Posted on 04/22/2013 3:51:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
will always remember the day I woke to the news that more than 2,000 fires were burning in California. I thought I must not have heard correctly. Two thousand fires? How could that be?
In the end, the state's brave firefighters, joined by contingents from out of state, won the battle. But not before 11 emergency declarations were issued and more than 400,000 acres burned. Countless lives and livelihoods were ruined.
Today, there's a new disaster looming, and although it's not as riveting or dramatic as walls of flames and billowing black smoke, it needs our immediate attention. The draft National Climate Assessment, now being circulated for comment and scheduled for release this year by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, presents a sobering vision of the world that awaits us if we don't act.
This team of top climate scientists has concluded that our region of the country is hotter than it has ever been and that it will get hotter — because of humans. The last decade was the hottest the Southwestern U.S. has experienced — on average 2 degrees warmer than it had been historically. The scientists project a further increase over the next 50 years of 6 to 9 degrees if we do nothing.
Already we are seeing the effects of a warmer climate: droughts and heat waves that threaten lives, and, yes, fires.
This shift could spell disaster for California, long the nation's agricultural powerhouse. The state produces more than half of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S., with an output of $43.5 billion last year. Californians don't rely just on the food produced by the state's farms; they rely on the revenue and the jobs too. Agriculture employs more than 1.5 million people in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Arnold = California’s Silent Disaster
64% No. Noted that the weather channel was shilling hard earlier today. The left is all panicky because people have figured them out. (Sometimes, I love the internet)
They think we’re stupid.
I agree, Schwarzenegger is a disaster. Unfortunately he is not silent.
Arnold was the People’s Democratic Republic of Calfornia’s very noisy catastrophe.
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Well, Arnold, you made a mess of your personal life, but that’s no reason to make a mess of ours.
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