Встреча

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	Дата	15.09.2014 14:13:29
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Учёные предупреждали

массовое заселение Запада США чревато, поскольку климат там подвержен резким колебания длительностью в несколько сотен лет. Т.е. в 19 веке граждане въехали и всё было хорошо "травка зеленеет , солнышко блестит", а потом (через двести лет) - глобальная засуха. Но честных учёных послали на..., была выработана теория, что чем больше фермеров, тем больше дождей ...
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John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) was a geologist, explorer of the American West, a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, a director of major scientific and cultural institutions. and a soldier. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first known passage through the Grand Canyon.

Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies that were an accurate evaluation of conditions for development of the arid West. The arid West has experienced a continuing population expansion despite Powell’s early warnings made in the late 19th century. Powell led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River in 1869 exploring the Grand Canyon. Powell conducted an extensive survey of the geography, climate, hydrology, vegetation, topography, and geology of the American West and reached a conclusion that the U.S. government should abandon any ambitions of populating this arid region. In a notable report to the General Land Office, Powell argued that only small-scale irrigation in the West would even be possible to support only a small number of people. Powell calculated that, even if all the water in western streams were harnessed, only a tiny fraction of western land could be irrigated.

Nevertheless, there was money to be had and as such a wild theory was adopted to discredit Powell. This astonishing rebuttal to Powell’s conclusions that the West was too arid, the preposterous theory that “rain follows the plow,” meaning that rainfall would increase as farmers worked the soil and planted crops, stirring up the atmosphere to produce rain-bearing clouds. This crazy theory like Global Warming, was just completely nuts. It was proposed by Charles Dana Wilber. Congress could only see money and adopted Wilber’s theory against Powell without any evidence of backing.
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и вот теперь
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Currently, California is locked in a third year of historic drought once again. This is part of the pattern and we may not see a change in this trend for another 4 years. It appears that this cycle will make new record highs. Therefore, this could be a real crisis in the making that is lined up with the turn in the Economic Confidence Model. Strangely, we had the Great Dust Bowl in the 1930s when the model peaked in 1929.75. We should expect food prices to rise and this could become a real crisis. In Contrast, Europe has also had the coldest summer in many decades despite the warnings of global warming.
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http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/14/california-drought-maybe-a-real-crisis-in-the-making/