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A long-dormant lake has reappeared in California, bringing havoc along with it
NBC News ^
| Apr 2, 2023
| Evan Bush
Posted on 04/03/2023 12:20:36 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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Wow. If I am understanding correctly, man-made climate change caused the drought in California, undoing it is causing this crisis. Dammed if you do, damned if you don't.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
So people built farms on an old lake bottom. And now there is a lot of rain. The lake is filling back up. This is not a natural disaster. This is a man made disaster. Nature is doing what it always does. The men put their farms in a flood plain. Just because the average rain fall doesn’t happen every year does not make it a disaster. An average is just that. You can have far more or far less rain in any year. And since this continent is a million years old. Averaging the rain fall over the past hundred years is not enough data to calculate expected rain fall.
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posted on
04/03/2023 12:33:05 AM PDT
by
poinq
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Droughts are caused by climate change. Floods are caused by climate change. Whatever happens, it’s bad, because everything is climate change.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Like the old adage is told. Don't screw with Mother Nature.
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:02:51 AM PDT
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I wonder if this might be a mere prelude to a re-formation of
Lake Corcoran?
Regards,
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:12:20 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
This is what happens when you build on a lake bed.
CC
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:13:15 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: alexander_busek
What about the Salton Sea?
CC
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:14:29 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Atmosphere river, river, river. Wait’ll the atmospheric ocean hits ‘em.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
The influence of climate change can make the state’s extremes more intense.And it only happens in California. They're special.
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:55:22 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
A pretty good silver lining, probably, is the water table is rising, groundwater is being refilled.
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posted on
04/03/2023 1:55:37 AM PDT
by
buwaya
(Strategic imperatives )
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Why do I think there was a damn down the road that we took out. I remember that they were doing something somewhere that would result in the old Lake.
Will have to do a bit of googling. The environmentalists are probably doing a gleeful "Rain Dance".
To: where's_the_Outrage?
To: where's_the_Outrage?
NONE of this would happen if we didn’t have gas stoves and didn’t drive a car!!
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posted on
04/03/2023 2:21:21 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Sacajaweau
To: where's_the_Outrage?
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I found an article that says that this has happened in several years. Farmers creating farmlands is nothing new and they are not doing a bad thing. Farmers are the best environmentalists in the world. Their goal?? Feeding the world.
Diverting water is not a new concept.
To: Sacajaweau
To: where's_the_Outrage?
This is/was a very shallow Lake which apparently was revived every year from the snow runoff. They constructed nearby basins to address this spring thaw while at the same time making it usable for farming. Nothing wrong with that.
The Genesee River flooded the City of Rochester until they built a damn. They release water periodically. Or would everyone prefer no city...No kodak...no Xerox...No U of R...
Nothing wrong with Engineering to solve problems. Climate change CAUSED BY MAN has nothing to do with this.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
“Experts say”
If they were experts, they would have predicted, advised, and avoided the consequences. I’d guess these are opinionated fools, rather than experts.
Not sure what qualifies one to be considered an expert, but I’m betting the bar is pretty low.
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posted on
04/03/2023 2:53:50 AM PDT
by
Fireone
(The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
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posted on
04/03/2023 3:14:29 AM PDT
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devane617
(Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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