Foltz@noaa.gov,
John.Halquist@noaa.gov,
Cheryl.P.Jordan@noaa.gov
Subject Re: 2005 AOP **
Pat,
Please come and speak with me concerning your questions, if you still have questions. I do not want to engage in a “long winded, never-ending” e-mail thread.
The bottom line is you were told many times to stop working in this area and that still holds true and will continue to hold true until you are directed
otherwise.
thanks
danl
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* HIC of NCRFC in 2005: Daniel Luna
** Annual Operating Plan
I would like to see some feed-back concerning my comments here. I don’t know if people here think I should not have included the NOAA e-mail addresses in my above comment or not. I did that to give it credibility mainly.
Also, I don’t know if some people here think I should also post the previous e-mail, which I sent to my NWS HIC supervisor.
Before I was removed by NOAA NWS from federal civil civil service in July of 2005, and after having served 29 years of what I view as excellent civil service, I saved e-mail correspondence which I thought could help in showing the public what went on at NWS (120 offices and nearly 5,000 employees in the US, concerning climate and hydrologic change and global warming.
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