Posted on 02/28/2017 12:18:54 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Californians are in shock that after five years of too little water, the problem now is too much. Some are calling this a wake-up call for California as climate change could bring similar damage.
But this shouldn't be a surprise, says Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University.
"It's actually exactly what has been predicted by scientists for at least 30 years," he says.
He says California is likely to see more extreme flooding with climate change. And the reason is pretty simple. If it's warmer, storms produce more rain instead of snow.
But that's not what California's water system was built to do when it was designed a century ago.
It was built, in large part, around the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.
California is experimenting with spreading floodwater onto fields where it can seep into the groundwater. The groundwater needs recharging after being heavily used during the drought.
But if the state is going to catch up to the climate it has now, there's still a long way to go.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
"The findings suggest that within a few decades, continually increasing temperatures and resulting moisture losses will push California into even more persistent aridity. The study appears this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters."
These people are not morons. We are the morons. They are very successful snake oil salesmen. They have made billions with this scam. Andwho paid for it? We did.
That was then:
http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20160922/climate-change-could-extend-californias-drought
And whatever happens that is good is also bad and due to climate change. Whatever happens including the loss of your favorite team in the Rose Bowl is due to climate change.
They don’t build and fix dams and channels during a drought because they don’t need them then. They don’t build and fix dams and channels during the flood because hey how ya gonna work on that stuff under 11 feet of water?
This writer does not know the difference between variations in weather and climate change.
It is a shame that the media are too ignorant in science matters to be able to use some discernment.
Talk about junk science!
California is likely to see more extreme flooding if similar weather conditions prevail. Climate change could be in play if such conditions persist over a period of, say, 100 or more years.
I live in Southern CA. I’m not in shock because of a little rain. If a Tornado hit my House, then I would be in shock.
Liberal hyperbole, it’s all the rage.
...or mild weather
...or cold weather
...or warm weather
...or rainbows
But this shouldn't be a surprise, says Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University."It's actually exactly what has been predicted by scientists for at least 30 years," he says.
He says California is likely to see more extreme flooding with climate change.
Now I know I need to move to the Georgia countryside of my youth and raise more White Faced Herefords to increase the carbon dioxide and methane levels!
That dams, reservoirs could be eliminated.
Remember that years ago, the term 'global warming' became a punchline for so many jokes. Hence the term 'climate change' came into existence to negate the continuing ridicule and allow an all encompassing settled science to push upon the low information voters.
I’m a Californian and I’m not in shock. It’s called a Pineapple Express and this is what they do. The one in ‘93 was worse.
Until this year they were saying because of climate change California would be in a permanent drought? Which is it idiots?
California needs to stop wildfires so the hills won’t turn into massive mudslides. How? Goats. Use goats to prune the brush and the root systems will keep the soil on the hill sides rather than down in the low areas.
This means goat herders. Which creates jobs, which also promotes renewable byproduct s such as milk and feta! A renewable industry for the fledgling country of Californio!
“Californians are in shock that after five years of too little water”...If there is Global Warming,. where was it for Cali., the last five Years? Maroons..
Tornados do touch down here. One passed near my parents’ house in Fullerton in the late 1970s. I was in my room in the back of the house, and I remember hearing something like a freight train passing behind us. It traveled diagonally and took off a roof on a house on Commonwealth Avenue, which had tarps over it for quite a while after as they repaired the damage.
Of course they’re nothing like what hits in the Midwest, but here’s a list I found online:
http://ggweather.com/climate/tornado.htm
LOL .. I was thinking the same thing.
This was the headline in this morning’s East Bay Times. Talking about how SF and Oakland airports would be flooded, etc., etc., etc. I swear that Bill Nye had the byline on it.
Good thing it was ludicrous or I could have had trouble digesting my breakfast bagel!
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