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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sun Jan 13, 2013, 12:06 PM Jan 2013

Climate Change Happening Faster than Expected - L.A. Times

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/11/nation/la-na-climate-assessment-20130112

WASHINGTON — The impacts of climate change driven by human activity are spreading through the United States faster than had been predicted, increasingly threatening infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, according to a federal advisory committee

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Climate Change Happening Faster than Expected - L.A. Times (Original Post) LiberalElite Jan 2013 OP

Faster, hotter, deeper, worse... Speck Tater Jan 2013 #1

Too bad we don't have weather modification programs RobertEarl Jan 2013 #2

Speck Tater

(10,618 posts)

1. Faster, hotter, deeper, worse...

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 01:48 PM

Jan 2013

Some climatologists are complaining that changes are happening faster than it takes to get an article written, submitted, peer-reviewed and published, so that by the time a report is in print it's already obsolete.

RobertEarl

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2. Too bad we don't have weather modification programs

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 02:40 PM

Jan 2013

If we did we could cause high pressure systems to be put in place at certain locations and alter the wind flows.

We went to the moon, why can't we alter winds?

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