Too many ‘rats producing too much CO2.
I recently flew into the US through LAX, my flight took me from somewhere North of San Francisco South into LAX. I was shocked at the number empty reservoirs and the parched landscape you could see from the air.
And, how will they blame it on Bush?
Funny how weather changes different areas and business.
Meanwhile the governor is inviting Mexico to move here.
It’s probably a good time to buy a boat. Buy (water level) low, sell high.
Isn’t this really a mostly government caused drought???
Part of the problem is the state’s horrific “green” agenda that places greater importance on minnows that humans. But there is more at work here; the entire nation is under God’s curse. Obama is a curse, and we are cursed because our nation has betrayed Israel.
***Cities would suffer but adapt,” he found. But farmers — who use some 80 percent of the state’s water — wouldn’t fare so well...***
Cities won’t fare so well either. Ag may only account for 3% of California’s GDP, but that 3% translates to a $37+ Billion dollars a year industry. Loss of ag productivity hits the poor the hardest, both in loss of jobs and the health impacts of a limited diet:
“...our state produces a sizable majority of American fruits, vegetables and nuts; 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots and the list goes on and on. A lot of this is due to our soil and climate. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California’s output per acre.
Lemon yields, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than neighboring states. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of these products in our country and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products specifically, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
Soon, the effect on consumer prices would become attention-grabbing. Rising prices would force Americans to alter their diets...Young people and the poor in America, more than others, eat less fresh fruit when prices rise. “
http://westernfarmpress.com/tree-nuts/what-happens-if-us-loses-california-food-production
And yet, they do nothing to bring in new water source but continue to direct water to either LA County or fish in the delta.
Gotta love government resource control.
Probably a minnow downstream or overpopulation or whatever. Drought is moderate across most of Northern California: http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/index.php?id=ww_drought and severe in a small portion. But most of the news about drought is politicized propaganda including the "Drought Monitor" from University of Nebraska where they have tossed the objective standards and declared extreme drought based on political criteria.
I won’t start worrying until the Okies start moving back.
Images, what images?
IMAGES ? Since the 1970’s...
No significant new water storage has been built.
Moron California environmentalists want to have existing damns torn down
No plans to build more storage but they want a Bullet train
In the meantime the population has almost doubled since the 1970’s
The real IMAGE is one of stupidity
The real IMAGE is what you get when Democrats hold the purse strings and think they’re planning for the future
So what? They’ve saved the snail darter!
Remember a few years ago all those greenies were rhapsodizing about “breaching dams” and “restoring wild rivers”? Funny you don’t hear a lot about that lately.
The results of liberal management.
60 years ago there was no lake at Oroville at all.