Posted on 04/06/2015 8:08:33 AM PDT by rktman
ABC anchor Martha Raddatz pressured Brown on criticisms that the new requirements he placed on California’s agricultural industry, which uses a reported 80% of the state’s water, were soft. To put this into perspective, Raddatz reported that more water is being used for almond production than by the combined businesses and homes of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“They’re not watering their lawn or taking long showers,” Brown said in response. “They’re providing most of the fruits and vegetables of America to a significant part of the world.”
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Yes, the drought in California
IS
“man made”. By liberal policy.
Not on their knees doing what many do in San Francisco.
Weird huh? Did they just hear about/learn about it this past week? I coulda sworn somebody’s been ringing the alarm for a while (right or, most likely, wrong) and this pillar of politics is deciding NOW is the time to act? Maybe ahnold should have done more when he was, uh, in charge. Yawn....
EEEWWWW!
Libs love to conflate “climate change” into man made climate change. While the climate may indeed be changing, as it has for 5 billion years, any connection to its being man generated would have to consider how man caused climates to change before there were men on the globe which is long before industrialization. Until someone can scientifically explain that, I just hit the snooze alarm whenever some asshat like
Brown pipes up.
They haven’t called Brown “Governor Moonbeam” since the late 70’s, for nothing.
I wonder if anyone has ever informed Governor moonbeam that a large majority of California (including southern California) is a desert. By definition, a desert does not get a lot of rainfall. Yes, you can plant grass and water the hell out of it, but you still live in an area classified as a desert and so you are not going to get a lot of rain.
They have wrecked the richest state in the union.Don’t let those golf courses get dry.
Yet no one questions Brown about misplaced priorities: 100 billion for a worthless “bullet train” and nothing for water storage.
Many years ago, civilizations learned to build dams, to prevent flooding and drought.
Try to build a large scale dam in California today.
California Uber Alles
Many of us here in San Francisco yesterday were on our knees at Easter Mass.
In 1977 California was in a severe drought. At that time restaurants quit giving water to patrons unless it was requested. When you checked into a hotel you were given directions on how to properly use the toilet how to properly take a shower and how to properly brush your teeth so that you would not waste any water. Guess who was governor at that time? You got it governor Moonbeam himself Jerry Brown. Global warming, climate change, never heard of them. It was just a cyclicle thing.
California is and was a desert until man (Spaniards and later Europeans)made it lush in areas. THAT was climate change. Now it’s come back to bite them.
Man made climate change? NOT! Climate change from the fact of the position of CA on the Pacific coast of the seriously cold waters of the Pacific ocean? YES!
Climate change IS. California is largely a desert biosphere, converted in some areas only to farming from water runoff from mountains as dependent.
Water rights and use have been a part of CA politics as long as there has been agriculture there. Ask Mexico how they are doing with their water, and why they WANT California back. LOL.
This clown Brown is a real hippie-dip bozo of pliable morals and questionable mental acuity. A lib lying user of the first order. Not to be trusted, or believed he and his leftie cronies.
Even if this is true
My parents took me to a talk (maybe it was a PTA meeting) in about 1952 in Long Beach. The speaker talked then about how we all needed to conserve water. I remember because he spoke of only using 2 or 3 inches of water in the bathtub which struck me as a six-year old boy as absurd. How would I float my fleet in 3 inches of bathwater?!
So Californians have been long aware of the problem. But actually doing something about it seems to be beyond them.
Damn fool Moonbeam. Climate change has nothing to do with it. This is the normal earth cycle and nothing man can do that will change it. Ignorance is destroying America.
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