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To: Sea Otter who wrote (10017)	2/22/2012 11:14:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Texas agency likely to cut water to rice farms LISSIE, Texas (AP) — Five generations of Ronald Gertson's family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop. Until now. For the first time since Gertson's great-grandfather made his way from Denmark through Kansas to the flat, coastal area south of Houston, his family faces the likelihood officials won't release water from two Austin-area lakes into the rivers and canals they use for irrigation.

To: Sea Otter who wrote (10017)	2/22/2012 2:19:21 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Yes, it's scientifically accurate that the only long term trend in rainfall in TX is slightly up. **"This is not the new normal in terms of drought. Texas knows drought. Texas has been toughened on the anvil of droughts that have come and gone. This is not a climate change drought."** Since NOAA said that, warmists ought to be able to accept it. I have rancher relatives in Oklahoma and they are in a world of trouble. And I do much business in China and have seen first-hand the struggles there with similar problems, as in Australia, Africa, Russia (Siberia is literally melting, just like Alaska) and elsewhere. A casual traveler around the world can't help but notice the major issues developing everywhere around the planet. Maybe those who pretend things are just fine need to turn off the TV and get out more. The problem with those kind of observations is the earth's climate never has been stable. There has always been climate change and climate fluctuations. It's not just possible to point at something and say, ah ha. People magnify what they see happening 'right now' and it's not remembered similar things have happened before .... not millions of hundreds of thousand of years ago, but decades ago.