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With Climate Change, California Is Likely To See More Extreme Flooding
NPR ^ | February 28, 2017 | by Lauren Sommer

Posted on 02/28/2017 12:18:54 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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"A new study says that global warming has measurably worsened the ongoing California drought. While scientists largely agree that natural weather variations have caused a lack of rain, an emerging consensus says that rising temperatures may be making things worse by driving moisture from plants and soil into the air. The new study is the first to estimate how much worse: as much as a quarter.

"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."

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/3258

41 posted on 02/28/2017 1:06:44 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: hillarys cankles

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.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 1:22:56 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That was then:
http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20160922/climate-change-could-extend-californias-drought


43 posted on 02/28/2017 1:34:54 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Make lemonade.)
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To: glock rocks
And without climate change California is likely to see more flooding. That is how it is in California and depends to a large extent on El Niño. The greeñies have not yet introduced a plan to tame El Niño that I am aware of. What good are they?
44 posted on 02/28/2017 2:07:42 PM PST by arthurus
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To: rdcbn
The California weather needs to be reined in.
45 posted on 02/28/2017 2:08:59 PM PST by arthurus
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To: HerrBlucher

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.


46 posted on 02/28/2017 2:10:35 PM PST by arthurus
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To: jimfree

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?


47 posted on 02/28/2017 2:13:01 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

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.

48 posted on 02/28/2017 2:37:10 PM PST by olezip
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To: upchuck

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.


49 posted on 02/28/2017 2:40:55 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...or drought

...or mild weather

...or cold weather

...or warm weather

...or rainbows

50 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:51 PM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I can only hope and pray this is true.

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!

51 posted on 02/28/2017 2:41:56 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: Mr. Douglas
Exactly. Some of the "excuses" set forth of not maintaining the reservoirs, the dams were that California was entering into a decades long drought.

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.

52 posted on 02/28/2017 2:51:32 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Progressive socialists are PISD: "Post-Inauguration Stress Disorder")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


53 posted on 02/28/2017 2:52:22 PM PST by BestPresidentEver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Until this year they were saying because of climate change California would be in a permanent drought? Which is it idiots?


54 posted on 02/28/2017 3:08:34 PM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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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!


55 posted on 02/28/2017 3:09:45 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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..


56 posted on 02/28/2017 3:55:38 PM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: Kickass Conservative

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


57 posted on 02/28/2017 4:12:16 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: glock rocks

LOL .. I was thinking the same thing.


58 posted on 02/28/2017 7:38:16 PM PST by CyberAnt (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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!


59 posted on 02/28/2017 7:41:51 PM PST by ssaftler (Hillary calls us the "alt-right". I call her and her friends the "Ctrl-Left".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
Sorry I'm late to this thread...

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60 posted on 02/28/2017 8:34:50 PM PST by tubebender
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