re: Climate crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become more wild

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Climate crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become more wild

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Knee grow please.

So this is the play to do away with The Masters.

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The treadmill from "global warming" to "climate change" to "climate crisis" to "climate emergency" is amusing. I guess next it will be "climate apocalypse"? Not sure where we go from here.

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Climate don't give a shite anymore.

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transform many courses into muddy swamps.

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Wouldn’t that imply that there is excess water?

Either way, this article is retarded.

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In some areas of the country, water supplies come from underground acquifers which are being drawn down faster than they are naturally being refilled. That means those water supplies are being depleted.

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Thisbis the environmental threat everyone should be paying attention to. But it doesn’t include massive taxation or seizure of control over large swaths of industrial production so…. government and leftists are not interested.

"Extreme weather" is the product of the IPCC Ar4's political summary that was very much contrary to the lead author's conclusions. The leading weather expert resigned in protest.

I guess the politicians didn't think that the threat of milder weather would motivate people.

Warm eras have produced milder weather in both the historical record and the geological record.

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Thisbis the environmental threat everyone should be paying attention to. But it doesn’t include massive taxation or seizure of control over large swaths of industrial production so…. government and leftists are not interested.

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Environmentalists actually actively do things to make this problem worse. See, in the 20th century, large reservoirs were created out west to capture water runoff during wet years so it could be apportioned out during dry periods to maintain a stable supply of drinkable water while also providing excess capacity for flood prevention.

However, environmentalists hate the reservoirs (or love them, depending on what's needed). When there's wet years, they want the reservoirs empty to protect endangered species in the waterways so that they won't store excess capacity. During dry years, they refuse to allow water to be released from reservoirs to ease shortages downriver to protect endangered species in the reservoirs.

Basically, environmentalists oppose any policy that benefits humans and support any policy which is detrimental to humans.

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Or turn California deserts into lush vegetable plantations pumping water in from Lake Meade. I have access to water for my garden and use it occasionally but most people with gardens rely on Mother Nature and do just fine. Had California not done what they did, they wouldn't be having water shortages and thinking supply/demand; someone, somewhere would have produced what is needed to feed America.

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Aruba gets it's water from the ocean via a desalination plant. The average apartment costs about $80 a month for water. Calif would rather suck up someone else's water than build desalination plants.

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as the climate crisis threatens to transform many courses into muddy swamps.

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Sounds like plenty of water there

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Field turf is the answer.

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They really ought to be doing that now, everywhere. Let the rough go wild without irrigation, (maybe) specialty grass on the green and field turf everywhere else.

Folks aren't going to embrace it, but from a cost and "year round" aspect, that's the way to go (maybe even pack up the greens for the winter in rough climates and put a "winter" synthetic green down - not great, but better than no golf at all, right?)