Republicans ignore climate facts
Re: John R. Hansons July 27 letter, Facts behind fires in liberal states:
A recent letter blames liberal states for the recent spate of wildfires. If the writer was not so tragically and demonstrably wrong, the letter could be the foundation of a political comedy piece.
Actual facts establish that as Wednesday morning, of the 80 wildfires currently burning and destroying Americas natural beauty, 73 are ravaging the following failed and failing mismanaged third-world Republican conservative states.
Specifically, Alaska (60), Texas (4), Idaho (3), Montana (2), Utah (2), Florida (1), Oklahoma (1), and Wyoming (1). In contrast, liberal California has 2, Nevada 1 and Hawaii 1.
Facts are objective. The irrefutable facts are that climate change is driving extreme heat. Climate change is being ignored by the third-world Republican Party which, like an ostrich, hides its head in the ground. And where the population is ostrich like, fires are ravaging the land unchecked.
Ira Cohen, Thousand Oaks
As our drought situation has deepened, I have become dismayed by the continual loss of fresh water from the Ventura River into the ocean. As measured last week, the flow in the river is approximately 12 feet wide and six inches deep and flows around 2 feet per second. A quick calculation reveals that we are losing around 335,000 gal per hour or approximately 1 acre-foot an hour or 24 acre-feet a day. This translates to 8,760 acre-feet per year.
The 2020 census shows the number of Ventura households to be 40,841 and assuming an acre-foot provides annual water for three households, Venturas total annual residential water usage is approximately 13,500 acre-feet. In other words, were losing 65% of Venturas residential usage into the ocean instead of into storage and with our current dire need for fresh water this seems to be insane and irresponsible.
We cant possibly conserve our way out of the ever-worsening rainfall shortages which means we need to develop new supply and storage methodologies that increase fresh water supply and minimize losses.
Eric Inglis, Camarillo
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Letters: Conservative states and fires; river water into ocean - VC Star
