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"Nobody Has Any Idea How Disastrous It's Going To Be" Warns California Water Expert
Newly released images created from NASA satellite data illustrate the staggering effect the California drought has had on groundwater supply in the state. As Mashable's Patrick Kulp explains, the images show the amount of water lost over the past 12 years, with different colors indicating severity over time. “Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press, as RT reports a growing number of communities in central and northern California could end up without water in 60 days due to the Golden state’s prolonged drought. While California is bearing the brunt, experts note "We're seeing it happening all over the world, in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world."
California is currently experiencing the third year of one of the most severe short-term droughts ever recorded. Data from U.S. Drought Monitor shows that as of Sept. 30, 82% of the state is facing extreme or exceptional drought conditions.
But the state is not the only area being plagued by critical drops in groundwater reserves. Data collected by GRACE indicates that the supply of groundwater is in decline worldwide, especially in regions that rely on it most.
"We're seeing it happening all over the world. It's happening in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world where we rely on those aquifers. But we're able to see now the impact we're having on this over exploitation," Famiglietti told Science Magazine.
But it's getting extremely serious in California (as RT reports),
A growing number of communities in central and northern California could end up without water in 60 days due to the Golden state’s prolonged drought.
There are now a dozen of small communities in Central and Northern California relying on a single source of water – which has the water resources board concerned they will not have any at all in two months’ time.
At a mobile home park north of Oroville, more than 30 families are severely cutting back. The water supply is so tight it is shut off entirely between 10 pm and 5 am, according to CBS Sacramento. The families are relying on one well – all the others have dried up – and have to drive five miles to buy drinking water for themselves and their animals.
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In conclusion...
“Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press.
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If you found that video interesting, you may also like to watch this interview that Dane Wigington just did with Sean Stone: http://youtu.be/0wkE2-80bwM?list=PLjk3H0GXhhGc7NOFr74KbOPBCXrXT8nlf
Off-topic:
Are an afternoon in Brazil, just vote for President, Governor of my State Senator, Congressman and State Representative.
530,000 electronic voting machines throughout Brazil, and direct vote, in my city, biometric.
You stick your thumb and vote.
That's Democracy in America you have no idea of the pleasure I have in voting.
Even being required between 18 and 70 years, is a lesson in democracy without bombs, without cocuns.
If it works?
It works!
Compulsory voting prevents some loser who does not like to tell the government who did not vote.
Who do not vote can not take passport, can not run for public tender and can not open a bank account.
Some morons will say - I am free not to vote - okay, you also have freedom to kill, shoot to the head or jump off a cliff, but that does not mean that you are free and outside the company.
Voting is an act of citizenship.
Especially when YOU DIRECTLY vote their president or governor.
I spent an hour in line, I talked to several people, I found a guy who was born in the same city as me.
Pacas was fun, you can not imagine!
:-)
Sure. I guess it's more fun that everyone participates in who is going to metapohorically rape you and take any wealth you could possibly generate.
Listen dumbfuck, I've read about enough of your "besteiras". Direct vote so you can re elect the same ladroes who rob you blind and keep 30% of your population illiterate and on bolsa familia. Was just in Florida and saw thousands of your countrymen running around Orlando. Let me tell you something: Brazilians are now some of the fattest fucks crawling the planet. More women with 3 foot wide asses and guys with guts so big they'd be lucky to find their tiny dicks than I've seen in a LONG time. Loudmouth obnoxious cafona mother fuckers as far as the eye could see paying for their trips in 50 pagamentos right sport?
My wife's Brazilian and she's thoroughly embarrassed by the lot of you. Not sure what you're so proud of but those of us who know you're little corrupt corner of the world laugh at your pathetic boasting. Enjoy your 120K Hondas and women giving birth in the streets, idiota. And good luck with another term with the buck tooth dyke. You're going to need it.....
@ First, there ...
Thank God you got that Brazilian my country!
I hope she's fat like all the old American who met!
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
If you do not know, physics explains:
By the size of the butt you get the pressure per cubic centimeter at the head of the stick!
Of course if the woman is fat, you do not come in the heated hole. Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
You come to criticize the Family that the Government gives FAMILIES Minus earning that $ 35!
The United States government gives to poor cellular phones pros!
Buster!
Look in the mirror before criticizing the Brazilian Government loser!
hehe!
* I swear to you that never met a man so insane as interlocutor.
Sinceramente, nao entendo ABSOLUTAMENTE nada do que vc esta falando. Estou sendo sincero com voce pq conheco varios Brasileiros (morando aqui nos Estados Unidos - hmmmmm - pq??) com um pingo de inteligencia q vc claramente esta faltando. O seu Ingles e horrivel! Para de escrever em Ingles, por favor. NINGUEM entende. Voce ainda nao entende isso? lol. Vc nao tem vergonha, nao cara? Gringo/Americano q fala o seu idioma dez vezes melhor q voce fala Ingles (e provavelements fala Portugues melhor q vc).
Ja conheci varios Brasileiros falando mal dos Estados Unidos e tres anos mais tarde, eles estao morando em Miami. Pq sera, amigo? Monte de Brasileiros nem voce falando mal dos Estados Unidos mas viajando pelo pais pra fazer compras pq o seu pais e, pelo menos, 20 anos atrasado e a maioria dos Brasileiros sabe disso. Cuitado de voce. A inveja e rancor dentro de voce e obvio. Vai la transar com uma das suas gordinhas, babaca. Relaxe um poquinho.
And comparing your government to the US as some sort of barometer of how well you're doing is pretty fucking sad. And the fact is that Brazilians are still pouring out of your country in a desperate effort to escape the violence that dwarfs that OF THIS country. Now that's pretty sad. I have spent a lot of time in Brazil and know some great people from there and by in large they would certainly think you're a dickhead, too. But keep boasting for all the folks to see what a paraiso Brazil is. Only place in the world you can pay an effective 50% tax rate and break your axle pulling out of your driveway. But I guess you still have kick ass Futebol, right? Nicht wahr? lmao.
Recognize their inveva the whites of your eyes.
The keyboard is like looking face to face, are the window to the soul.
Stick your finger and vote for next Cocun where a guy will vote for another guy and another guy will vote for their president.
'm Even seeing you drool saliva from the corner of boda anger.
Yeah, right, democracy caliber and strength of arms is better.
You choose a country democratically and shoots, you democratically puts a bullet in five of the queue.
Only .....
At home - in the USA - you do not choose or vote for your President.
I, here in Brazil, Dilma voted for Governor in Dr. Gomide - a dentist who was Mayor of Annapolis - State Representative to vote in Gustavo Sebba -lecionei Geography in Anglo College, he was my student fifth grade through eighth grade four years teaching me without well who the guy is, he is now Physician formed.
Do you have it there?
You know what is Democracy?
hehe.
“Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” BULLSHIT
Our leaders predict the future all the time.
We have to bail out the Banks or the world will end.
Our foreign policy is not controlled by our greatest ally in the ME.
Russia is going to take over Europe if we don't stop them.
Free trade will create millions of jobs for Americans.
The list goes on and on and on. If it was 2000 yrs in the past they would be known as profits.
No, I did not spell it wrong because they always profit.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Desalination-plants-a-pricey-option-i...
"As the drought bakes its way toward a fourth year, the state has a string of secret weapons in the works that could supply millions of gallons of new drinking water and help stave off disaster: desalination plants."
Will see who wins the battle over climate change and the nuts running the state. My money is on the survival of the populaces. If the state sees no rain this winter watch how the climate change nuts get rolled over for the populaces surviving a drought in CA.
Who will build it? Who will recive rent from it? and who is going to price it. Make a problem and charge for the solution.
IS there an ETF for Cali MBS Credit default swaps??
get long!!!
Gotta be man-made global warming since it isn't like there are places that have a lot of water. It has rained more in the last few years where I live than I ever remeber before in my 35 years of life.
This couldn't simply be a natual thing especially since I have read from "experts" saying similar or worse droughts have happened in that area and elsewhere before records were kept 120-140 years ago. Then again, according to the world now, the world's weather history is only as much as when records have been kept. A planet billions of years old yet its actual weather history is only 120-140 years old.
No. AGW (if it is a real phenomenon) is probably ADDING to Cali's water albeit insignificantly. What is happening here is a reversion to a mean. Every few centuries the area's climate moves from wet to dry. After 100 years of wet it is time for the dry.
Although records are only around for about 150 years for Cali (other places have been keeping records since at least the Middle Ages), there are other ways to determine rainfall patterns going back many centuries.
Yes, a nice graphic of the last several thousand years of drought in the American West.
See Figure 10 from
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/files/2014/01/NADrought.pdf
It may indeed be man-made, but not by carbon emmissions as those who stand to profit from the carbon exchange claim. Please watch these videos: Dane Wigington from Geoengineering Watch: Engineered Drought Catastrophe: Target California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8 and Wigington's recent interview with Sean Stone: http://youtu.be/0wkE2-80bwMhttp://youtu.be/0wkE2-80bwM
Man-made - maybe but not through carbon emissions as claimed by those who want to impose a carbon tax. Check out this video about geo-engineering in which Dane Wigington of Global Engineering Watch explains what they are doing: Engineered Drought Catastrophe: Target California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8 Then watch this follow-up interview that Wigington recently did with Sean Stone: http://youtu.be/0wkE2-80bwM
I grew up in the OC, when OC had more orange trees than people.
I have hated every new house that was ever built except for the few I built for myself.
I hate yoga
I hate bicycles
I hate joggers
I hate soccer moms
I hate traffic lights
Mostly, everybody here was born somewhere else.
I propose only those born in California can stay in California.
Go back bitch's
Go back hoe's
Go back ye bastids
Go back to the swamp from which you where you crawled from.
New york you rude facks
All the hayseeds from fly over
the Zonis, Nevadans, the Mormon who clog up this place every summer..
Snow birds too
Everybody else do not buy California produce
Please do not buy California craft beer either.
Just have California in your rear view mirror. Maybe then I can have MY STATE BACK
The vast majority of "hayseeds" I know of, end up returning gladly to the Midwest from wholly fucked up California.
Flyover?
I gladly flyover smug, condescending coastal shitheads whenever I get the chance.
good...go back take your car and soccer mom wife with you...I promise not to buy anything from your State.
I will however continue supporting our vast military installations to continue to protect you...
We can part as friends.
I got out almost a decade ago due to a job offer I couldn't refuse. Figured I'd do some time out of state and go back. I didn't realize how bad we actually had it in the Cali metros. It is amazing what people will suffer if they don't know better. I go back a couple times a year to see family but am always relieved to get out. Rural California might not be as bad as the cities, but the regulatory environment is still awful compared to most.
How cute
A Californian moaning that all the crazy in Cali came exclusively from other states' immigrants! (Translation: it's always someone else's fault)
oh lulz,
and roflz,
so special.
Putz!
If it was me talking - a Brazilian - would be crucified or hanged.
Excellent testimony.
hehe.
Cali is on its way to a population of 50 million or more.
3rd world people are NOT into conservation, ecology, so enjoy the future.
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it
proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water
shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species
extinction and worse.
U.S. population will double from 300 million to 600 million on its
way to 1 billion in the lifetime of a child born today if we fail to change course.(2000)
- Frosty Wooldridge
How Many More Millions Of Immigrants Can America Take?
By Frosty Wooldridge February 2010
Ever been to Mesa Verde? The weather patterns changed and the Anasazi were forced to move.
It is going to be interesting to see how the welfare state equitably distributes what is not there. You can hope to change whatever you wish but three days without water and things get interesting.
Wow. I studied those people during my peyote phase 30 years ago, when I would go to the Dark Canyon Primitive Area. Yes, a super, long drought ran them out. There are interesting cave pictures that you can tell some of the story even w/o being a scientist.
And, there are other weird things that happenthere, like your compass being off. I think there were deposits of magnetite too. I once found a uranium mine, abandoned. The area is a vast place for adventure.
I think we went to different schools together.
I just went for a walk in a small central valley California town. Sprinklers are leaving ~huge~ pools of water. Two guys were washing their cars. Winter lawns are being planted on some lawns.
Why, pray tell, does the governor not send every citizen a newsletter telling them that their green lawn is costing the state vast sums of water? Why aren't people hired to drive around to make sure there are no broken sprinklers, or excess water going down the street drains? There is not a sense of extreme emergency and I am in the middle of the crisis SO WHAT THE FUCK?
A flyer? Why not have a tiered rate structure for cities and suburbia? XXX cubic feet per month at a reasonable rate and then drastically jack up the rate from there. Some communities impose fines for watering, etc..
Please let it rain; we don't need no Cali migrants. No matter where they go, they can F-up any place.
Just about every state does a GREAT job of screwing themselves and not in a good way...
I believe fracking will prove to be a disaster.
Nevada has overbuilt and is running dry.
If you think Cali is liberal heaven try Washington State. They make Califorinians look like the heathens we are.
It is the devlopers who are in hand with the politicians. Never once does anybody adress the fact the proposed project lacks water.
I have been pounding the table on my states lack of water for years and have been against the antics of the MWD in the Owens Valley.
Save Mono Lake....
Manhattan will be an under water city soon.
The tornados will become so bad it will be too dangerous to live in any state that has em.
Hurricanes will become more intense.
Before you all bag on California you should clean up your own house.
Show those same pictures going back 200 years and you might just see that the latest set is the restart of the cycle = desert to wasteland to green paradise to wasteland to desert.
California was once desert and it's just returning to its natural state. Sorry lotusland, but that's the circle of ages.
Gakona, AK 99586
Wipe it off the map.
California has had 100 to 200 year droughts in the past. This is just getting started.
He who sells first, sells best. If I had a house or farm in the area, I would leave. Could this drought be a tiny blip on the radar screen, that goes away with the next rainy season? Absolutely it could. But then again, it may not. When you combine the potential for returning to a 100 year drought phase, with the ever increasing radionuclides bombarding the Pacific and the coastal inlands of the West coast (ala Fukushima), then why take a chance? Meh...just my opinion.
Same stuff different day for Lake Travis (down 60 feet) near Austin. Rice farmers with grandfathered riparian rights and overdevelopment. Will end badly as planned. Sure, nature has patterns, but UN Agenda 21 has HAARP and other weather warfare capabilities like chemtrails.
HAARP and persistent contrails are used in unison.
The nano-particulates of barium, strontium, and aluminum create a super-reflective atmopshere, making the intense heat generated by HAARP much more effective.
For years now, HAARP in Alaska has been focusing on pushing away any and all moisture on the Southwest Coast. It doesn't all just disappear into thin air, of course. Much of that moisture follows the jet stream and appears on the other side of the country in the form of massive precipitation - hurricanes, floods, cold blizzards.
It's not a coincidence that one side of the country bakes and fries at the exact same time that the other one remains in a state of frigid, freezing floods and storms.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org < - Educate Yourself.
Chemtrails are so 1980's.
Hydro power is 15% of cali's total.
Shut down nuke plant last year.
Now no hydro.
Burn that nasty coal?
Burn oil, gas, and Republicans.
Solar is actually becoming a significant factor, both industrial-strength solar generators and individual home systems. Wind, in spite of all those huge, expensive bird slicers, not so much.
Solar power has a good future. Wind power is blight, unless the woomping bird slicers block the ocean views of billionaire Eco-Democrats.
Will it be as bad as the swine flu epidemic that killed billions?
The avian flu that almost every American family suffered from?
Y2K, which the planet still hasn't recovered from?
THAT BAD???
You should consider posting this on the Ebola thread.
@ Amerikan Patriot
What will save your life is discernment.
No use gun in hand, no use stored food if you are not sure where to run.
Keep that in mind as well, as is the war you do not know where a grenade or mortar shot will drop but you have idea where the shit is coming.
Another thing, if a shot hits you, lie down and stay very still.
You never know where the bullet passed through her body.
Expect someone to help you.
This tip can save your life, you can not imagine how.
I already took two shots.
:-)
50 years ago somebody had the brilliant idea to grow watermellons in the desert.
We will just pump the water out of the ground, after all there are billions of gallons down there.
Fast forward to today, billions of gallons is still a finite supply.
For those who still believe that this drought catastrophe is anything but engineered...it's time to wake the f#*k up.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Oh Noes! Where will CA get water? Maybe the Ocean?
CA will die only because those that own water rights do not want to give up their stranglehold on the State. This and the regulatory nightmare to simply solve the problem once and for all. Of course I do not blame the private sector from not building desalinization, because they cannot take the chance of this not being a 100 year drought.
CA is its own worst enemy.
Janet Yellen will solve the problem by buying water futures.
Hey! I never thought of that!
Then I can water my garden with dollar bills.
We had the same problem in Thailand during the dry season...reservoir went dry, local water got shut off to our house. My husband had to put the pipe deeper and deeper into our personal emergency well to get anything out--most houses in our area in Phuket had a well on property just for such an event.
It amazes me how wasteful most water usage is...seems so indulgent to just take a hot bath and let the water drain down afterwards (as opposed to using it for washing the clothes or watering the plants or both). There are certainly ways to conserve--to cut water usage into fractions of what it is. Those strategies are not implemented in part because TPTB prefer to keep people helpless and dependent...good for maintaining power I guess...
Maybe keep a bucket in the bathroom and fill it with shower or bath water to use for toilet flush. I'm already getting letters from my CaliLand municipality warning of water shortages.
Who cares about the impact on humans -- what's going to happen to all those little fishes? /s
I want to see how Hollywood activists and the neo-utopian CA central planners are going to cope as this drags on, it was a lot easier to govern when things were just bad, not bleak.
When the crops are all gone what jobs are they going to promise the illegals? How are they going to feed them? When the flow of tax revenues are gone how are they going to pay the state pensions and expansion of schools and other infrastructure Refugee-ism requires?
Those millions of illegals need water too, so how is Barbra Steisand going to be able to water her lawn? That's the real crises.
I don't know the answers apart from one. That hook-nosed bitch will continue to have her lawn watered.
I'm afraid that Kalifornia, as well as many other parts of Amerika, will have to learn to conserve water the hard way.
Periodic drought is a fact of life in Kalifornia. Anyone who has done any research at all knows and understands this FACT of life. And the same is true about many other parts of the planet.
We waste water big time in this country. It'll be interesting to see how this water problem plays out.
The fights between ag interests and city/urban livers will be epic, especially in Kalifornia with all its swimming pools, golf courses, lawns, etc.
Bring it on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next year the big worry will be floods. All these the-end-is-nigh predictions have always been wrong. Obviously.....but you get my drift.
The drought is a seperate issue from aquifer depletion. Even if it rained everyday for a month there would be little impact to the underground aquifer levels due to the extremely slow recharge rates of underground aquifers.
http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw/ncc/Notes/chapter12.humans.env...
In the 1970s, they announced they could control weather.
The weather has nothing to do with aquifer depletion.
Where then does the water come from?
Even with normal rainfall, the aquifers are being depleted at a rate far in excess of what could be replenished.
The drought simply punctuates the fact that California has an arid climate and periods of drought are normal. It is the aquifers that are responsible for a large part of the abundance that is California agriculture. Once the aquifers are depleted to a certain level then California agriculture will contract significantly and this contraction will be permenant.
Produce H2O in a factory. It can't be that hard.
Not hard, but energy costs too much.
Depends on how much disolved minerals it has.
Regarding economic and political policy, there is no reason why water should be treated differently from other natural resources. Oil has to be drilled, copper has to be mined, trees have to grown, etc., and those who engage in these commercial actions have the right to profit from them. So why should governments control the collection and distribution of water, whether from the ground or the surface? There is no reason why supply and demand and market forces couldn't do so more efficiently. During a drought, water supplies diminish so prices go up. The higher prices go up, the more businesses and individulas are willing to collect it and sell it at a profit, while consumers save it or recycle it. Removing these incentives just causes less water to be collected and more to be consumed until it's all over - which it will be soon for California.
Jerry Brown wants to take down the gates at the border, and let people travel freely up and down the coast
Problem is ... travel only occurs in one direction ... North. My brother lives in a Mexican paradise (Cabo) but wants to move as it is no longer safe.
I been living here all my life.... California.... KILL IT.
The drought is bad enough, but the aggregate demand is much greater now too. I suspect that if rain returned to "normal" for ten years there would still be a shortage.
To repeat again, desal is the right answer for the big coastal cities, but for the central valley farmers I just don't know, unless somehow El Nino becomes the standard they are going to have to become a lot more economical of water usage. And/or, food prices go up.
Anything to save the snaildarter.
hey, socal is a fucking desert. a desert has less than 10 inches of rain/year. there is no water there and there has never been water there. encouraging millions of people to live there has always been a dumb idea. that stupidity is finally being recognized for the reason it was stupid.
@ First, there ...
I'm not afraid of you, and yes, I have a grudge.
My father was tortured by CIA agents in 1964.
My father was an employee of PETROBRAS.
You, asshole, need to know more about what your illustrious government does in the rest of the world.
You need to know how many families were dissolved from bombs and torture.
Mane!
Study a little history.
Write well in French and German, and Spanish too but I refuse to speak or learn English, just the basics.
Likewise I am writing in Google translator, I hope you with half a brain entenaa me.
Regards.
Alexandre.
The warming arctic seas and land surfaces have torn the Jet Stream to pieces. The latest data show it literally torn apart over Green Land. The larger scale ocean cycles may offer California some hope, but that El Nino seems to sputter and halt, sputter and halt, it just doesn't want to develope, despite the record sea temperatures across the Western Pacific.
California weather is a huge crap shoot. I can't see any predictions for relief, though the possibility is there. But as time passes, a few storm downpours isn't going to do it, a steady set of rains of many months will be required for a change.
The ecnomic potential is huge, California taken alone is one of earth's great economies. You just can't have economic growth without water, they found that out back 5,000 years ago when middle east civilizations rose and feel on long term weather patterns and land use.
As I said - Jack - Ripper in London:
First things first.
Wrong in planting technology generates high costs.
In Brazil we use zero tillage machines developed for it.
Do not remove the bush, do not need plowing or revolver.
In some regions use drip, a technique developed by Israelis.
There is plenty of sunshine and water here, we make two crops per year, unthinkable in the Northern Hemisphere.
Australians can not do that.
Our technology plantiu was assimilated by Chinese and much of it is in Africa through entrepreneurs with a lot of money.
It scares the United States government, which said above does not appear in the media in the USA.
For more information, search the site -Company EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research.
It is a government agency.
hehe.
I like Brazil nuts, but I can't tell you what we used to call them.
Because it's ray-ciss!
My paternal grandma called them that.
Are we talking about ni&&er toes?
Yes, but we call them Brazil nuts now.
I think he's talking about bamatoes.
What would she have called a broken bottle?
@ Ginseng...I give up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qc0akWRBQk
Ha, thanks.
Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press.”>
…and nobody f***ing cares, nobody!
“The stock market is soaring!” “Apple has a new I-Phone and there are lines around the block.” “Silicon Valley home prices are off the charts, literally.” One mil for a tiny condo in SFO.
Water, for what? If they need water they will declare an “emergency” and pump Lake Tahoe dry, then install pumps and pipes way up in Oregon and Washington, and pump their lakes and rivers dry too.
Droughts happen and this may be the biggie, or not. ALL that matters to most anyone is the stock market going up and up, what is the newest toy to buy, and how is my favorite team doing? We can get produce from Chile and set up huge de-sal plants, etc. The New Normal, the new world order, get used to it.
So, I guess by now they've stopped irrgating rice paddies in California. What an astounding waste.
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Palm Springs can use the wind farm to blow water into drought sections of California.
/sarc
Hucksters started the LA housing boom in the 1880's and it never stopped. I predict some very humbling times ahead for the OC crowd.
Uai!
Have you heard in hexachlorobenzene and pentachlorophenol?
Are the two components of Agent Orange, were produced at the factory located in Cubatao State of São Paulo - Brazil.
That in 1968 and 1973, these components give banned from manufacture in the USA or Europe.
The US Army had a contract and paid but when people started dying - soldiers - the USA stopped importing these components.
The factory continued to produce these components and, when he had no where else to shove, deposited in swamps between Cubatao and St. Vincent.
In the 80s, more precisely in 1988 were built housing on top of that swamp.
Everything was grounded.
There was no clean water and all that changed - poor - for these houses dug wells.
I met many couples with cancer, people in their 22/23 years of life, witnessed many abortions, saw guys with half of the head with hair and the other half bald, saw very, very strange children being born and dying in less than an hour.
Do you think a guy who has seen it all like Americans?
hehe.
Solomon, that's not the point.
solomon-blogspot
He left not publish it:
maybe you retards can blame yourself for dumping that shit into your own swamps and deciding to live there.
fkina
Yes!
We had it, we also had sixteen year military dictatorship - and was right in the middle of that shit that happened.
Do you have any democracy, and has fraking, it is ending its water table and you're an asshole.
Maybe your kids need water of the Amazon River in a few years.
If you depend on me, cobrarei dearly every liter.
Brazilian Slavic threat does, makes finding.
Pure logic.
hehe.
Twenty-six years of dictatorship.
:-/
I sincerely doubt you sound any more intelligent in your native language.
Put on some Baile Funk and shake your ass in your favela.
The world is full of abandoned settlements that thrived once, cities and civilisations crumble into the dust when the climate changes slightly.
The difference is that the Santos area has a million and a half inhabitants.
It is an abandoned place is insanely urbanisado.
: - /
as long as progtards die, i'm good
http://sgtreport.com/2014/09/target-of-the-engineered-drought-catastrophe-california/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8
Target of the Engineered Drought Catastrophe: California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPnWaBsMYnY
Pilots, Doctors & Scientists Tell Truth about Chemtrails
15 minute video condensed from 2 hour meeting.
Not just idle observations ... THOSE ARE FACTS!
The banksters destroying the economy with
Ponzi schemes of debt & taxes is one thing,
BUT,
geoengineering madness is criminally insane!
Constant bombardments of toxic chemicals sprayed
via airline tankers, contributing to many bad diseases!
It appears to me that the West Coast is getting hit
with worse weather modifications than others?
California always had the natural potential for serious droughts, however, that now appears to have been deliberately triggered by covert human actions. Human beings are not yet powerful enough to change basic conditions to cause natural events to happen that could otherwise not happen. However, human beings do have the technology to trigger natural events to happen, and certainly can destroy natural ecologies, through persistent, wide-spread abuses.
Overall, I believe that there are systematic efforts to destroy the American democratic republic and its rule of law, by destroying various aspects of the American economy, in every region. Of course, there are those making apparent profits while doing that, however, that does not stop that overall agenda being criminally insane.
chemtrails...lol
Bumbu Sauce:
stupid troll ...
Yes, I also believe that is Troll!
:-)
Every desert on the planet has been getting bigger for at least the last 5000 years and it has nothing to do with man. Why does it surprise anyone that California is drying up. The real cause of global warming and desertification. http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-sahara-african-hu...
The overall situation is way too complicated for any one aspect of that to be able to explain everything. I was already aware of the information in that article you linked, steelrules. As well, I have watched several documentaries that reviewed that information.
For several years, I have been attempting to figure out the relative validity of humans blamed for climate change. Indeed, I have been thinking about that more generally for several decades. However, at the present time, I believe that NOBODY understands enough to be able to say for sure.
Does it matter whether it's man or nature or both? What does matter is the need for a new strategy.
Below is a list of the worlds ten most crucial problems counted down from "least to most crucial" The world must begin to address these many problems with long term solutions. Most of these are issues that center on our sustainability.
Sadly, politicians do a damn poor job of dealing with such things leaving us without direction. As we look at the human condition we can let fate take us where it may choose or we can take control of our future by proper planning and by guiding it as best we can. I must admit it is hard to be optimistic!
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-worlds-10-worst-problems.html
Great article ... thanks
Crocodiles in the Sahara:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0617_020618_croc.html
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
Yes, svkhost, an excellent Web site!
We live on a water planet. "We" are only lacking the political will to solve this problem, rather easily I might add with existing tech.
So what would help USA more, bombing the fuck out of people 1/2 world away FOR ANOTHER GODDAMNED 20 YEARS or building a DESAL plant or three in southern California?
We're paying assholes to sit home and not work. How about paying other assholes to build this.
importing millions of people who are going to contribute below a pre-existing level of GDP per head *guarantees* that the infrastructure will slowly collapse.
too many people. just like not enough jobs the banking mafia's immigration policy was guaranteed to ensure not enough water.
All is I can say is there is a lot of penis...i mean California envy here. If you do not live here stick it....
Yesterday, went out and caught some nice yellow tail...cooked it with some onion, lemons, basil from my garden...served it with some avocado from my trees. A side of California rice and a nice local San Diego beer.
I sat by my pond and watched the sun set over the Pacfic.
I am glad everybody hates Cali...so go home already.
Yeah, here in Coastal No. County San Diego we are not suffering too bad, so the rest of you go back to planning your next one week vacation to Atlantic City or wherever you get to live large once a year.
We don't have to plan, we just stroll out the front door and, voila! another vacation day!
Meanwhile, we have a desalination plant that will be finished in a year or so, and plenty of water out in the Pacific to fuel it.
And, ZH, this is about the 10th time this year you did a piece showing that same drought map. I mean, isn't there an Ebola or ISIS crisis to write about today?
Our rain season kicks in about now, El Niño is here, so soon you'll be going on about the mudslides.
u need to check your medicinal weed. I think its been laced with a hallucinogen
California Dreamin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf7qGlGNBaI It was a beautiful day on Sept. 11, 2001 too! I was born in California. I don't recognize it.
Dear Californian's,
When you finally decide that water is an important element in daily life please go to Detroit. Texas is full.
Dear Californian's,
Just do not forget to pay the water bill.
Maybe you shouldnt build cities under a fing beaver dam
California water expert?
WTF is that...a Chinese waiter?
geoengineering lol I'll have an extra helping of fish gene tomatos tonight just for you.
Along with a nice piece of BBQ'd
E. coli salmon and bacillus thuringiensis corn.
There are all sorts of hidden consequences .
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/01/sunspots-2.html
Why not tow some icebergs to LA ?
Does the US not have any entrepreneurs left ?
Or will The People sit , wailing and wringing their hands while waiting for handouts from the Big Father in Washington DC ?
While their children hunger and thirst .
Then they deserve whatever will happen to them .
Mexico will probably retake California , but why anybody would want a desert of colossal ruins escapes me .
In our fast moving world some stories that should be noted often are overlooked and ignored. We all saw and heard about hurricane Sandy, in addition to flooding the subway system of New York and halting financial trading Sandy may of even tilted the Presidential election. If Sandy had indeed made a difference in the election outcome one might say Sandy has had the impact of also altering our future.
While we are becoming more use to these uncommon "weather occurrences", it is possible that we should be viewing them as a warning of worse yet to come. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/11/under-reported-weather-events.htm...
Aliens stealing earth's air, water and hookers! DMF'S
how can we be out of water if the sea level is rising? Just saying.
San Diego Chargers are drowning the New York Jets.
Nice Beaches
Great beer
Good Football
Awesome fishing
the best weather...
Go ahead, make my day..leave Cali.
Take your Prius with you.
I have been boycotting all CA groceries since last year when the CA legislature put in more 'Gun Control' aka People Control laws.
If it is from CA it does not get served on my table.
Well Done! Fellow NRA member.
The NRA is a PTB honeypot.
limacon :Does the US not have any entrepreneurs left ?
You didn't build that (motherfukker).
Ha!
Government KILLED "entrepreneurs".
Small business too.
Ok so I live here and can honestly tell all of you the situation is grim at best... Nobody here has a clue, they go about their normal robot days as if nothing is happening. Yea a few neighbors are letting their lawns go dead but nobody has a real grasp on the impending situation. If we don't have rain this winter season, forget about Ebola and the Fed and all the other breaking points in our economy today... It won't matter because if Cali goes down the rest of the nation goes with it! I can honestly say the situation has become dire...
yeah and I got passes for the family at Squaw and Alpine meadows and Sierra at Tahoe this upcomming season so I have skin in the game not just being a fear mongerer
"If California goes down; the rest of the nation goes with it."
I doubt it. The reduced food production in California this year was more than made up by midwestern states that increased vegetable production this year. That's why the prices didn't change much. Free-enterprise and family-owned farms are wonderful ain't they.
Many, myself included, are starting to increase their veggie plot size.
Overall, I think this could work out very well for many people.
Living here in Cali i can tell you that most of the water "shortage" is due to government environmental regulations that divert water to be wated and to shut out certain areas and industries to water.
I worked for Sierra Nevada Brewery (just quit) and at the beginning of the year the owner Ken Grossman spoke to the company about where things were going etc. We addressed the water issue and he said he was assured by the state that he had pelnty of water.
The state never does anything to save the runoff into resevoirs and lakes. Just lets in run into the ocean or lets SF and SoCal leech off everyone elses supply.
Water is diverted to save a worthless delta smelt but farmers are forced to go out of business because the goverment shuts off their water.
If u don't support organic then we'll just bankrupt you by using conventional farming because your operating costs will NECESSARILY SKYROCKET! Just like energy and coal.
I'm not saying that there is no drought but, there are cycles that anyuone with a pea brain can see this.
BTW, "organic" farming uses more water for less acreage than modern techniques that maximize the yields while using less water per yield amount.
That's funny 'cos I heard and read repeatedly that organic soil with lots of humus in it holds water much better than soil on conventional farms.
There's less run-off and it soaks in quicker. It also allows water to penetrate deeper to refill aquafers.
I also heard and read a few years back that everyones computers were going to stop working and all the nuclear missles were going to launch because they forgot to make computers clocks go past the year 2000.
I seem to remember reading a lot of things from so-called scientists and experts that say doom this and gloom that. But if we raise your taxes or spend more money on it then I'm sure our governmentr will save us. Just like carbon credits and cap and TRADE, as in the stock market. Just reading the intentions scream scam all over it.
Except to sheep who buy into this garbage and inslave the rest of us with this idiocy.
Its also the same environmentalists who gave you the platic bag that they are all bitching about. Why did they do that you ask? Because these same wackos went around scaring everyone that we were killing the habitat of the spotted owl due to deforestation from the logging industry.
Afrter 20+ years these same wackos are stunned, stunned i tells ya that the owl population is still in decline. Why you might ask? Well these same smart people finally figued out that it was being eaten by its cousin owl.
The sollution? KILL THE COUSIN OWL!! How Green of them. Whatever happened to letting nature take its course.
Of course you'll get a plastic bag but you have to pay a tax for it now. Just go buy a reusable bag that the govenment supports and gives green tax credits for choosing a government sponsored product. How facist of them.
Liberalism. They say they want to leave mother nature alone yet they behave in the most un-natural of ways of mother nature.
Also the same people cheering when the US started producing oil,
which was used to make kerosene for oil lamps,
which would save the whales.
LOL! No shit. Its these same idiots that were promoting maximizing crops to produce more with less so we could help feed the worlds poor becasue we can't let people suffer.
Now these same asshats are claiming that there are too many people on the planet so we have to undevelope developed nations and destroy underdeveloped/emerging nations.
Liberalism = Mental disorder.
Then again Liberalism is just Marxism. You just decide your level of involvement.
Suck up seawater, desalinate it, use it till the level drops then blame it on global warming, oh er I mean climate change. I'm sure some form of a tax on everyone will make it all okay in the long run. Carbon credits help us all, not just the guys trading them. Yeah right.
"Collapse, collapse...I remember getting a call from the U.C. Commander in Berkely... telling me they were not going to be able to contain The Fukushima thing... it was so bad, so much loss of life... I said maybe the smartest thing to do was to just pull it... and then they made that decision to pull the Great State of California, so they sent in the Geo Engineers and we watched it collapse."
Scary Silverstein, Monaco
zebrasquid: Meanwhile, we have a desalination plant that will be finished in a year or so, and plenty of water out in the Pacific to fuel it.
So glad to hear that, no bullshit. Go for it.
I don't think they will be able to ramp up de-sal sufficiently to irrigate the valley for agriculture. That part of the problem is what will impact everyone else the most. Most of the green veggies you eat are grown there, with your tomatoes, fruit, and a good bit of other produce.
Similarly, the dry cotton farms will die out in west Texas and most irrigation producing areas, of whatever sort and wherever located. We humans are too numerous, our crop needs too great, and our sense of entitlement so high that the end result will likely be rioting in the streets, demanding our "right to be fed."
Between energy stores diminishing and water stores falling even more dramatically, the chance for an early departure for most looks high. So, long on mortuaries and coffin makers!
Craig
I came back from Pennsylvania where it rained almost daily for the entire summer. Since I've been back to SoCal it rained once for a few minutes. I think it is supposed to be around 100 degrees again tomorrow. The lizards seem to like it here. I see a lot of them lately.
Esculent 69: Liberalism. They say they want to leave mother nature alone yet they behave in the most un-natural of ways of mother nature.
....and that's the funny thing about those greenies (watermelons) they want their cabin in the woods, they just don't want you to have your cabin in the woods.
I'd just throw out Algore manpig as an example. ever see his crib? "Earth in the Balance" indeed. That cocksucker needs to go suck on an exhaust pipe. Mr. Unicol...hahahahahahaha
How much damage does he do to the ecosystem flying around here and there?
Ever hear about telecommuting?
LOL.
Globalwarmingclimatechangeassholes.
Suck my ballsack.
The sheer arrogance that some people have to think that the fart in the wind that is mankind can adversly effect the earth.
The earth will be here billions of years after we've been gone.
We're ants that happen to walk upright.
Earth, use it or lose it. We will be replaced. Count on it. She will shake us off her back like fleas. Enjoy the ride while you can. She will endure, we will not. Big fucking deal.
That gurgle in your stomach that slid out and put a skid mark in your shorts? The burp yesterday after dinner?
That is mankind.
Duc888- Remember this gem from a while back. For those that are down voting your can eat shit. Just like this broad in the article. Look at those teeth. Fucking facists.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-face-authoritarian-environmenta...
So now 'liberals' are to blame for the drought in CA?
Some of the posters on ZH these days are downright mental midgets.
its liberal policies guided by their mindset that is infected with a virus that causes a disease that leads to the destruction of free societies.
And most of their complaints come from the results of their insane ideas.
The movie Idiocracy was made for a reason.
California Water Shortage Now “Critical”–What Could Be The Reason?
The left and their free-shit crowd will suck all of us dry - and not in a good way.
Maybe they can drink oil?