Comments on: U.N. Chief Warns Of Water Shortages

Secretary-General Says Scarcity Of Water Contributes To Armed Conflicts, Poverty

[skyk-2009]

Oh no. Ban Ki-moon is not a respected scientist, he is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The same United Nations which has been promoting worldwide treaties to stop "Global Warming." As such, Ban Ki-moon will gain more political power if people believe him.

Can you say "fraud?"


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Posted by octavianfdlr at 09:16 PM : Jan 25, 2008
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Not EVERYONE is a Nazi and not everyone has a motive to control. I guess you can continue to just ignore the facts before you but they are there and they are real.

[skyk-2009]

Studies show that when atmospheric CO2 goes up plant are significantly more productive and need much less water. Get over the manmade global warming hoax and there you go.


Posted by pboskovich at 08:07 PM : Jan 25, 2008
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Only a FOOL would ignore this warning... ONLY a fool would ignore the obvious changes to our enviroment....

[skyk-2009]

You missed the class on snow pack. If the mountain snow pack melts too quickly, which it will with climate change the steady flow of water through out the season is interrupted. And reservoirs can only hold so much water before they have to let it flow out to the ocean.

You see the conundrum of Climate change is that there is more water vapor in the air, but it all comes down at once in massive flurries that flood and rush out to sea. And winter snow pack melts very quickly, once again flowing out to sea. So, you see you have not proven that Climate change is not happening, you have in fact validated it.

Additionally Water Vapor is the king of all green house %u201Cgases%u201D. If the vapor goes up in the upper Troposphere, which coincidently it has been recently, it will add exponentially to the heating of the planet. To reiterate, climate patterns are interrupted and rain fall will increase in intensity and duration in very differently locations around the globe, leading to, Yes You Guessed it, Drought.



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Posted by curse914 at 12:40 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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I sit and read these post and just shake my head at some of these folks. Of course you are right about the snow caps and Global Warming will most certainly cause draught, even though the drying increases the amount of H2O in the air, that air MOVES that to some OTHER area, mostly in violent storms.

[octavianfdlr]

Good suggestion, hypnotoad72. Desalination is our primary source of clean water.

The sun warms the ocean. Water evaporates out of the ocean. The water vapor blows across the land, which lifts it up to a higher altitude. Adiabatic cooling causes the water vapor to condense out as rain. The rain, freed of the salt, falls onto the land.

If the ocean is warmer (global warming) the concentration of water vapor is higher, and more rain falls. If the ocean is cooler (global cooling, or ice age conditions) there is less water vapor and less rain. Exactly the opposite of what the would-be supreme ruler of the Earth wants us to believe.

[hypnotoad72]

De-Salination, perhaps? How much does it cost to remove the salt from sea water? You''d have drinkable water (and salt, useful for seasoning tasty dead animals) in return.

[octavianfdlr]

Does anyone remember how the ice ages (global cooling) have traditionally dried the climate, and the interglacials (global warming) have increased rainfall? Nevertheless, famous scientist Ban Ki-moon is saying that the postulated "Global Warming" is going to decrease the water supply.

Oh no. Ban Ki-moon is not a respected scientist, he is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The same United Nations which has been promoting worldwide treaties to stop "Global Warming." As such, Ban Ki-moon will gain more political power if people believe him.

Can you say "fraud?"

Studies show that when atmospheric CO2 goes up plant are significantly more productive and need much less water. Get over the manmade global warming hoax and there you go.

pboskovich: but we''re not Triffids. Get over the deniacon smokescreen, and there we are.

[pboskovich]

Studies show that when atmospheric CO2 goes up plant are significantly more productive and need much less water. Get over the manmade global warming hoax and there you go.

[raised4952]

instead of spending money to go into space they need to find a way to clearify sea water to drinking water!!

we desperately need to start working on desalination and how to make it economically viable. Tampa Bay produces about 10% of its drinking water via desalination. Our aquifers are drying up - we need to start taking more of our drinking water from the oceans.