From the “but the media told us the drought was permanent in California” fake news department.
Wired, May 2016: “Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever“. “California is still in a state of drought. For now, maybe forever.” The article gives no support — none — for this clickbait claim. In January Wired attempted to weasel away from their claims by defining drought to mean needing more water than nature provides (“A Wet Year Won’t Beat California’s Never-Ending Drought“). Orwell nodded, unsurprised.
The NYT did no better in “California Braces for Unending Drought“, May 2016. The closest the article comes to supporting their headline is an odd statement by Governor Brown: “But now we know that drought is becoming a regular occurrence…” Drought has always been a regular occurrence in California. The governor also said that “California droughts are expected to be more frequent and persistent, as warmer winter temperatures driven by climate change reduce water held in the Sierra Nevada snowpack and result in drier soil conditions.” That is probable. But it is quite mad for the NYT to call more frequent droughts “an unending drought.”
By Bark Gomez and Yasemin Saplakoglu, Bay Area News Group
Sacramento >> On the heels of what is becoming one of the wettest rainfall seasons ever recorded in California, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday rescinded the drought emergency order he signed in 2014 while signaling new legislative efforts to maintain water conservation measures.
“This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement. “Conservation must remain a way of life.”
Brown is making permanent the bans on wasteful water practices, like hosing off sidewalks, and requiring water agencies to continue to report their water use every month to the state.
At the same time, state agencies Friday announced a long-term plan to better prepare California for future droughts with continued water conservation efforts. The framework requires new legislation to establish long-term water conservation measures and improved planning for more frequent and severe droughts.
“This framework is about converting Californians’ response to the drought into an abiding ethic,” California Department of Water Resources acting Director Bill Croyle said in a statement. “Technically, the drought is over, but this framework extends and expands our dry-year habits. Careful, sparing use of water from backyards to businesses and farm fields will help us endure the next inevitable drought.”
Brown’s executive order lifts the drought emergency in all California counties except Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Tuolumne, where emergency drinking water projects will continue to help address diminished groundwater supplies, according to the governor’s release.
More: http://www.chicoer.com/general-news/20170407/governor-declares-end-to-drought-emergency
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At no time during the drought did any water agency refuse to issue “will serve” letters to new development proposals.
“It’s Official, Global Warming and Higher CO2 Ended the California Drought!!!”
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/its-official-global-warming-and-higher-co2-ended-the-california-drought/
You beat me to it by 1 minute!
Global warming ends “Permanent Drought!”
My god, is there anything Global Warming can’t do?
If by Global Warming you mean CO2…No, there’s nothing it can’t do.
Link: Soil compaction
What is a long term issue is the subsidence. Soil compaction results in a reduction of the pore sizes between particles, resulting in essentially a permanent condition.
Unlike a fattened-dried sponge, the deep layers cannot be rehydrated by excess water flowing over the surface. When the next drought arrives, pumping will be less effective.
Silly me. And here I thought movie studios chose Hollywood because of how many sunny days California has. I now see that before humans started spewing so much of Satan’s gas California was a veritable rain forest. And I now see that the Anasazi Indians who lived nearby left because they were scared of the evil white man and not because of a severe long-term drought in that part of the world. [end sarcasm]
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words; Two Pictures that Say it All
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/a-picture-paints-a-thousand-words-two-pictures-that-say-it-all/
Climate “Science” on Trial; Did Cosmic Rays End the CA Drought?
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/climate-science-on-trial-did-cosmic-rays-end-the-ca-drought/
Gov. Brown overheard a legislator say “make it rain” when talking about some new Kalifornia tax, and he got confused.
Maybe senator Elizabeth Warren did a “Reverse Rain Dance.” That’d do it!
So after 4 years of ineffective leadership dealing with severe drought Jerry Brown declares a “permanent drought” in California. That’s a nice way to cover you’re mistakes. Of course, 9 months later the drought is over and the reservoirs are close to being back to normal. Maybe Jerry Brown should have declared the permanent drought sooner?
The forecast storm could push the Sierra into the record books:
https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2017/04/08/sierra-nearing-record-water-year/
Check out the graphic
I wonder if any consideration has been given to pumping some of the excess runoff into the aquifers since California isn’t into building dams.
I wonder if any consideration has been given to pumping some of the excess runoff into the aquifers since California isn’t into building dams.
Yes, where’s the connection valves into the aquifers.
Whether it’s permanent drought or permanent deluge, it’s unprecedented, worse than we thought and all our fault!
Repent, sinners!
“At the same time, state agencies Friday announced a long-term plan to better prepare California for future droughts with continued water conservation efforts. The framework requires new legislation to establish long-term water conservation measures and improved planning for more frequent and severe droughts.”
As I read this it occurred to me that a self fulfilling non-prophecy may be occurring here; drought is usually felt as not enough water to use as needed. Therefore better planning for the use of ALL water resources will mean more WILL be available whenever needed in the future. Therefore, if a good job of planning is done there will be less drought. Good job Moonbeam! [But I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a good job to be done by ANY bureaucracy!]
Hmm, droughts come and go in cycles. Why is it so far-fetched then to think that other changes in climate might also come and go in cycles and are not all caused by CO2?
In Australia, as NSW and Queensland once more suffer from damaging floods, here’s a timely reminder of some predictions by false prophets of the CAGW cult, backed up by such luminaries as Professor David Karoly and various CSIRO identities.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/12/australias-tragic-flooding-30-feared-dead/
‘It pays to check out Tim Flannery’s predictions about climate change.’
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun February 12, 2011:12:00AM
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/it-pays-to-check-out-flannerys-predictions-about-climate-change-says-andrew-bolt/story-e6frfhqf-1226004644818
If just a fraction of the money spent on allegedly “stopping climate change” had been spent on the mitigation or prevention of flooding in urban areas, we would not be facing such a physically, mentally and financially disastrous aftermath.
Has there been a change in climate to a pattern of increased average annual rainfall? No.
Dry years and extreme weather interrupting is not an end to droughts…
Err, Griff, some light reading for you might learn ya summat about Aus…
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-country/
Big water bureaucracy needs money to keep going, to pay the public servants to watch your consumption … and then your consumption is “permanently” halved and the revenues drop accordingly so your consumption priced rates increase. Happened here in Oz and so will it happen in Kalifornya … together with your up coming new fuel taxes!
Speaking of big bureaucracy and running out of resources, consider the bankruptcies of Stockton, Vallejo, and San Bernardino California canaries in the much larger mine of politically over-promised burgeoning state government employee retirement funding that following generations will face along with the stupefying federal equivalent in unfunded liabilities that easily pales our $20 trillion accumulated “national debt” that doubled in the last 8 years.
Even Barack Obama Sr., the former POTUS’ absentee father and frustrated Kenyan economist, had to acknowledge that a 100% tax rate posed some kind of a limitation on what a socialist regime could reap from its serfdom. And for a further herald of what’s yet to come, check out how soon ObamaCare was so economically insupportable that years ago Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac investor funds were raided to keep that fanciful ball in the air (in the earlier pattern of diverted social security trust fund assets to the federal general fund for more immediate voter-pleasing uses) even with the soaring insurance premiums and whopping deductables upon deployment both taking a true hockey stick graphic form.
We’ve been so content to live beyond our means in so many deferred payment ways that Popeye’s cartoon pal Wimpy (“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!”) is the poster child for our own impatient desire for comfortable shiny new stuff.
On the other hand, California’s undocumented immigration burden will have its built-in solution when its legislature makes central valley agriculture prohibitive enough that as some wag once put it, busloads of farm owners are spotted slipping over the border into Mexico.
Off topic but I loved this science of increasing air turbulence caused by AGW. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/like-to-fly-hate-turbulence-science-says-itll-get-worse/81166/
It’s just nonsense Eve. There’s no evidence at all increasing CO2 has caused increased CAT over the past 40 years. My association with NASA and NOAA involved the study of clear air turbulence and it dates to 1978. We have the records. These folks are making stuff up out of whole cloth and calling it a simulation. It’s disgusting.
They have real data. They use simulations instead. It’s purely appalling.
Thanks, I knew it was nonsense but anything to scare the sheeple.
“Conservation must remain a way of life.”
Well, YES, considering that California has almost doubled the number of residents since 1979, and has added NOT ONE DROP of new reservoir space since then. I wonder whose fault THAT is?
No one knows how many illegal aliens live in CA, so its population is probably well over 40 million. Maybe 50 million.
When I was at Stanford, 1969-73, CA surpassed NY as the most populous state, with almost 20 million in the 1970 census. So, it has well more than doubled since then. And I felt it had too many people in 1969.
CA had 5.7 million in 1930, 6.9 million in 1940, 10.6 million in 1950 and 15.7 million 1960, again probably all too low. So it almost doubled in 1930-50, again in 1950-70, then again in 1970-2017. Both immigration and the postwar baby boom accounted for the first doubling, but in the ’70s the CA dream withered and citizens left the state in droves for other Western states, where they recreated the same Big Government, countercultural nightmares that caused them to flee. The mad fools!
Of CA’s 40 million people, at least ten million are legal immigrants. There is a similar number of illegals.
” Of CA’s 40 million people, at least ten million are legal immigrants. There is a similar number of illegals.” Which would mean 50% of people in California can’t vote legally (assuming ‘legal immigrants’ aren’t citizens yet) and 25% don’t pay income tax. I don’t think the numbers are that skewed but I bet it’s significant.
“I wonder whose fault THAT is?”
Defenders of the smelt.
California has built far to many residential homes in the past 50 years. It’s not that more water is available, it isn’t. It’s not that people haven’t protested the diversion of water for residential use, they have.
No one listens, people are allowed to build more homes and CA is in a continuous state of drought. It isn’t magic.
IF CA doesn’t immediately stop issuing permits for new construction of residential real estate, every property owner in the state will face bankruptcy. No choice. It absolute must happen.
In my experience it is a common ploy used by the left and others caught out in the open committing factual errors to try to redefine a key term or two to twist the argument. They have no embarrassment about lying or distorting the truth, but they are afraid of being found to be in error – almost hysterically so. This is because their objective is not related to the Truth so much as protecting their own precarious egos.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden: “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. “
My family moved to central CA in 1964.
Since then, the formula has been to develop and sell residential real estate absent any infrastructure planning. Developers aren’t required to establish water supplies, power or even roads beyond the subdivisions.
The result has been private profit and public expense; water is paid for by taxes along with roads and to a very large extent power. The same infrastructure is sold over and over to an increasing number of property owners, who also happen to pay property taxes.
Moonbeam and every other Governor of California, along with every state legislature elected since 1964, have failed to invest in the infrastructure necessary to support the population and new development in the state. This isn’t a mystery.
The people of California are simply being screwed blue and tattooed by their elected representative and private real estate developers. Brown is an environmental rapist, so was his dad. He’s rich, he has a private well, and he just doesn’t care as long as he receives a nonstop supply of leftover starlets and wanabe rock legends from Hollywood.
It’s going to collapse. No stopping it. I plan to be dead before it happens.
I’m a Cali native and I get what your saying. But the dems/enviros have led us down this path. With the collapse of the inner cities and ensuing white flight they had no choice but to build out. But the dems have refused to build the infrastructure needed to carry the load. Caltrans and their HOV lanes, metered on ramps, no lane widening until all the surrounding areas are built out making it way harder to expand. Overhead rail should’ve been done decades ago but the enviro nimbys stopped that in its tracks so all we get for billions is slow rail and endless train crossings backing up traffic. Which I think is their goal. There is a huge push to go high density along transit corridors. They want to make it so crowded and time consuming that we’ll give up our cars/freedom. The problem is their public transit options are even slower. Like you I’ll be long gone when the fecal matter hits the oscillation device.
I’ve been skiing all over the Sierras, in fact at least once a month for more than 13 years, and I can say with absolute certainty that this will be a good summer back-country ski season. But more to the point, their is no such thing as an average season here,here except by coincidence. The local climate bounces between extremes and the ‘authoritative’ models are clueless.
Exactly! All one has to do is drive the 395 and look at the landscape. Lush forests followed by almost lunar landscape void of vegetation.
Gonzo,
Yes. I’ve been driving 395 to Mammoth regularly. What has struck me is that once you get to 108, it was white on both sides of the desert road.
I can’t believe Moonbeam didn’t claim his green energy plans and cap and trade program made the difference.
There is no such thing as “permanent drought”. California is not in desert. Droughts and floods follow a rhythmic pattern. First the officials must educate the rulers on this issue and make appropriate long term plans by using the projected needs for future with the increased population density and other needs. Because of the climatologists presented drought indices for different regions.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
“Conservation must remain a way of life.”
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