As we await this afternoon's entirely unsurprising #ColoradoRiver shortage declaration, a few thoughts from Science Be Dammed - How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River, by @R_EricKuhn and myself. (1/n)
(Out this week in paperback from our friends at @AZpress - timing-wise, it's better to be lucky than to be good - uapress.arizona.edu/book/science-b… )
As Congress in the mid-1920s was deliberating ratification of the #ColoradoRiver Compact and authorization of Hoover Dam, a USGS hydrologist named Eugene Clyde LaRue tried to warn then (3/n) 
LaRue was not alone: (4/n)
Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science drained the Colorado River by @R_EricKuhn and me, out this week in paperback from @AZpress uapress.arizona.edu/book/science-b…
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