Jay Familglietti, NASA’s top water scientist, recently warned that California has only a year’s supply of water left in storage facilities and the backup groundwater is rapidly depleting. Despite this harrowing fact, California has no backup plan to address this crisis.
“California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain,” stated Familglietti. “In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.”
UPDATE: California Gov. Jerry Brown issues ineffectual, mandatory water restriction as one-third of our nation’s crops are threatened. See Page 3 for updates.
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Sounds like California s fault
I’m not pro Obama but come on that is a serious stretch to blame him for the drought
Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. The current scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but underwent global warming throughout the 20th century.[1]
Why hasn’t California desalinization all the ocean water at their door step, instead of taking neighboring states water and spending their taxe payers money on stupid stuff?
This is what u get when you waste water, like taking a $#%&!@* in fresh water. Why not recycle shower water for toylet or the gr$#%&!@*
Desalination plants, years ago dip$#%&!@*s
And the guy you’re article is about. Peiser established the Cambridge Conference Network in 1997. Peiser acknowledges that he is “not a climate scientist” and has “never claimed to be one.” His interest as a social anthropologist, is in “how climate change is portrayed as a potential disaster and how we respond to that.”[2]
He’s not a climate scientist. Wow. Hmmm. What could that mean. That he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Well damn that bridge will be pointless next year thank obama
Californians will have plenty of water when the big earthquake pushes them into the ocean .