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Hopes rise for a strong El Niño to ease California drought
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| Rong-Gong Lin II and Rosanna Xia
Posted on 05/28/2015 12:14:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Drought is the normal condition for most of California, and has been for thousands of years. Most of the state is considered to be wither semi-arid or desert. It has only been in the past 200-300 years that the weather pattern most of us grew up with was the norm. So it is not that surprising that California is returning to its historic weather patterns - and almost certainly has nothing to do with "man-made" global warming!
However, even with the dire warnings of more frequent and longer droughts (whatever the cause), you are still not hearing anything from state officials about increasing the water storage capacity (dams and reservoirs) or developing additional sources of water (pipelines or desalination plants). So I have a hard time believing that they really see this as anything other than an opportunity to impose more regulations and restriction on the citizens, gain more power and increase taxes and public spending.
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posted on
05/28/2015 1:47:46 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: BenLurkin; All
El Nino will allow Sacramento to continue to dump billions of gallon of water directly into the Pacific Ocean
(they had to open up all five spill gates at Folsom Dam east of Sacramento, CA in early February 2011).
Is that what this freeper was talking about? I've never heard of those nitwits (not that I would put it past them) dumping so much fresh water offshore. Is it really so?
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:38:02 PM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: BenLurkin
go to Joe Bastardi’s weatherbell.com and listen to his Saturday report for 2 weeks ago. California will be getting rain in the next few months. Perhaps not as much as it needs, but more than it has been getting the past couple of years.
http://www.weatherbell.com/
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:40:56 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:43:45 PM PDT
by
discostu
(In fact funk's as old as dirt)
To: j.havenfarm
Hey, it’s workin’ here. We are above normal pool on all the local lakes now, finally. Hell, even Lake Travis is getting there, came up 30’ in the last month.
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posted on
05/28/2015 5:29:22 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
("Why NO Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!")
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