[Tenacious 1]

While not mentioned, they seem to forget that much of California is a natural desert. It has been argued that man changed much of that desert into lush farmland through technology and massive irrigation. Man actually brought water into the desert regions. This brought the needed humidity to be absorbed into the atmosphere that would also provide rain in the otherwise very dry regions that were formerly farmland. The wackos that stopped all that irrigation may have actually employed a real life “butterfly effect” by letting nature reclaim itself... return to a desert climate. I’m not suggesting that this is the sole reason for the drought. But it does have some logical basis.

[cripplecreek]

While not mentioned, they seem to forget that much of California is a natural desert. It has been argued that man changed much of that desert into lush farmland through technology and massive irrigation.

That's exactly why I am a big supporter of keeping a fair portion of our vegetable crop farming in the places they were in a century ago. While I recognize the value of longer and multiple growing seasons of southern California, its also a vulnerability.

In the summer of 2012 the Michigan fruit crops were pretty much wiped out by drought but those same crops were in abundance in the pacific northwest. In the summer of 2013 we had bumper crops here. The orchards were picking unripe apples to prevent the limbs from breaking under their weight. My apple trees produced apples the size of grapefruits.