More on Nazi/Soviet flying saucer at 1947 Roswell, Forest Service role in flooding

Author Annie Jacobson on DemocracyNow!

This story in the Casper Trib brought it all home:

A new study suggests the mountain pine beetle outbreak in the West could trigger earlier snowmelt and increased water yields from snowpack under beetle-killed trees. University of Colorado doctoral student Evan Pugh and his team monitored trees near Rocky Mountain National Park in the 2009 and 2010 winters. His study, published this week in the journal "Ecohydrology," found snow accumulation was about 15 percent higher under trees whose needles had fallen off than other stands, whose branches and needles collected snow. Pugh says trees without needles let more sunlight through the canopy, and dead needles on the ground absorb sunlight, allowing for faster snowmelt. Dead trees also don't suck up water from the soil. Pugh said that could boost potential flood risks but also water availability.

Runoff due to beetle kill is one element missing from the US Army Corps of Engineers' Master Manual. ip's argument seeking to assign some blame to Congressional Republicans like Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns includes additional Colorado and Wyoming inflows to the North Platte and Lake McConaughy in Nebraska, although it is a Bureau of Reclamation project.

The results of recent closed ip poll, "Who's to blame for this year's epic flooding?" are indecipherable leaving me to conclude that it was gamed by either redstaters, apoliticos, or both. The best spin might be that the 14 voters blaming blue states, the President (there might be evidence of his input), and Democrats apparently live outside the Earth's biosphere. There were 184 hits on that poll. Show me the evidence for those voting to blame Democrats.