Posted 5/25/2006 05:30:00 PM by Douglas

Global warming, raising sea levels, bird flu, cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria, blah blah blah.

Within the next century, hotter weather in Central Texas will lead to longer droughts, the amount of water making its way into the Edwards Aquifer will drop, crops may wither, and the tree line that divides lush East Texas and bone-dry West Texas — it now sits just along Interstate 35 — might push east. Austin, in short, could start looking a lot like San Angelo.

Maybe all the freaks and hippies will go back to Cali, then? I can dream, can't I?

Texas can expect "more heat waves, worse air quality, increased risk of disease, droughts, wildfires and coastal erosion," warned the report, titled "Fair Warning: Global Warming and the Lone Star State."

Heat waves? In Texas? Nooooooo!!!!

The report acknowledges that the scenarios it presents are "not a guaranteed list of date-certain predictions," and, indeed, the report is peppered with woulds, coulds, likelys and mays.

And lots of "We just pulled this out of our collective asses.

But the authors say that global warming itself has already begun, and climate change will not be stopped unless there is local and international action to curtail emission of greenhouse gases.

This is what I really love about people that pump out this drivel. They think that global warming is caused by a lack of legislation or funding.

The report paints a bleak picture of Texas' future, especially along its coastline. The sea level will rise, threatening low-lying communities along Texas' coast and destroying species that rely on coastal ecosystems. A 1-foot increase in sea levels would cover about 400 square miles of Texas coast, displacing many of the 1.6 million coastal county residents and flooding barrier islands, according to the report.

I invite these Leftist do-gooders to visit the Texas coast. From Bacliff to Port Aransas, the vast majority of coastal Texas is one giant turd, one that narrowly avoids getting flushed to the sea by a string of hurricanes each and every summer. Think how much classier Coastal Beeville and Port Katy would be? I for one am submitting the charter for the Alice Yacht Club right now.

But what's the big picture?

"West Texas will simply be drier than it is now, if that's possible," he said. "The tree line will simply move to the east." College Station will look like Austin, and Austin will look like cities to the west.

"Water will become increasingly expensive," he predicted. "But it doesn't mean the end of Austin: A lot of people live in Phoenix."

Oh my gawd, the sky is falling? We're all gonna die! Salamanders will die!! We've got to get the government to do something about this, and fast!!! But, if we don't, don't worry about being personally inconvenienced. They're be plenty of electricity for your A/C at your Lake Travis house, and gas for your SUV and water for your lawn. It works in Phoenix, right?

Self-serving Leftist crap and their narrow, unenlightened self-interests. How they amuse me so. Kinda goes with this cartoon.

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