This picture shows how much California is sinking

CNBC ^ | 08 March 2017 | Robert Ferris

[dearolddad]

Global warming! Global warming !!

[Buckeye McFrog]

"...California is sinking"

yeah, well, look at who the Captain is

[rockrr]

Curious (and a little alarmed at the prospect of becoming a Morlock) I went outside to view the ground around my home. Thank the Lord it’s still brown and not purple, blue, or yellow like the picture!

[Leep]

Like Cali has sank quite low. Like you know what i am say’n.

[leakinInTheBlueSea]

"My fear is that the whole island state will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,"

[Mariner]

“Parts of California are sinking because rich liberals need to water their lawns, fill their swimming pools every day, and stay green.”

Nonsense.

The areas that are shrinking have, maybe, 100 liberals living there.

It’s all farmers and a farming economy.

Except Jim, of course.

[mewzilla]

They’ve offered a hypothesis that the subsidence is do, solely or in part, to the drop in water levels. But where’s the proof? Looks like their data is from 2014 on. That’s not much.

[husky ed]

My God they should have build another freeway, as it seems the sinking stopped at I-5 ;-)

Ed

[CIB-173RDABN]

Record rains, floods. reservoirs so fall they have to release water, record snow packs, dams breaking but they have to keep up with the story we are in the middle of a drought.

Who are you going to believe, your soggy feet or the lying government.

[bert]

The phenomenon has long been recoginized it is continental subsistence. Many think oceans are rising but the reality is continents are drifting to lower levels

[Lorianne]

Global sinking?

[Lorianne]

Yes, too many on the coast and not enough people inland.
the whole state could flip over at any time!

[SFConservative]

And a good part of this problem is due to:

• a halt in building reservoirs since the 1970s, as the legislature turned predominantly Democrat and Jerry Brown ended reservoir and freeway construction to be able to spend more money on direct vote buying with more and more entitlements
• more and more diversion of Northern California water to the Los Angeles basin to keep swimming pools filled and lawns green
• in the current decade, dumping of massive amounts of reservoir water directly down through the Sacramento / San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay into the ocean to keep approximately 6 delta smelt happy

All of this progressively has withdrawn water from California's Central Valley agriculture engine, so that many farmers began to draw more and more water from wells and deeper aquifers, which of course is now seeing restrictions as well.

[SparkyBass]

well played, sir! :D

[mass55th]

I didn't think California could sink any lower. Must be the weight of all those illegals they've let in.*

*"Rep. Hank Johnson said he feared that stationing 8,000 Marines on Guam would cause the island to 'become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize' ".

[Milton Miteybad]

The real message is Corcoran, where the state of kalifornia has huge deep wells where they pump water to sell to irrigation districts.

Interesting. So, it follows that the State of California itself is largely (if not wholly) responsible for the subsidence in the Corcoran area due to underground fluid (i.e., water) withdrawals.

I wonder what sort of tax scam the State of CA will come up with to punish its private citizens for the malfeasance committed by the state. ;-)

[Rebelrage]

The ground is sinking! Because Whitey.

[upchuck]

Reason 407 why I’m glad to NOT live in CA.

[upchuck]

As good, or better, than all the other wacko theories.

NOTE: I am NOT calling you or your theory wacko :)

[Skybird]

25 years ago, you could drive through parts of California’s Central Valley and see fire hydrants on large piped were 6-8’ above the surface caused by the ground subsiding. I last saw them as I was leaving California in 1991...never to return, either.