From the "You Just Can't Make This Shit Up" files, three current news stories:
Lake Mead Could Run Dry by 2021!
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Scientists working at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography said Tuesday the West's largest storage reservoir faces increasing threats from a combination of factors including human-induced climate change, growing populations and natural forces like drought and evaporation.
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Study: Lake Mead could dry up by 2021 - USATODAY.com
In the "combination of factors", these scientists failed to include the El Nino, that we are no longer in. (which btw resulted in predictions of abnormally wet winters in the south west for the last two years. They had a drought instead). As Boe has noted a number of times, they don't call it 'global warming' anymore...now it's 'climate change'. I wonder why it needed a name change. Anyone?
Increasing human demands on the very finite supplies of water are what is sucking Lake Mead, (and other reservoirs on the Colorado River), dry. The areas served are desert, doncha know, and they have no where else to go for water. It's been a concern for years. They promised more water than the river can deliver. Do the math. Even in good years, the river system is taxed nearly to it's capacity.
Next up:
Record Snowfall in the Southwest
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Dry-winter forecasts were flat wrong this year for much of Colorado and the Southwest, and weather experts say they're struggling to understand why the snow just keeps falling.
Some forecasters blame climate change, and others point to the simple vicissitudes of weather. Regardless, almost everyone called for a dry-to-normal winter in Colorado and the Southwest — but today, the state's mountains are piled so thick with snow that state reservoirs could fill and floods could be widespread this spring.
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The Denver Post - Dry-winter forecasts miss mark
This boils down to Lake Mead, and other reservoirs on the Colorado being full in spring. And we see that 'climate change' snuck it's way into this story too. I know they want it both ways....but unfortunately, here in the real world, they can't. Either "Global Climate Warming Change" is going to steal all your water, or it isn't. It's not going to do both.
In addition to La Nina, which is making itself felt in the Pacific Northwest, (though not in the Southwest), we're seeing temperature anomalies in the northern, and southern hemispheres ranging from -0.08C to -0.15C. At the same time! It's hard to claim La Nina merely shuffles heat from here to there, or there to here, when it's getting colder both here, and there. This suggests one of two things, (and probably a combination of the two): We're losing heat through some as yet unidentified process, (that the IPCC will be shocked, SHOCKED, to find out about), or we're receiving less energy from the sun.
And finally:
Global Warming Blamed for Death of Mythical Creature
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Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.
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Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up - The Daily Record