Once again, Romm blames something he knows nothing about on climate change.

I worked one summer in the 1980s as a wilderness ranger in the mountains above Santa Fe and have some familiarity with the drainage. The river has been dammed above the city since 1881. There isn’t any water in the river bed because it all gets diverted to the city, Indian casinos and golf courses. National Geographic describes the problem.

Santa Fe suffers from chronic water extraction that leaves its bed a dry ditch for most of the year. “Everybody can agree that a healthy, flowing Santa Fe River is good for the community of Santa Fe,” Fahlund said.

“I think that the governor and the mayor are both solidly behind this, and I think that they are going to put some water back in the river. But it’s a matter of the timing and the permanence of that.”

The city’s growing water needs have drained the Santa Fe’s flow at the expense of dams and wells

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070418-ten-rivers.html

Santa Fe had their second snowiest winter in the forty year WRCC record last year, and five of the top ten years have been in the last decade.

Penn and Teller filmed some of Romm’s victims in Santa Fe. Watch the whole thing – it is hilarious.