It's the Desert, Stupid

Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2014 | Michael Reagan

[Durbin]

Hmm, wonder how he explains the rain that started last night and will hit So-Cal for at least the next 4 days?

[Gaffer]

Earlier in the late 80s and later, I spent quite a bit of time at China Lake, Edwards, et al. Definitely desert, like much of the areas that surround them. China Lake is just a couple hours drive or so to Death Valley.

On base at China Lake, there is an arroyo or small canyon that a government friend took us by to visit. a long sloping canyon that narrowed out eventually, but there on the rock cliffs and outcroppings (all over it) were glyphs and drawings, etc. that are very old, presumably left there by the desert dwellers that lived there.

[JRandomFreeper]

It rains in the desert. Just not a lot, or often. Annual rainfall rate is what counts. California is mostly desert.

/johnny

[rockrr]

Someone better send John Kerry an high school elementary school geography textbook.

[txrefugee]

And of course, the more people conserve, the less revenue for water and electric utilities. Then they have to jack up the utility rates so high that The Poor have to be subsidized by increasing rates even more on the paying consumers.
What a mess.

[Texas Eagle]

Talk about wasting water. Talk about stupid

Talk about perpetuating conditions to make it easier to control an undereducated populace.

[Durbin]

I know it is. I live in California. It started raining this morning and will continue through Sunday. I wonder if John Kerry considers that to be “Climate Change” also.

[b4its2late]

A picture that speaks a 1,000 Stupids:

[elpadre]

I had my basic training at Camp Roberts - in the desert.

[AlanGreenSpam]

“Global Dumbing” activists like Kerry thrive on the ignorance of the unwashed masses.

Low precipitation in California is due to COLDER Pacific waters where the water vapor is generated for storms that cause rainfall.

A warmer Pacific Ocean means MORE WATER VAPOR for storms to work with. So Drought in California is the result of GLOBAL COOLING, not global warming as Scary Kerry claims.

Get it, folks???

NOAA has a website that discusses SST’s (Sea Surface Temperatures) and it’s predictive value as to whether or not there will be an El Nino or La Nina winter.

[Let's Roll]

We’ll written, Michael.

[Carry_Okie]

And they pooh-poohed the idea that the answer to our future water needs is more reservoirs, which they said are too expensive.

Groundwater storage has less evaporative loss.

[Carry_Okie]

Low precipitation in California is due to COLDER Pacific waters where the water vapor is generated for storms that cause rainfall.

NOAA has a website that discusses SST’s (Sea Surface Temperatures) and it’s predictive value as to whether or not there will be an El Nino or La Nina winter.

While what you are saying with regard to saturation capacity and dew point is true, I am beginning to think that the main contribution of sunspot activity is cloud nucleation by cosmic rays. Over the last ten years, I have been tracking the correlation between equatorial surface water temperature and annual rainfall. Whether it is an "El Nino" or "La Nina" year has virtually no predictive value. This year, for example, was well within the "normal" range.

[Carry_Okie]

BTW, NOAA has a site with surface temperature data here.

[Vaduz]

Another high IQ democrat.

/s

[Cyber Liberty]

The liberals feel good about themselves when we lose precious fresh water to the Ocean, and that’s the important thing. This is California.

[Cyber Liberty]

Last time I saw a mouth like that I put a couple of sugar cubes in it....

[Foolsgold]

I live in San Diego and several years back a drought watch was put in place (No car wash, no lawn water) Goal was set to cut 50%. The news hammered this goal every hour on the hour. The goal was met with much fanfare. San Diego water looked at the bottom line and said well shoot, we just lost over half our income, so guess what.............?

[RipSawyer]

Yeah, the last time I saw a mouth like that I put a bit between those teeth, slipped a collar over that ugly head and then put the hames on. The damned mule was smarter than Kerry though. Better looking too and actually worth feeding for the work he did. Way out ahead of JFK II.