Colorado would have had Aspen and Vail ski resorts, a tunnel under the Continental Divide, and water diversions. But Pearl Harbor altered the timing and the players, just as Covid-19 is sure to alter Colorado’s history going forward.
Judging from Colorado climate change goals, you might conclude the state embraces climate change worries far outside the U.S. mainstream. In fact, attitudes in the Centennial State hew pretty much to the middle.
In “Science Be Dammed,” Eric Kuhn and John Fleck explain how the foundations for water allocations of the last century were premised on flawed assumptions, and that these assumptions were made disregard of the best science then available. Draw your own conclusions about the lessons applicable to the present.
The water conversation in Colorado has had a giant pivot in the last few decades, as was evident in at the annual conference of the Colorado Water Congress in late January.
Some of us fly—a lot. But is the carbon footprint really that broad? No easy answer here, but you might find a few things that surprise you.
Action has accelerated at the grassroots in Colorado ski towns as local leaders heed the warnings of climate scientists that the carbon budget has nearly been exhausted. At Battle Mountain High School near Vail, Dr. Robert Davies warned that to fail to take appropriation action in the face of evidence of need for a dramatic response should be considered radical.
“Watch our feet,” Tri-State CEO Duane Highley said last October. Today, he announced the closing of two coal units in Colorado and one in New Mexico, which will allow the wholesale supplier to comply with Colorado greenhouse reduction goals. But can Highley keep his biggest members from leaving? That’s the biggest of several questions going forward.
