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Old 08-12-2012, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Oil companies desperately seek water amid Kansas drought - Aug. 10, 2012

It is definitely a race to the bottom. Water is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century. I don't see this ending well...
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Old 08-25-2012, 02:06 AM
 
Location: Topeka, KS
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...ending well...
Enough with the puns.

Oh, and try as you might, you aren't quite gaining the separation you crave...
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Old 08-25-2012, 10:09 AM
 
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Oil companies desperately seek water amid Kansas drought - Aug. 10, 2012

It is definitely a race to the bottom. Water is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century. I don't see this ending well...
I don't know. Seems like a bit of melodrama. Droughts happen.
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Old 08-25-2012, 12:20 PM
 
Location: Nebraska
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Just one year ago flooding was the big crisis along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers basins. It is too bad we don't have a system in place to divert floodwaters to areas when/where needed. I have posted several comments about the topic in the past few years.
GL2
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Old 08-25-2012, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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I don't know. Seems like a bit of melodrama. Droughts happen.
Droughts in much of Kansas will become more frequent as temperatures increase. You should know this... Higher temperatures yield a higher rate of evapotranspiration- regardless of precipitation amount. This will become an increasing problem in oil patch regions of the US in semi-arid climate regions.
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Old 08-25-2012, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Enough with the puns.

Oh, and try as you might, you aren't quite gaining the separation you crave...
I'm not sure what you're talking about
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Old 08-25-2012, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Just one year ago flooding was the big crisis along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers basins. It is too bad we don't have a system in place to divert floodwaters to areas when/where needed. I have posted several comments about the topic in the past few years.
GL2
It would be great if a system like this could be designed and implemented- while being effective and cost efficient. I know that they divert excess precipitation in wet years to recharge the Ogallala Aquifer which is definitely a great thing.
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Old 08-25-2012, 06:41 PM
 
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Droughts in much of Kansas will become more frequent as temperatures increase. You should know this... Higher temperatures yield a higher rate of evapotranspiration- regardless of precipitation amount. This will become an increasing problem in oil patch regions of the US in semi-arid climate regions.
This is a good point. I guess I was not picking up on your timeframe of concern.
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Old 08-25-2012, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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This is a good point. I guess I was not picking up on your timeframe of concern.
The time frame is longer term. I have seen GIS modeling from KU that predict severe problems for all types of farming and ranching in Kansas down the road because of a warmer climate. This doesn't mean that wet years will not occur, it will mean that droughts will become much more common and intense over time. The Topeka NWS has indicated that it has been the warmest year (2012) since records have been kept- over 130 years. So if warmer years like this one become much more common the economic implications will be extremely severe. Farmers can only adapt to a certain point, and you can't grow crops with temperatures higher than 110F. One reporting station in Graham county near Hill City reported an air temperature of over 121F this summmer.
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Old 08-26-2012, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
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Looks like we need Al Gore to save us.
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