all the leaves are brown

Aug 01, 2006 14:47

The SF Chronicle reports the gloomy bullet points from a doomy official state report about climate change in California.

Without serious reduction in emissions:California will become significantly hotter and drier by the end of the century, causing severe air pollution, a drop in the water supply, melting of 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack and ( Read more... )

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but look at the bright side drieuxster August 1 2006, 22:16:15 UTC

We will be able to import labor from Iraq to pick what is left of the produce grown here....

Either that, or they will finally release the Space Aliens to do that job...

You folks really need to look on tghe bright side of all of this!!!

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mcpino August 1 2006, 22:27:40 UTC
...but it's a DRY heat...

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brianenigma August 2 2006, 02:17:51 UTC
DOOMED! DOOMED!

Pretty soon, Oregon will be the new California and Alaska will be the new Oregon. A few years after that, California will be the new Sahara, Oregon will be the new Mojave Desert, and Alaska will be the new California. Time to start buying beachfront property in Alaska! Well, maybe not beachfront exactly, but what will become beachfront after accounting for melting ice caps and rising water levels.

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springheel_jack August 2 2006, 13:50:31 UTC
I predict that LA will be a lot smaller by then.

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