Droughts

[hurleyjd]

I watched a documentary today about the cliff dwellers in Colorado. How they managed water and the scarcity of it. They did very well until a drought that lasted from 1100 AD to about 1280 AD. Very interesting. What would it be like if that happened now. Would humanity as we know it survive in some sort of way. We sure take a lot for granted.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

 

[fenceman]

I've seen people who wouldn't drink a glass of tap water. Only the pure stuff from a bottle. They probably wouldn't do so well. Although you get em thirsty enough I bet their standards would drop.

 

[JHH]

I've seen people who wouldn't drink a glass of tap water. Only the pure stuff from a bottle. They probably wouldn't do so well. Although you get em thirsty enough I bet their standards would drop.

LOL. My cousin was back several yrs ago and we were hunting. We had walked a lot and both thirsty I got a drink from my our old windmill pump ( well water) and he wouldn't drink it. Was worried about catching something. LOL He waited till we got home. I laugh everytime I think of it.

If water becomes that scarce then 80% of population with probably die. We have no one around that can do anything or think for themselves anymore.

 

[Jogeephus]

Don't see how this could happen. Water evaporates, goes up in the sky, air can't hold but so much water then it falls to earth.

I tried to explain this to a friend of mine before he sunk his life's savings into a waterless carwash business. He wouldn't listen and kept telling me there was a water shortage and he was going to get rich.

Of course, maybe I'm missing something.

 

[Kingfisher]

Don't see how this could happen. Water evaporates, goes up in the sky, air can't hold but so much water then it falls to earth.
I'm with you! 128 year drought! I think I'd move...

 

[TexasBred]

I watched a documentary today about the cliff dwellers in Colorado. How they managed water and the scarcity of it. They did very well until a drought that lasted from 1100 AD to about 1280 AD. Very interesting. What would it be like if that happened now. Would humanity as we know it survive in some sort of way. We sure take a lot for granted.

Long droughts have not been that uncommon. Much of the Sahara Desert use to be forest and grassland. The same for much of the high deserts of South America. Some of the irrigations systems down there are awesome. Some over a thousand years old and still being used. The petrified forest has always amazed me. Now that was a long drought !!!

 

[Bigfoot]

Something I contemplate often------------The bible reference thirst often. In biblical times, that reference didn't fall on a deaf ear. People understood what it was to be thirsty. The lengths you would go to for water, and precious and important it was. Our time doesn't understand thirst. The words don't have the same meaning to us. We just simply have never been thirsty. As a boy of 11 or 12 years old, my dad dropped me off in the tobacco patch. He left me cutting spikeing tobacco by myself, and forgot to leave me a jug of water. Long story short, I got truely thirsty. I was scared to death that my father would be mad at me quitting cutting to walk for drink. When enough thirst overcame me, I walked to a little branch of water. Got there, and it was dry. I walked back, and went back to cutting. Things eventually started getting strange. I guess it was dehydration? I got concerned enough that I went and drank out of a pond. A pound that cows had free access to by the way. I can't remember a thing about how it tasted. I do remember taking my hands to push back some pond scum. As scary as it was, it was the most satisfying drink I ever took in my life. Long dumb story, but that was over 30 years ago. I think of it every time I see the word thirst in the scriptures. My dad wasn't sorry, and told me it was a good life lesson for me to carry a jug of water. It ended up a better life lesson than he ever knew.

 

[hurleyjd]

Don't see how this could happen. Water evaporates, goes up in the sky, air can't hold but so much water then it falls to earth.

I tried to explain this to a friend of mine before he sunk his life's savings into a waterless carwash business. He wouldn't listen and kept telling me there was a water shortage and he was going to get rich.

Of course, maybe I'm missing something.

I guess it would be where the water decided to fall. Some times it rains miles from me and some times on me. We started this year with a lot of hope with the rains in the late winter and early spring and then it stopped. Ponds have lost about two foot of water and the pastures are dried up.

 

[hurleyjd]

Don't see how this could happen. Water evaporates, goes up in the sky, air can't hold but so much water then it falls to earth.
I'm with you! 128 year drought! I think I'd move...

The educated guess is that they did move. That is why you have the cave dwelling in pretty good shape.

 

[hurleyjd]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

Can always depend on a smart answer from a smart man.

 

[Jogeephus]

Don't see how this could happen. Water evaporates, goes up in the sky, air can't hold but so much water then it falls to earth.
I'm with you! 128 year drought! I think I'd move...

The educated guess is that they did move. That is why you have the cave dwelling in pretty good shape.

I suspect we would too. If not those who are affected by the new drought would rely on those who enjoy the new rainfall. Man is a very adaptable creature - in most cases. However, you have to wonder if Sally Struthers wouldn't have to step in and send some who were not smart enough to move food so they could continue to breed like lemmings like they do in the famine regions of Africa.

 

[TexasBred]

Something I contemplate often------------The bible reference thirst often. In biblical times, that reference didn't fall on a deaf ear. People understood what it was to be thirsty. The lengths you would go to for water, and precious and important it was. Our time doesn't understand thirst. The words don't have the same meaning to us. We just simply have never been thirsty. As a boy of 11 or 12 years old, my dad dropped me off in the tobacco patch. He left me cutting spikeing tobacco by myself, and forgot to leave me a jug of water. Long story short, I got truely thirsty. I was scared to death that my father would be mad at me quitting cutting to walk for drink. When enough thirst overcame me, I walked to a little branch of water. Got there, and it was dry. I walked back, and went back to cutting. Things eventually started getting strange. I guess it was dehydration? I got concerned enough that I went and drank out of a pond. A pound that cows had free access to by the way. I can't remember a thing about how it tasted. I do remember taking my hands to push back some pond scum. As scary as it was, it was the most satisfying drink I ever took in my life. Long dumb story, but that was over 30 years ago. I think of it every time I see the word thirst in the scriptures. My dad wasn't sorry, and told me it was a good life lesson for me to carry a jug of water. It ended up a better life lesson than he ever knew.

Did about the same thing once BF...got a nice drink from a small running creek. Walked up the creek to just relax and cool down. Walked up on a dead rotting calf in the creek. Water was till very refreshing and sweet. ;-)

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

Can always depend on a smart answer from a smart man.

You're more than welcome son.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

Can always depend on a smart answer from a smart man.

Well that was my suspicion too. They let too many buffalo graze the plains. The buffalo were belching gasses. If they would have thinned the herds back then, it would have helped.

 

[fenceman]

You forgot about all the pollution from campfires and peace pipes.

We've only been dry about 3 months. Couldn't imagine 100 years.

 

[ram]

A hundred plus year drought will happen again, we just won't be here to witness it.

 

[hurleyjd]

http://video.rmpbs.org/video/2365359525/

 

[Dave]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

There is a study out that say about 7-8% of the annual green house gas released in California is from wildfires. So I guess if we were to actually manage forests and grasslands in the west instead of leaving them "all natural". We would help to reduce global warming.

 

[Jogeephus]

Man made climate change take the blame for that one too?

There is a study out that say about 7-8% of the annual green house gas released in California is from wildfires. So I guess if we were to actually manage forests and grasslands in the west instead of leaving them "all natural". We would help to reduce global warming.

You know, the more CO2 you pump in the atmosphere the faster plants grow. The faster they grow the more O2 they produce and the more foliage and fiber they produce. Its a neat cycle. During the dinosaur era we had much more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as we do now which made the plants bigger so they could sustain the larger animals. But this is a known fact and the government doesn't give out research grants to study what is already known.