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California Now Suffering Worst Drought Ever, 2014 Hottest Year On Record
While most headlines are focused on the devastating drought in California, which by some measures is the worst on record, there is another 'factor' that has exploded to record highs - the heat. As Bloomberg reports, the California heat this year is like nothing ever seen, with records that go back to 1895 and with 70 percent of the state’s pastures rated “very poor to poor,” according to the USDA, things do not appear to be about to get better any time soon.
As Bloomberg reports,
The California heat this year is like nothing ever seen, with records that go back to 1895. The chart below shows average year-to-date temperatures in the state from January through July for each year. The eastern half of the U.S. has had an unusually cool 2014, but it's a lone exception compared to the rest of the planet.
The high temperatures have contributed to one of the worst droughts in California's history. The water reserves in the state’s topsoil and subsoil are nearly depleted, and 70 percent of the state’s pastures are rated “very poor to poor,” according to the USDA. By one measure, which takes into account both rainfall and heat, this is the worst drought ever.
Perhaps more worryingly,
The International Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 1,300 scientists, forecasts temperatures to rise 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.
That puts California's record heat well within the range of what’s to come, turning this “hot weather” into, simply, “weather.”
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I feel for California, but lets leave the IPCC out of it. Every pridiction the've made since 2000 has fallen flat.
the temperature last night at the south pole reached 89 degrees below zero. fahrenhiet, if you care.....
The reason the temperature has spiked in 2014 is easy to explain. Methane levels in the northern hemisphere are very high right now, due to the destabilization of methane hydrates around the Arctic, by warm Gulf Stream waters flowing into the Arctic ocean. The methane is right over the USA as I write.
There are lots of good articles to read about this:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/08/horrific-methane-eruptions-in-ea...
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-and-the-gulf-stre...
Maybe there are just more folks around here that are full of shit and venting lots of methane.
Did they find that the majority of high methane levels are hovering over DC? Wonder how that could happen?
"You smell that odor. It's an offense to the senses? That obnoxious odor you smell is the smell of mendacity."
Big Daddy
"Lies smell like cat piss. I don't like the smell of cat piss and this whole place wreaks of cat piss"
Al Swearingen
I know you are being sarcastic (thumbs up).
Actually, methane is odorless.
Yeah I know we have to add sulfur into the mix for safety in order to be able to smell leaks. It's good to see a poster that understands sarcasm and attempts of levity regardless of how lame the outcome may be and not jump to the conclusion that I'm a complete idiot. I'm not a complete idiot. Being I've never been able to finish anything that I start I am stuck at being an incomplete idiot. I will get there before my time runs out as I am a positive thinker.
The methane I emit is NOT odorless...that's for damned sure!
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ad-mortem-festinamus-we-hurry-death.html
Muzak for landing at LAX .
Borderline cold summer in New England this year.
Never mind the temperature charts and statistics - that's sciency stuff. I stuck my head out the window the other day and it didn't seem too hot - so therefore climate change is BULLSHIT.
The southern region I live in typically sees triple digits for the better part of a month. Have barely hit 90 for all of about 2 weeks scattered throught the summer time. I don't see how this can be called the HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD. Unless of course only the temps in California count which is very likely considering the intellectual dishonesty that runs rampant with lies, damned lies and stats.
Winter was very mild and reservoirs are almost empty: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/cctv/sm_bassmtn.shtml
And RE speculators, don't forget to keep the front yard green.
Oddly our winter was about as harsh as I've seen it. Lived in this area 8 years. Previous 2 summers were brutal. A mild winter. The this past winter was filled with snow and ice storms causing the schools to close for 17 days. Had to be some kind of record. Then the summer months came but summer was nowhere to be found much to the chagrin of pool and boat owners. I didn't complain as I hate the hot as humid weather!
What a bunch of crap.
"Snow set to blast Scotland as forecasters warn of 'coldest August spell in a century"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727734/Wet-cold-bank-holiday-wa...
Global sea ice anomaly + .713 million square kilometers:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/iphone/images/iphone.anomaly.glo...
"Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov who heads Russia’s prestigious Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg predicts that: “after the maximum of solar Cycle-24, from approximately 2014, we can expect the start of the next bicentennial cycle of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055 plus or minus 11 years” (the 19th to occur in the past 7,500 years).
Dr. Abdussamatov points out that Earth has experienced such occurrences five times over the last 1,000 years, and that: “A global freeze will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions. The common view of Man’s industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect.”
While solar output typically goes through 11-year cycles with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak, we are currently approaching the peak of “Cycle-24” with numbers running at less than half of those observed during other 20th century peaks."
wherever you find barbara the bolshivek boxer and the cloven hooved cunt pelosi - hell's heat won't be far behind
So those decades of climate intitiatives along with much higher taxes to pay for them have resulted in the worst drought ever for the area? Wow if nothing else it should prove that higher taxes accomplishes nothing and man has zero ability to affect the weather in a positive fashion.
I will go on record as saying the responsibility for mankind to keep the earth as pollution free as possible is the right thing to do and a very noble pursuit, not from a climate changing perspective but more of a moral responsiblity. We should not be a nation of pigs but we should also be humble enough to realize that we cannot control weather patterns by raising taxes for the privilege of using and manufacturing energy.
If the use and manufacturing of energy is known to be harmful without qualification then shame on the government for allowing the practice to continue for another day and then have the temerity to say "we know its destroying the planet but if you pay enough money to buy carbon credits we will still let you destroy the planet. If you can't afford the price, fuck you and be on your way." A certain amount of hypocrisy in that government message that I have never been able to reconcile in an intellectually honest way.
And if you don't agree with us we will call you a "DENIER". OOOHHH that's so hurtful. Stick and stones...
What climate initiatives? All along America has refused to do any.
That's what's driven the problem to be so bad.
Funny how the only nation on Earth in denial, America, can only sustain is economy on petro-dollars.
Funny how everyone else who isn't America sees global warming is real.
Literally on Earth it's hard to find a single denier who isn't American.
Hmmmmm, Easter HALF? Well up here in Oregon temps have been quite normal all year. So maybe it's a much smaller area that's allegedly experiencing "record breaking" hot temps. Bloomberg, exaggerate much??!!
looking at the longer term 60-Month chart, the longest NOAA provide, we find that many previous periods in California have been much drier. Perhaps the most serious and long running drought was during the 1920’s and and 30’s. The blue lines, by the way, are trends lines (not means). As the legend shows, precipitation trends are basically flat across the 110 year record.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/drought-in-calif...
Wasn't NOAA caught taking actual temps out ot the history record and replacing with their model data...
I guess those California farmers had better learn about things like drought adapted melons and tepary beans, which, BTW, are awesome.
They do well in poor soils with little water. Put them in rich soils with a little irrigation (not much) and you'll be cussing them because one plant will easially put out 100 pods if not more, which means a lot of shelling. Grow one to three seed packets and you should get enough seed from the plants to plant an entire acre the next year. I like to make my beans in the canner. One piece of bacon, some crushed garlic ~1 tsp salt and ~1tsp of baking soda for a quart, half that for a pint. Teparies will come out tasting sweet and buttery.
EDIT: 1 cup of dried beans per quart with a processing time of 90 minutes, or 1/2 cup for pints with a processing time of 75 minutes. In both, leave about an inch of headspace in the jar. I can everything at 15psi due to my altitude. Not sure for you lowlanders. This is not an FDA approved method, but 75-90 minutes in what is fundamentally an autoclave for food is going to kill shit dead.
Los Angeles temperature has been below average almost every day this year, well, since about March anyway. If the winter months were a degree or three above average in the accompanying drought, that is misleading. Basically I don't believe the claim, period. Of course the drought is real enough, though just how novel that is is another matter.
I took a course back in April in Santa Cruz in rainwater catchment.
It was the biggest class they had ever had. Many were landscape people whose clients wanted to catch their rainwater to save their landscape.
Me, I was just there to learn how to save drinking water.
Maybe they were thinking of that too?
the humans did it buy shit you don't need In Bloomberg We Trust and what else? O yeah god invented vibrators.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08/04/death-valley-was-cooler-than-missoula-mont-on-sunday/
Maybe there can be some rain derivatives traded? Or maybe the FED could print up some rain... Maybe a Federal Bureau of Statistics could revise rain measurements upwards.
Three most commonly used solutions used nowdays that can fix ANYTHING!
Was in Spago a week ago. Overpriced overrated. The Rodeo Drive niqab crowd is only growing larger. No water shortage in Beverly Hills, everything is green. Does anyone work in LA? How does one hipster find another in LA? They all look alike.
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print rain.
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That damned Gore.
Chemtrails will do that.
Record Cold Summer Leads To Changing Leaves In August
"Pittsburgh is dealing with one of the coldest summers in history, and it’s having an effect on the trees. Friday morning temperatures fell into the 40s in Western Pennsylvania. Meteorologists say these cold temperatures are leading to trees changing colors in the middle of August.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/experts-cold-summer-leads-to-c...
Here in Southern WNC the Maple leaves are already starting to hit the ground, green.
Let me guess - very dry soils / little rain ? Kinda hard for plants to keep foliage without water in the ground, that's ecophysiology 101.
No, a wet Spring and Summer, ferns grow on my property. Better luck next time.
Yeah that mysterious break-down of the circumpolar jet stream has really screwed them over, hasn't it?
Just wait until winter, and that shit unwinds like the 7th ring of Hell.
What i find amazing is that the global heat engine going bat-shit insane doesn't scare more people.
Indeed. The excess moisture led to ice-storms & insane snow-fall. I had to boil water to melt it, salt wasn't enough.
Toronto breaks temperature record for Aug. 14 – for being cold
"There’s no denying it: it’s been cooler than normal for the past few weeks in Toronto. On Thursday, the city seemed to be under a chill: People across the city donned fall coats or sweaters as temperatures peaked at 18.4 C. With a low of 11.5 C, the mean temperature for the day was a measly 15 C. In fact, Toronto broke a record for coldest daytime high: the previous record was 19.4 set in 1963 and 1979"
http://globalnews.ca/news/1506354/toronto-breaks-temperature-record-for-...
Coolest Summer On Record In The US
"The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and 2014 has had the lowest frequency of 90 degree days through July 23 on record. The only other year which came close was 1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo."
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/coolest-summer-on-record-i...
Ha ha! Steven Goddard! What a tool. Can make up any shit you want, any time.
And Europe, Russia? Greece?
Those of us in Syracuse are still waiting for summer to get here. We had 10 or 12 days of high temps the entire season. 2 weeks of regular rain this month alone.. and it's 68* right now. This morning it was 60*. We don't typically see this kind of weather for another month. I'm expecting one motherfucker of a winter again..
skateboarding had its resurgence in the early 1970s as cali emptied pools became the breeding grounds for dogtown "z-boys"... just say'n
have had a month of warm if not hot weather in seattle-a little rain, and Tstorms very wierd
Its currently 63 degrees F in San Francisco.
And rain, rain , rain ? Bueller ?
Because the IPCC is so impartial about temperature data...
Look! See! It's hot in California, so we are still relevant and need our funding!
"We can hedge that for ya with some weather derivatives"
Goldman Sachs
The problem is now so huge and out-of-control it is hard to care anymore.
There will be no escaping this grinding destruction.
Goggle a lecture by Prof Bob Carter on YouTube. He totally debunks the IPCC lies and gives all the facts and figures to demolish the Global warming fanatsists Bullshit claims.
One guy, can do all that. Either he's got a direct line to God, or he's crazy as a pet coon.
Any idiot that quotes the IPCC as though they are credible, should not be read...and certainly shouldn't be reposted to ZH.
And you are an expert here ... how?
One need not be an expert...one merely needs to be objective, and be capable of reason.
Precise opposite of the truth. Not one source on Earth has higher credibility. Not one.
Nigga, nevah go full retard.
Were fucked! " DROUGHT" I can see it, smell it and taste it in the air. Avid skier at Kirkwood, boater, jet skier, kinda getting worried...Folsom Lake is back to drought stage and it's only the middle of August, just wait until Christmas ho ho ho
It better snow like a mo'fo or the Sierra ski resorts are gonna BK.
The International Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 1,300 scientists, forecasts temperatures to rise 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.
Old statistic. Now 1,300 say an ice age has begun and over the next 50 years the Thames will be frozen solid.
They are already closing the Thames Barrier more often than expected due to increased sea level generating tidal surges. Add in the expected increase in rainfall and you can expect London will be underwater one year out of ten.
Enjoy.
This is to kill off all the organic farms. Then the non-organic farms will thrive.
This thing is drying up fast, and ground water levels is mostly gone or sinking fast. How will ANYONE do serious farming without water?
Back in the day peeps used to pray for rain. Ex Catholic monk, now new ager Jerry Brown better get some knee time in.I'm talking Biblical proportions here, Jerry
Nice. It's been a while since we had a solid global-warming religious debate.
Been colder at night than the last several years of summers in my parts. I didn't check up on Europe or Russia weather patterns as much as I'd like. Been busy since preparing that gold price model to 2024 $4500.
Central Europe: one of the coldest summers in memory. June felt like October, July had maybe one week of hot weather. Had to switch on heater on August 16 - first time ever this has happened.
Was there a mass movement of commentors recently from Fox News site to ZH?