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wtmusic

(39,166 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 10:49 AM Apr 2013

Droughts, and their Unmentionable Cause, are Targets of Texas Water Fund



"Whether Texas lawmakers want to admit it or not, they are already planning for the effects of climate change.

Much of Texas has suffered a prolonged drought that has drained reservoirs to some of their lowest levels — this year could be even worst. The situation is so dire that the GOP-led Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a long-term “rainy day” fund that invests in water infrastructure to prepare for the more frequent droughts in coming decades, although they did not acknowledge the connection to climate change.

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Texas is one of many states to face the brunt of hotter, drier weather. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says Texas droughts are now 20 times more likely than they were in the 1960s. In 2011, a Texas climatologist described the drought as once in “maybe 500 or 1,000 years.” But “one more year and we’re already talking about a drought more severe than anything we’ve ever had.”"

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/02/1806511/texas-drought-fund/

C-c-clima...climate ch-ange. Climate change. Just takes a little practice.
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Droughts, and their Unmentionable Cause, are Targets of Texas Water Fund (Original Post) wtmusic Apr 2013 OP
Forget tar sands oil. Downwinder Apr 2013 #1
the comment there, from "Mulga M" stuntcat Apr 2013 #2

stuntcat

(12,022 posts)
2. the comment there, from "Mulga M"
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 03:32 PM
Apr 2013

what they say seems exactly right. It's just scary and sad that those people will do this to their kids' future, when makin' the babies is something they get so ethical and holy about.

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