Daily Archives: April 15, 2026

The Colorado River ran high during the very wet 1980s and 1990s, which allowed Lake Powell to fill up. But over the past three decades Colorado has been dry. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20240606

Arizona has been getting drier for the past 110 years. Lake Powell filled up during the unusually wet decade of the 1980s, leading to unrealistic expectations about water availability. The state has been in drought for almost 30 years. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20240606

Bill Gates has been doing geoengineering designed to alter the climate, and now the US is experiencing the worst drought on record. Is he culpable, given that altering the climate was his intent?