Many of us have heard accounts of how Colorado has suffered from unprecedented floods. Main streets in university cities like Boulder, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, have been turned into rivers as flash floods have hurtled down washing away roads and buildings in their wake.
The more environmentally conscious will have accounted for this as another example of the extreme weather that we can expect a lot more of in the context of ever increasing CO2 levels and global warming; it is basic physics, put more energy into a dynamical system and you get more extreme behaviour. But few are aware of the disastrous impact that these floods have had on communities already living with extensive fracking in their back yards.
