ClimateWire: The Colorado basin is aflood. But the river still stops shy of the sea. What gives?
Dry Delta, by Ronald de Hommel, http://tinyurl.com/3v5n46h
Thank you New York Times for springing an occasional goody from Environment and Energy Publishing’s constellation of private-client newsletters and posting it on line. Today, from Climate Wire, one finds a solid explainer from Julia Pyper on the paradoxes in hydrology to be found between the overflowing, far tributary headwaters of the Colorado River, and the dry, dendritic bed where it once flowed into the Sea of Cortez and provided conduit for hordes of spawn-obsessed fish.
For awhile I saw all the E&E service’s flow. Even at the excellent rate we got, it was pricier than I could honestly justify for my employers at the Knight Fellowships at MIT – a non-profit place where fiscal care is vital. Anybody with an expense account that can absorb the rates (not hundreds, but typically thousands of $$ yearly) and needs to be ahead of the crowd on water, energy, climate, and related issues ought to sign up.
This is solid, lively, and sober science-enviro journalism.
- Charlie Petit
