/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16014133
Colorado water shortages are a result of increased demand, not reduced supply. If the government stopped subsidizing water usage, consumers would use less due to price rises. Government intervention is the cause of the vast majority america's water issues.

Is it possible that the media is innacurately reporting an increase in droughts as the fault of climate change, whereas the true cause of an increase in droughts is due to increased demand.
Demand in 3rd world countries has increased immensely. For example, Pakistan's population in 1950 was 40 million, now it is 220 million. Without any chance in flood patterns of volume, the number of people exposed to flooding has increased.
The media then might state "the number of pakis exposed to flooding has increased five fold since 1950", and then in the article go on to talk about some unrelated aspect of climate change. Both statements would be factual, but deliberately misleading.

>>15773219
I'd say the change in water supply is inclusive. It's clearly extremely variable. The demand for water however is a clear steady rise over time, with a reversal around 2000.

Your own graph proves my point. These "droughts" have fuck all to do with climate change, and everything to do with people farming in a desert. If you stopped subsidizing people's water bills, they'd treat it as the scarce and expensive resource it is.