View from Marine One on California Drought
They must hate to admit it but the conservative American Farm Bureau can't pretend that climate change doesn't exist because it's staring them in the face with a shorter snow fall season. Of course they're not going so far as to suggest that we try to take action to slow the impacts, just that it's getting too hard to ignore so we better try to do something about making water supplies available for agriculture.
Grist gets the scoop from the Washington Examiner.
The influential American Farm Bureau, citing climate change, said a shift to collecting rain must happen now because it could take up to 30 years to build a new infrastructure.
At a meeting in San Diego, California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger said that up to now about 70 percent of water storage has been in mountain reservoirs filled with melting snowpack.
“As climate change comes, we have to adapt, and that means we’d better have lower-level capturing systems to be able to capture that water, because it’s going to come as rainfall, not snowpack,” he warned, at a workshop at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 96th Annual Convention and IDEAs Trade Show.
Yep, the deniers are starting to feel the heat (pun intended) and we're going to be seeing more of this. When it starts to affect them personally more will come out of the woodwork.