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Let me get this straight, you asked me to source my claim that climate change will affect america, so I use an official government report titled "National Clima

Let me get this straight, you asked me to source my claim that climate change will affect america, so I use an official government report titled "National Climate Assessment" which details the effects on America, and you're rejecting this canonical source? Your reply is "I'm not reading this, I did a fast google search instead?" Oof owie, my intellectualism. I shouldn't have to spoon feed you after I gave you an extremely high quality source. But whatever: "Climate changes pose challenges for an already parched region that is expected to get hotter and, in its southern half, significantly drier. Increased heat and changes to rain and snowpack will send ripple effects throughout the region’s critical agriculture sector, affecting the lives and economies of 56 million people – a population that is expected to increase 68% by 2050, to 94 million. Severe and sustained drought will stress water sources, already over-utilized in many areas, forcing increasing competition among farmers, energy producers, urban dwellers, and plant and animal life for the region’s most precious resource." >Theobald, D. M., W. R. Travis, M. A. Drummond, and E. S. Gordon, 2013: Ch. 3: The Changing Southwest. Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment, G. Garfin, A. Jardine, R. Merideth, M. Black, and S. LeRoy, Eds., Island Press, 37-55 http://swccar.org/sites/all/themes/files/SW-NCA-color-FINALweb.pdf http://swccar.org/sites/all/themes/files/SW-NCA-color-FINALw...

jessaustin 7y ago
Oh, now we're talking about the Southwest? I would have sworn that the topic was the Southeast? I've lived in both areas, and I would classify them as having different climates. Sorry, is that too specific?
- criley2 7y ago
  Haha you really do represent the ideal climate "skeptic" * reject evidence for non-sense reasons * over reliant on public search engines for quick, contextless answers * pedantry rather than discussion * a complete and total inability to find any meaningful evidence for yourself For the record, my original comment in this thread has always been about the Southwest, but since you're behaving as such an anti-intellectual bad actor, I'll continue spoon feeding you the data that you're clearly too lazy to even try to understand "Freshwater supplies from rivers, streams, and groundwater sources near the coast are at risk from accelerated saltwater intrusion due to higher sea levels. Porous aquifers in some areas make them particularly vulnerable to saltwater intrusion., For example, officials in the city of Hallandale Beach, Florida, have already abandoned six of their eight drinking water wells." >Obeysekera, J., M. Irizarry, J. Park, J. Barnes, and T. Dessalegne, 2011: Climate change and its implications for water resources management in south Florida. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 25, 495-516, doi:10.1007/s00477-010-0418-8. >Berry, L., F. Bloetscher, H. N. Hammer, M. Koch-Rose, D. Mitsova-Boneva, J. Restrepo, T. Root, and R. Teegavarapu, 2011: Florida Water Management and Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change. 68 pp., Florida Climate Change Task Force That's just one way that climate change is negatively affecting groundwater in the US south east and how freshwater is becoming more scarce in America due directly to climate change Have any more ignorance-fueling pedantry to use to avoid discussing the topic at hand? Maybe you'll try reading a source? Nah, you'll just Google search it!
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    Next time maybe just don't say something trivially verifiably false about recent rain totals in USA? Look I understand the world is ending. As excited as people get about trivial bullshit, doesn't it seem strange that despite their professed beliefs they've all done absolutely nothing about the end of the world? Maybe that conundrum could inform your future discussion board evangelism...
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jessaustin 7y ago

Oh, now we're talking about the Southwest? I would have sworn that the topic was the Southeast? I've lived in both areas, and I would classify them as having different climates. Sorry, is that too specific?

criley2 7y ago
Haha you really do represent the ideal climate "skeptic" * reject evidence for non-sense reasons * over reliant on public search engines for quick, contextless answers * pedantry rather than discussion * a complete and total inability to find any meaningful evidence for yourself For the record, my original comment in this thread has always been about the Southwest, but since you're behaving as such an anti-intellectual bad actor, I'll continue spoon feeding you the data that you're clearly too lazy to even try to understand "Freshwater supplies from rivers, streams, and groundwater sources near the coast are at risk from accelerated saltwater intrusion due to higher sea levels. Porous aquifers in some areas make them particularly vulnerable to saltwater intrusion., For example, officials in the city of Hallandale Beach, Florida, have already abandoned six of their eight drinking water wells." >Obeysekera, J., M. Irizarry, J. Park, J. Barnes, and T. Dessalegne, 2011: Climate change and its implications for water resources management in south Florida. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 25, 495-516, doi:10.1007/s00477-010-0418-8. >Berry, L., F. Bloetscher, H. N. Hammer, M. Koch-Rose, D. Mitsova-Boneva, J. Restrepo, T. Root, and R. Teegavarapu, 2011: Florida Water Management and Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change. 68 pp., Florida Climate Change Task Force That's just one way that climate change is negatively affecting groundwater in the US south east and how freshwater is becoming more scarce in America due directly to climate change Have any more ignorance-fueling pedantry to use to avoid discussing the topic at hand? Maybe you'll try reading a source? Nah, you'll just Google search it!
- jessaustin 7y ago
  Next time maybe just don't say something trivially verifiably false about recent rain totals in USA? Look I understand the world is ending. As excited as people get about trivial bullshit, doesn't it seem strange that despite their professed beliefs they've all done absolutely nothing about the end of the world? Maybe that conundrum could inform your future discussion board evangelism...
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