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.
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We is too broad of a term. You and I are not the morons. We get the scam. However, the majority of our countrymen have fallen for it so we are forced to go along with the morons through funding these scams with our taxes.
I’ve brought up a tax payer result with nary a reply from the good people here at FR. it doesn’t work if only a few people do it. Those few will find themselves under the boot of the IRS. A million people making a statement will put them back on their heels.
Actually we prayed for rain since 1988 in California, and finally got it, all at once. Happened in Texas, too.
Followed by drought - just like always.
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