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All over the globe their are examples of dried up lakes, increasing desertification, snow caps going ever higher up mountains, etc. etc.
Why doubt that Mexico isn't trending toward desertification and real problems with lack of water? Hell, many US states are amid this problem and are requiring Godlike efforts to work around them.
The OP is at least 'plausible' and probably 'probable' (sorry). I like to allow for a wide 'random' factor in predicting the future, which is why I say probably.
But the OP didn't have to terrorize the righty denial crowd with images of a billion Gonzalez' and Martinez' herding across the border in a state of hightened desperation... that was just mean.
The radical racist right will have destroyed this country by then with civil war. If they cant win elections they will scorch the sky and earth. They will not allow Obama to finish his term. Their hate has no stop button.
you had me with the Obama not finishing his term...what a rush
All over the globe their are examples of dried up lakes, increasing desertification, snow caps going ever higher up mountains, etc. etc.
Why doubt that Mexico isn't trending toward desertification and real problems with lack of water? Hell, many US states are amid this problem and are requiring Godlike efforts to work around them.
The OP is at least 'plausible' and probably 'probable' (sorry). I like to allow for a wide 'random' factor in predicting the future, which is why I say probably.
But the OP didn't have to terrorize the righty denial crowd with images of a billion Gonzalez' and Martinez' herding across the border in a state of hightened desperation... that was just mean.
LOL. uhm... errr.... well.... the OP relates to Climate Change driving less rainfall. it is not a paper on the results of desertification
the things you are talking about dried up lakes, desertification etc are more land use (abuse) issues. They are not related to climate change.
Glacier melt is related to climate change but not related to desertification. Glacier melt has been going on at a steady pace since about 1850. That points to a climate change process that predates Anthropogenic Global Warming.
But the OP didn't have to terrorize the righty denial crowd with images of a billion Gonzalez' and Martinez' herding across the border in a state of hightened desperation... that was just mean.
I realize that was the intent of the HeHiI (Highly Educated, Highly intelligent Idiot) who wrote the paper but honestly I provided the number. 6M new Mexicans over the next 70 years is a drop in the bucket compared to those that are already coming here illegally today.
And it is a wild assumption that those who will come (if we were to assume some truth in this work of fiction) will be illegal. MANY will come here legally and no serious person thinks it is a bad thing for Mexicans to immigrate to America legally. Beyond that, I grew up on a farm and if farmers from Mexico come to the US, then we will be getting salt of the Earth, hard working people. There isn’t a blessed thing wrong with that at all… Provided they come here legally.
All over the globe their are examples of dried up lakes, increasing desertification, snow caps going ever higher up mountains, etc. etc.
Why doubt that Mexico isn't trending toward desertification and real problems with lack of water? Hell, many US states are amid this problem and are requiring Godlike efforts to work around them.
The OP is at least 'plausible' and probably 'probable' (sorry). I like to allow for a wide 'random' factor in predicting the future, which is why I say probably.
But the OP didn't have to terrorize the righty denial crowd with images of a billion Gonzalez' and Martinez' herding across the border in a state of hightened desperation... that was just mean.
You are generalizing and specifically out of context to make a point. This is why those of your position don't want to talk about the details of the science. They claim when we focus on such, we are just confusing the issue. The problem is that those pushing this issue are unsupported scientifically in their claims. Oh sure, they can write up a nifty little research paper filled with assumptions and errors in methodology, but that isn't a position unless one is trying to show how a hypothesis finds its death rattle before it is scrapped and redone.
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