[Lowfer] Global cooling or warming???

[Mike.WE0H]

What's that thing Zack???

Maybe by the time Arizona runs low on water, the current crop of old 
timers/snowbirds will be 6' under and the water demand may be down? Just 
have to shut off the borders now, to keep newbies from migrating down there.

Mike
WE0H




Zack W wrote:
> How does the Great Conveyor Belt fit into this?
> 
> 73, Zack W9SZ


> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Chris T wrote:
> 
>>> Funny, what happened to the so called global warming?
>>>
>>    It's progressing according to the model predictions.  As the northern
>> latitude ice melts, it will cool the atmosphere immediately above it.  This
>> will cause noticeable cooling and violent storms for 10-20 years.  After the
>> bulk of the ice has melted, the atmospheric cooling will subside and the
>> subsequent warming will be fairly rapid.
>>
>>    One noticeable feature so far has been the southward shift of the jet
>> stream, which is primarily due to the colder atmosphere in the northern
>> latitudes.  This resulted in virtually no hurricane season this last year
>> due to shearing, and it is continuing in the form of unusually cold winter
>> conditions.
>>
>>    Another feature is the significant drying of the southwest and other
>> regions.  The pool level of Lake Mead is presently 45 feet above the point
>> where they will have to turn off the dynamos due to lack of sufficient
>> head.
>> And here in Arizona, we're drawing on ground water, some of which is over
>> 10,000 years old by way of oxygen isotope analysis.  When the CAP (Central
>> Arizona Project) canal is shut off due to insufficient water in the
>> Colorado
>> River, we'll only be able to support 4.3 million people, and we're already
>> over 6 million.  And that's if all other water resources are inumpaired.
>> When that happens and the ground water is depleted, you'll see more than
>> just simple water use restrictions out here.  They're already admitting
>> that
>> turning agricultural land into subdivisions was a big mistake.
>>
>> Chris Trask
>> N7ZWY
>> WDX3HLB
>> Senior Member IEEE
>> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/