Posted on 04/26/2015 4:41:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan
That California’s catastrophic drought is a result of global warming has become a commonplace of contemporary political rhetoric.
That truism isn’t true: Most scientific accounts of California’s current dry spell link recent low precipitation to naturally occurring atmospheric cycles, not to global warming.
Indeed, most of the global-warming models relied upon by those advocating more-invasive environmental policies predict that warming would leave California with wetter winters — winter precipitation being critical to the snowpack-dependent state — rather than the drier winters at the root of the state’s current water crisis.
What some studies do suggest is that warmer temperatures make the effects of scanty precipitation more intense for California’s end users of water, a reasonably straightforward proposition — higher temperatures will probably contribute to higher demand for water and will certainly contribute to the much more significant problem of evaporation, which steals tremendous amounts of water away from California’s outdated storage-and-conveyance infrastructure and imposes substantial water losses on old-fashioned irrigation systems.
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That's ok. The leftists are perfectly capable of believing a fallacy while the contrary evidence is sitting on their laps.
That is precisely the point...whatever reality the Left feels is best for their campaign is the “settled truth” even if it is a complete fallacy as AGW truly is.
I’ll be darned...you mean the draught is happening because it didn’t rain? Next they’ll tell us the sun causes global warming...but wait...
Nobody thinks God is in charge anymore. The vacuum leaves openings for evil.
That famous saying “YOU BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME” rings true except that in California, you build it and the environmentalists and liberals will come to destroy it...or worse yet, blame the destruction on some enviro-nazi belief that man destroys everything he touches.
California has been a lost cause for many, many years and it only gets worse with each passing year.
The old saying “you make your bed and you lay in it to sleep” certainly applies to California.
Have no petty for them for they make the shit-hole they live in. They can do something about it but WON’T!
Kaleidoscopic kolifornia’s marxist/collectivist-made, tax-and-spend, totalitarian utopia. Such a lovely place...
Building billion dollar trains with tax money is the answer!
Uhmmm, I’m sorry, what was the question?
Aaaahhh!
Socialist bureaucrats & water - such a dysfunctional marriage!
Back in 1980, Tanzania (chief proponent for “African Socialism”), was building their new capitol city, Dodoma, near the geographic center of the country, a la Brasilia. There I met a Yugoslav hydrologist who was tearing his hair out trying to find enough water to supply a new capitol in a region with less than 1 meter of rainfall and more than 2 meters of annual evaporation. Somehow “Stroke of the Pen, Law of the Land” does not work outside of politics.
BTW, Dodoma literally means “It has sunk” in Gogo, the Bantu language spoken by the Gogo people of Dodoma Region.
“The old saying “you make your bed and you lay in it to sleep” certainly applies to California.”
It should but it doesn’t. They just move and screw up other
peoples beds.
ny all means... relinquish competition and free choice to bureaucrats who in 2000 years have CREATED NOTHING OF ECONOMIC VALUE AND SQUANDERED TRILLIONS ON FAILED SOCIAL PROGRAMS....
but they are sooooooooooo smart cause they have them there ivy league degrees.....and always talk in multicylable misapplied words and obfuscate failure with GOOD INTENTIONS.... and refuse to take responsibility for FAILURE....it’s bush’s fault...
yeah by all means reject reason and common sense and go with the COMMIES.... it works in cuba, n korea, burma and russia.... oh wait IT DIDN’T...
free choice is the way to go... the commies like CRONY CAPITALISM AND 35% TAX RATES ON COMPANIES ....despite studies showing that anything over 15% stifles growth...
most people realize it is the sun effecting ocean currents that effects the “weather” and it happens in cycles of up to 11 years in the short term and thousands in the long term.... man’s contribution globally to co2 is less than 2%.... the other 98% is MOTHER NATURE and as the ad went ...DONT F WITH MUTHA NATURE
....yeah...fact is the Sun's magnetic field is declining....so less sunspots are formed
...expect no sunspots around 2020-25 and the onset of a new mini ice age.
Global Warming... The idiots concern.
When it’s cold, “weather isn’t climate.” When it’s warm or dry, it’s global warming. Interesting how that works.
Well, bummer. I kept looking for the guacamole recipe...
most of the global-warming models relied upon by those advocating more-invasive environmental policies
And there is your answer folks. FRAUD
There should only be 1 MODEL and it would be absolutely Accurate in predicting the past as well as the future.
Once they figure that out, then we’ll have them screaming for coal fired power plants!
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