The study, published online in the journal Science, predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest - one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation.
The data tell "a story which is pretty darn scary and very strong," said Jonathan Overpeck, a climate researcher at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
Fuck you southwest. Let's see how much everyone extols your virtues and copious opportunities when you are dried up and crunchy from lack of water. I am never going to agree to ship water down from the great lakes if that is what you are thinking.
The prospect of a drier Southwest is particularly troublesome because the region has some of the nation's fastest growing cities, including Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Richard Seager, also from Lamont-Doherty and a lead author of the paper, said the region will have to rethink how it uses water. Governments "need to plan for this right now, coming up with new, well-informed, and fair deals for allocation of declining water resources," he said.
We should give water to people who live in absurd places like the desert.
We should give air to the people who settle in undersea villages.
We should give our brains to zombies.
Good, glad that place will dry out. I mean, it is a fucking desert. People aren't supposed to live in a desert. That is why it is a desert and not, let's just say, a temperate forest zone with ample water for cities.
Opportunity for what, dying of thirst? Haha.
I'd sell water to them - but I would make it extraordinarily expensive. I'm talking megabucks. You don't want to die of thirst? Then you will pay.
Or, what they could do is solve the problem on their own through investing their own money in technology. Doubt that will happen.
Or, they could do what countless other groups of people who deal with natural tragedies do - get the hell out and settle somewhere else.
I don't particularly care about LV, or Phoenix, or any of those places. I really don't. Especially LV, full of degenerates and whose history is as shady as any city's history. If they were forced to scatter it wouldn't break my heart. Life's tough, wear a helmet!
wow! so great thing im moving there, and you wont give me water. i dont really agree with thye whole thing either. but, the world is already a pretty fucked up place, and my name aint sarah a. ho for nothing. i will come back and steal the water, peaches!
That would be so freakin' great, like the way they guard the mexican border with militia's now.
they are totally gonna get our water. Maybe we should arm ourselves and start some kind of Great Lakes Defense Militia.