Carly Fiorina: Environmentalists To Blame For 'Man-Made' Drought In California
4/6/15
WASHINGTON -- Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California, which has led to the state's first water restrictions.
“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. “Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”
Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”
The drought, now officially in its fourth year, prompted Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last week to order a 25 percent reduction in water consumption. The order does not apply to the agriculture industry, which consumes nearly 80 percent of the state's water.
...There's nothing magical in and of themselves to build a (reservoir) facility," Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, told the Bee last year. "If we had two more surface storage facilities that we built 10 years ago -- pick any of the two that people are talking about -- they would both be very low right now. There's a tendency to pull down our surface storage when we get mildly short of water."
..."For a science denier to opine that Democrats caused the drought in California is about as irrational as believing someone who failed at running a business in California and then failed as a candidate for office in California has any cause to be running for the highest office in the land," Bobby Whithorne, the group's spokesman, said in a statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-california-drought_n_7014468.html
What a climate change denying, teabagging loser. Let's blame the environmentalists for it not raining! If CA had 2 more reservoirs all problems with the lack of rain would not exist! Its all the fault of Liberals!
Please.
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The premise is ridiculous, but that is what she's saying. Love that!
Carly, you are a loser, you really are.
I normally don't demean someone, but in your case you have no fr****ing clue on what you are talking about---none and then you sit and talk to a paranoid right wing libertarian hypocrite racist that goes around and says "be afraid be very afraid", yep be very afraid of him and yourself and join the rest of us on this dying planet and get a real clue.
Let me give you a clue, in San Paulo, Brazil, for the next Olympics the mountains around the city have NO glaciers---so they are running out of water and they are rioting.
In Chile the same thing.
And by the way the last time I and my family were in Hawaii (Big Island) you could see smog, yep, smog it came from China it was disgusting to see smog being generated by coal fired plants from China, and the temperature had dropped 10 degrees because of the SMOG and just like yourself and others called Authoritarian Capitalist who created the smog---it was a human being more interested in money.
Glacial National Park up here on this continent is gone---it should be called You Humans Are Really Stupid National Park.
Do you fully realize that if you watch the tree line in the high desert country and the mountains they are moving higher because there is no moisture, and what moisture there is in the higher elevations if it rains.
And if you really had a clue about California, you would know the State flower in California is the poppy flower its normally stays in bloom until around June or July, well guess what, if you knew what California was about, you would know that the flower is gone there is no water in the high desert country---but you don't want that fact to get in the way of your denial---except to blame a liberal.
I just have to ask do you think or have a clue on what you and the rest of the life on this planet need to say alive and its not sea water---come on tell us.
If you by chance ever decide to sit down and read a really good magazine like Harpers for instance.
Read what's is going on in Greenland (please note, when I flew over it in the 60's you couldn't see a land mass, it was covers with ice and snow, now you can see the land mass up above the Arctic Circle) there are no glaciers.
Then if your right wing curiosity on further denial really drives you bonkers did you and Beck buy chance see what the Antarctica glacial shield is doing down there, its about the size of Texas, OK, Kansas, its about 280 miles wide and its slowing being moved into the sea, because of the melting water, yes the melting water, just like what's is happening underneath the glaciers in Greenland they are poring into the ocean at the rate of 456 trillion gallons a year of melted water, that is not good.
I think you, Beck, Inhofe and others of your ilk are the problem and its because you are a conservative (now that sounds oxymoron----- conservative)
I simply can't take much more of these denier nuts.
Thank you Turbinetree. You put it all in a nutshell.
