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California drought: Scientists to probe cause
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Posted on 01/24/2014 11:25:55 AM PST by chessplayer

Washington -- California's drought will be one of the extreme weather events that the American Meteorological Society will examine later this year to determine whether the cause is natural variability or human-caused climate change, a federal official said Tuesday.

Scientists have not yet linked the California drought directly to climate change, Thomas Karl, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center, said Tuesday in announcing the latest study. "I'M SURE THERE'S A WAY, but we haven't done it yet," he said.

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KEYWORDS: cadrought; califdrought; california; drought
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To: BfloGuy

Don’t ya know that the Dust Bowl was caused by man. We just didn’t have the technology to explain it./s


61 posted on 01/24/2014 8:50:23 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (The more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.)
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To: chessplayer

Probable caused by the same thing that caused the dust bowl and all the other big droughts - lack of water/rain.


62 posted on 01/25/2014 3:00:11 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: chessplayer; All

I cannot substantiate the following assertion either scientifically or factually; just thinking out loudly.

As a consequence of their tunnel-vision delirium to buy votes from a growing number of illegal immigrants and their sympathizers with taxpayer dollars, I wonder if Democratic politicians have possibly completely overlooked that California’s water resources needed to be expanded to handle the larger crowd.


63 posted on 01/26/2014 8:39:52 PM PST by Amendment10
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