Posted on 06/07/2021 11:06:03 AM PDT by blam
And by confiscation of firearms, raising taxes, shutting down petroleum, and defunding the police…and requiring c19 vaccination…dead people don’t drink water…
This news about the drought in California just gets better and better. The yuppy water price are going up and up. Going to need a wagon full of cash to buy a bottle.
California must be the most problematic state in the country. Who runs that place?
Hopefully that’ll minimize the draw on the Ogallala Aquifer.
A couple of decades ago some Israli companies offered California desalination plants that would water their farms and fill their swimming pools. But Cali refused to do business with Israel and instead bought a high-speed train that lined the pockets of the privleged elite.
this year we've been dry since April....
and I see clouds and clouds the last few days but no rain.....where is the moisture going to?
but agriculture is so so important....
if we were serious, we would forbide filling hot tubs and pools....
and we waste so much water....you can have a nice garden if you water properly....
Good one, Frank...one of my all-time favorites.
In the morning you go gunnin’,
For the man who stole your water,
And you fire ‘til he’s done in,
But they catch you at the border.
In a cooling cycle, water stays around as ICE, as in forming the Great Lakes.
You are correct...much dryer conditions during cooling.
Astroclimatologists agree. Sunspot activity is at an all time low, and we are headed into a grand solar minimum. This is associated with higher cloud cover and cooler temperatures.
A telling but important part of the problem was the change in global temperatures between 1890-1915 (the global temperatures declined slightly into a cooler, notably wetter West and a colder, much notably higher Rocky Mountain snowfall); then a wlaked into a rising global average temperature from 1915 through about 1975.
During that 70-80 year period, the California population was increasing, but increasing slowely from a very, very low level. The water resources in southern California were not “strained to the limit” but were actually not even using their own whole portion of the Colorado River (Hoover Dam) allotment! ALL river water is divided into electrical production, reserves, outflow for flood control (to avoid overtopping the dams BEFORE a predicted flood), and for irrigation and for drinking water and for public use (keep the lake full.)
So, AZ and NM and CO and UT were content to use “more than their share” of the water - with no complaint from anybody. The irrigation canals and pipes and fields were laid in and were productive - just as everybody knew they would be. Southern CA electrical usage was growing, but wasn’t extreme yet (no AC! Less industry, less aircraft manufacturing until the war and Cold War.)
BUT! The water allotments and sales were based on 1915 and 1916 water surveys - RUN at the HEIGHT of the maximum EVER Colorado River flow! In “normal times” there will NEVER be as much as what was promised by the politicians and resource people in 1915-1930.
Since 1975 - as global average temperatures increase, power requirements doubles and then tripled, and tens of millions more came into California needing even more power and even more water, the dam can never be expected to catch up. Rainy weather or drought or normal weather - there are too many people in the desert southern California to live as they want to live.
That has been my suspicions for 3-4 years.
Read “The Chilling Stars” by Svensmark and Halder. It’s an exceptionally well-written book about how the stars influence weather more than anything on Earth.
while the crazies were running around the pacific NW demanding destruction of dams, over on the east coast, crazies went the other way, and taxed the rain as a ‘pollutant’.
AOC would say another good reason to disband ICE.
True and most water is used by agriculture yet the people will be billed higher and higher rates while almonds and cotton are grown in California.
We had 4” of rain today, 4” last week and 5” the week before. I have 6” of standing water in my yard in places. North Texas has had more rain than average a LOT more. This time of year we should be dry until September
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