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Kenneth Runnels does not see himself as a victim of the drought. He believes he is an “adapter.”
Runnels, the chief administrator of Antelope Point Marina, is Lake Powell, which is the second-largest country reservoir and a large part of the Colorado River system, which supplies water for more than 40 millions people in the West.
Powell’s water level is now at its lowest point after decades of drought. unimaginable lowsRunnels’ business as well as the millions of people who depend on the lake’s waters, are at risk.
Runnels had to make quick adjustments to the plummeting water levelHe has devised new routes to get from bank to water. CNN was informed by him that he is currently working to obtain another permit to lower access point 20 feet further.
Scientists have determined that Lake Powell has fallen nearly 100 feet in two years. Worst multiyear drought since at least 12 centuries. Runnels cites overuse as a reason for low water levels. The Colorado River is being used by more people than it can sustain naturally. He also stated that he sees the effects of climate change.
Runnels said, “I have seen it come down and come back up, come up again and go down,” “Never to this degree.”
Lake Powell, Arizona, on March 27, near Page. The reservoir was at 25% capacity, a historic low.
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A Gallup pollCNN shared the first results. 1 in 3 Americans claimed they were affected by extreme weather in the last two years. Those who were more likely to have been affected were also more likely to claim that the climate crisis is a danger. Gallup estimates that approximately 6 million people were impacted by drought during this time.
Gallup asked their respondents for their first ever environment poll about their experiences with extreme weather. It found 78% of respondents who have faced recent extreme weather — like the The West’s megadroughtThe Texas deep freeze, Ida, a deadly hurricane — believe the effects of climate change are already unfolding, compared to 51% who had not.
Gallup senior editor Jeffrey Jones told CNN that people see this happening more often across the country. “It’s certainly influencing the way they view (climate) issues.”
While Democrats were more likely to report being impacted by extreme weather — 45% to 20% — the poll found, regardless of political party affiliation, respondents who had been affected were more likely to be concerned about the climate crisis.
Gallup reported that Republicans are less likely to worry than Republican-leaners. However, Gallup found a 15-point gap in climate concerns between those who (28%) and those who (13%) had been affected.
Jones stated that extreme weather events are more common than ever. “They are certainly getting a lot of attention in the news, but within that discussion they’re saying this evidence of climate change.”
In 2021, after Hurricane Ida, power lines were left dangling over a Louisiana road.
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Jones said that the survey, which was done in March, showed how people struggle to grasp the gravity and impact of the crisis until it reaches them.
Gallup found that those who live in the South or West were significantly more likely than those who live in the East or Midwest to report experiencing an extreme event. A majority of those who claimed to have experienced such an event listed extreme cold or hurricane, winter storm, or extreme heat.
Wildfires, extreme heat, and drought were the most common events reported by West-based respondents.
“These data show that many people are beginning to realize that our climate doesn’t just warm, it’s becoming more volatile, which is really bad news für agriculture, water supplies and industry, as well as so many other vital aspects of life,” Jennifer Marlon from Yale School of the Environment, told CNN.
Marlon said it is encouraging that more people are beginning to see the connection between extreme weather events and global warming.
“The next question is: Do people realize that burning coal, oil, and methane gas are what causes chaotic severe weather?” Marlon posed.
Monday will be the The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a warningThe world must immediately transition away from fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy like solar or wind. Limit the impact of climate crisis — otherwise, the West is destined for more drought and heat, the oceans will continue to inundate coastal communities and extreme weather will become more deadly than it already is.
Gallup’s respondents believe that humans are responsible for Earth’s warming in the past century. This is compared to natural changes, which is around 65%. However, 45% of respondents believe that global warming poses a threat during their lifetime. 54% disagree.
Photos: See the devastating effects of tornadoes over the years
May 22, 2011: Joplin (Missouri)
Photo taken May 25, 2011. Beverly Winans is seen hugging Debbie Surlin, her daughter, while salvaging items from Winans’ Joplin, Missouri, house. May 22, 2011, saw the deadliest tornado ever to strike the United States. It swept through Joplin, causing 161 deaths.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
April 2011: Southeastern U.S.
After 362 tornadoes struck the southeast United States in April 2011, Tuscaloosa Fire Lieutenant Brian Phillips climbs up a pile of rubble to search for survivors or bodies. Alabama was the hardest affected state, with more 250 deaths.
AP Photo/Dave Martin
Feb. 5, 2008: ‘Super Tuesday’ outbreak
New cars and trucks at a Chevrolet dealership sit under the wreckage from a tornado that hit Mountain View, Ark., on Feb. 5, 2008. 57 people were killed by the Super Tuesday outbreak of 87 severe thunderstorms in the southeastern United States.
AP Photo/Danny Johnston
April 2014: Midwest and Southeast
An American flag waves from a makeshift flag pole in front of a concrete slab that once was a house in Louisville, Miss., after an April 28, 2014, tornado destroyed the house. A powerful storm system created dozens of tornadoes that ravaged the Southeast and Midwest in three days in April 2014. It killed 32 people in Iowa and Oklahoma, Arkansas as well as Mississippi, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
May 20, 2013: Moore, Oklahoma
24 people were killed by a tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013. The tornado was rated EF-5 because it had winds of more than 200 miles an hour.
AP Photo/Alonzo Adams
March 18, 1925: Missouri (Illinois) and Indiana
This March 1925 photo shows a house that was overturned after a tornado in Griffen (Ind.) took it 50 feet from its foundation. The March 18 tornadoes, which killed nearly 700 people in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, topped the list of the most dangerous tornadoes in the United States.
AP Photo
May 11, 1953, Waco Texas
Bolstered by heavy equipment, workers start the gigantic task of cleaning up wreckage remaining in the downtown area of Waco, Texas, in the aftermath of a May 11, 1953, tornado. It was responsible for the deaths of 114 people, and was one among the top 10 most destructive tornadoes in U.S. History.
AP Photo
Nov. 6, 2005: Evansville, Indiana
While others remain intact, debris from mobile homes that were destroyed litters the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park. This was in the aftermath to a tornado that struck Evansville, Ind. on Nov. 6, 2005. The tornado caused 20 deaths in southwestern Indiana, northern Kentucky, and destroyed thousands of homes.
AP Photo/Darron Cummings
May 10, 2008, Southwest Missouri
A tornado that struck the area in southwest Missouri on May 10th 2008 left a vehicle stranded along Highway 86 north of Racine. Fourteen people were killed in the tornado, and many more were injured.
AP Photo/Mike Gullett
May 25, 2008: Iowa
The first floor of a Parkersburg, Iowa house is all that remains after the May 25 tornado, which destroyed hundreds of homes and left nine others dead, left on Sept. 8, 2008.
AP Photo/Kevin Sanders
Feb. 29, 2012: Illinois
Family members and friends try to salvage what they can on Feb. 29, 2012, in Harrisburg, Ill., after a tornado destroyed their neighborhood homes. The devastating EF4 tornado claimed eight lives.
AP Photo/Seth Perlman
Feb. 11, 2009: Oklahoma
Three-year-old Brooklyn Hickman helps look through the rubble of her grandfather’s trailer home in Lone Grove, Okla., on Feb. 11, 2009, after a tornado struck, killing eight people. One of the most popular Oklahoma news stories was a series of unusually strong tornadoes in February 2009.
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
April 28, 2011: Virginia
After an EF3 tornado hit Glade Spring, Va. on April 28, 2011, traffic lights were cut off. Several homes and truck stops along I-81 were also severely damaged.
AP Photo/Jeff Gentner
June 8, 1984: Barneveld, Wisconsin
Rescuers saw Barneveld, Wisconsin’s first demolished village, as dawn broke on June 8, 1984. Nine people were killed and most of the small village were destroyed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was powerful and had winds of more than 300 mph.
Wisconsin State Journal photo
May 1955: Udall, Kansas
Museum in Udall displays photos of the damage caused by the 1955 tornado which decimated Udall (Kan.). The May 1955 tornado, which killed 80 people, is one of the 25 most deadly in American history.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
March 2, 2012: Indiana
After a tornado with 150 mph winds struck the southern Indiana hamlet of Marysville on March 2, 2012 and left behind debris, people cleaned up the area. The tornado was part of an outbreak that left 13 people in southern Indiana dead.
AP Photo/Charles Wilson
October 2013: Nebraska
Numerous buildings were damaged by tornadoes on Oct. 5, 2013. The storm system that buried parts Wyoming and South Dakota in heavy, snowy snow brought strong thunderstorms that sent tornadoes to the Great Plains. This caused millions of dollars of damage. Wayne, a small town of 9,600 people, suffered the most severe tornado damage.
AP Photo/Dave Weaver
Missouri, May 4, 2003
Steve Jones places his grandfather’s gravestone at Stockton City Cemetery, Stockton, Mo. after the cemetery was destroyed by a tornado on May 4, 2003 that killed five people.
AP Photo/John S. Stewart
June 11, 2008 in Iowa
After a tornado struck the Little Sioux Scout Ranch, in the remote Loess Hills of Iowa on June 11, 2008, remnants of a ranger’s home can be seen. Four people were killed in the EF3 tornado.
AP Photo/Loren Sawyer – Onawa Sentinel
July 8, 2014: Upstate New York
People sort through debris of a destroyed house after a July 8, 2014, storm, in Smithfield, N.Y. Four people died in a tornado that destroyed homes in upstate New York. This was confirmed by the National Weather Service.
AP Photo/Mike Groll
Dec. 10-11th, 2021: Kentucky and Tennessee, Ohio Valley in the southern US
An overturned tree sits in front of a tornado-damaged home Dec. 11, 2021, in Mayfield, Ky. On Dec. 10-11, violent and rare December tornadoes ripped across Kentucky and several other states. Kentucky’s death toll alone from the storms is now 80. In five states, the storms claimed more than 90 lives. On Dec. 10, 11 and 12, the National Weather Service recorded at most 41 tornadoes, including 16 in Tennessee and eight within Kentucky. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, eight states — Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, Ohio and Indiana — reported tornadoes.
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
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