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Parts Of California Have Sunk Over A Foot In Eight Months Due To Drought
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
California Dreamin’ this is not.
Sounds pretty freakin’ terrifying actually. From Bloomberg:
Land in California’s central valley agricultural region sank more than a foot in just eight months in some places as residents and farmers pump more and more groundwater amid a record drought.
The ground near Corcoran, 173 miles (278 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, dropped about 1.6 inches every 30 days. One area in the Sacramento Valley was descending about half-an-inch per month, faster than previous measurements, according to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Water Resources. NASA completed the study by comparing satellite images of Earth’s surface over time.
“Groundwater levels are reaching record lows — up to 100 feet lower than previous records,” Mark Cowin, the department’s director, said in a statement. “As extensive groundwater pumping continues, the land is sinking more rapidly and this puts nearby infrastructure at greater risk of costly damage.”
Areas along the California Aqueduct — a system of canals and tunnels that ships water from the north to the south –– sank as much as 12.5 inches, with eight inches of that occurring in just four months of 2014, researchers found.
Get to work Mrs Yellen... print some more water...
Bernanke 'fixed' the world before!!
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This is nothing compared to the standards for journalism in the USA: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/entertainment/caitlyn-jenner-accident-inve...
Always thought CA would break off and float away into the sea. Now we know it's simply going to sink into the pits of Hell, which is fitting.
Calif and Florida break off and float away. NO big loss
According to Rep Hank ' El Guam-o' Johnson, Cali would, you know, capsize and sink into the Ocean because of all the Mexicano's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q
This is nothing that 20 million more illegal aliens in California can't fix in a jiffy, said President Obowel
California will sink into the ocean.
I am sorry for the ocean.
and if they can stick their leaf blowers down the well to make the water come out, it might work.
Alaska can come too....
Hey Bloppy...not so fast....you did see that the research came from NASA, right ?
NASA never a straight answer.
and no, I did not give you a down arrow, just sayin' I am skeptical of many things nasa.
i honestly don't know why you read cnn
I don't. I knew that I could be guaranteed a perfect example of my point on the front page of cnn.com and I was not disappointed.
Killer half-man-half-woman-half-it sell-liberties on the loose!
Next week, on the merits of tattooing your ding-dong.
Next week? Don't leave me hanging, so to speak.
Don't you worry, we'll get that smoke hangin' off yer lips right into the trash, for this week we expose the imminent danger of third-hand smoke, and the potential hazards of fourth-hand smoke.
I read the story to see what they would call it.
Sure enough, HIM.
Can't wait till it goes to jail. Court case to have it sent to a ladies prison.
pods
Wow, that sure adds another wrinkle to this...think 'he' did the sex change knowing 'he' was probably going to jail, so may as well make sure it's a woman's prison? 'He' apparently kept his ding-dong...free nookie, all the time? Hmmm...maybe 'he' is smarter than I thought...
And, mission accomplished. Now I'm writing about this dickhead, instead of paying attention to the article...and I don't even watch TV.
Justice would be more served if he went to a man's prison without protective custody but that isn't being sensitive to his needs I suppose. I shall slap my hand reproachfully.
Miffed;-)
You used the word "journalism" to describe the noiZ-media.
That funny.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
Journalism is true to form.
In my journal I write:
"I wake up, take a shit and then get out of bed."
That's the only truth you are going to get.
You shit in your bed and then get up?
Thanks for sharing, you New Age Guy, you.
It appears Jenner is guilty of two cases of manslaughter, one was the auto accident in California and the other is in his soul.
Importing more illegals will fix this.
Maybe, but you gotta bury a lot of them, and deeper than six feet.
Please don't soil the remaining groundwater there is left.
Miffed
Sooooo many keynesian opportunities!
An ocean full of water and not a drop to drink.. ( Not that you would want to )
...build a high speed railway!
THey built this railway already, but goes straight to hell with a one way ticket.
CA can't even build a high speed handbasket.
For the cost of that clusterfuck, they could build several desalination plants. But, who needs those. Salt makes the water taste so much better.
That may cause the earth to move under your feet. Can that trigger the long-awaited California earthquake, the big one?
How many more feet to fall to China as in the China Syndrome?
I was thinking the same thing.
ALso, Once the aquafier is compressed/shrinks, it will take eons to raise and saturate it again. You just don't pour water in and rises like a sponge. Take YEARRRRs.
The main water canal and subsidence areas parallel the San Andreas faultline. One extra big shake and the canal will give. What happens to Los Angeles and So. Cal with no water. What a clusterf---k. Between a 500 year drought, destroyed water system, and fukushima beaches real estate is going to be REAL alright, real cheap. Wish my sister had gotten out when I warned her 3 years ago.
Maybe California can buy all the Nestle water and pour it back in the ground?
/s
(had to add the sarc tag or they might actually try it)
pods
Let them drink unicorn piss...
I downrated you because sarcasm can no longer be tolerated on this issue.
I was thinking injecting some black plastic ball into the well would fix it. That or some Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
Jerry Brown will be out with another secret plan to win the war soon. El Nino might save their ass, but I wouldn't bet on it......
Actually the ground sink because farmers are pumping out lots of water. Get rid of farmers, problem solved
Euthanze useless eaters ..no farmers needed.
Yea totally, evil farmers producing food to live on....I know get rid of the loser tech freaks and that will solve a lot of problems...useless eaters
Hey, no getting rid of the techies.
They serve you with many kilo and mega bites. Feast on that shit, because thats all yo gonna get.
The you will starve...
Well said!
Only farmers can grow food?
As will the they.
Have the state sue every human being for expelling carbon dioxide whenever they breath.
But the extent of the problem and how much it will cost taxpayers to fix are part of the mystery of the state’s unfolding drought. No agency is tracking the sinking statewide, little public money has been put toward studying it and California allows agriculture businesses to keep crucial parts of their operations secret.
The cause is known: People are pulling unsustainable amounts of water out of underground aquifers, primarily for food production. With the water sucked out to irrigate crops, a practice that has accelerated during the drought, tens of thousands of square miles are deflating like a leaky air mattress, inch by inch.
https://www.revealnews.org/article/california-is-sinking-and-its-getting...
... mmm ... I'll have recite the MSM mantra and say, "Bullish!"
say that like yer prayin'
"But the extent of the problem and how much it will cost taxpayers to fix are part of the mystery of the state’s unfolding drought."
I bet you all noticed that slick little presumption. It's just a *given*. of course, that all costs should fall on taxpayers.
Blame the victim? Sheeit. Make the poor victim pay his robber's restitution costs while you're at it.
/s for anyone who needs it.
Indeed. CA needs a new bureaucracy to deal with this failure of the free market. Department of Sinkage.
40 years ago or so..Brazil gave cactus plants to the poor to plant so they could eat .....the leaves are edible.....might be an idea...they sell them in fancy grocery stores...but to a poor Brazilian..its survival food..
Only $9.99/lb at Prole Foods. "Eat local brah."
That's very common in Mexico. I've seen farms of Nopales growing in Northern Baja.
There appears to be a strengthening to the on going El Niño this year. It wouldn't surprise me to see news stories about flooding and mudslides in a few months.
Plus, the Nopalea plant has anti-inflamatory properties, so it should be an easy sell for the health conscious twits.
There's those shovel ready jobs Obungler talked about.
Here's what'll go down:
- The State will either enter a 5th year of drought, and for all intents & purposes, that will signal the $$$end of CA real estate, with other sectors of the economy rapidly in tow.
Or,
- Rains will come - and not stop...
That's sorta how it rolls when shit is already upside-down...
So, it's a) drought, or b) mudslides carrying away the last of their depleted topsoil...
Very true. With all the dead lawns I can already see the next big problem. The dirt is starting to makes it way to the streets storm drain system. When the floods come, all these "lawns" will go from normal water runoff to debris flow, clogging the storm drains. Engineers are starting to ask do you treat proposed landscaped areas as if they are going to be dirt for hydroloy calcs.
Mudslides are nature's top soil replenishment process. All that shit that burned in the previous summer, mixed with trace mineral, makes for fertile soil when washed out into the flood plains. Old depelted top soil is what gets washed away.
Humans don't like it because they are stupid enough to build in flood zones.
And then expect gov. handouts to rebuild because their ins. co. wouldn't give them coverage to build in a flood zone.
All residential flood coverage in the US is through the federal government by way of the National Flood Insurance Program. The insurance company that sells you the policy is merely the broker. It is more likely that the NFIP might not allow an insured to rebuild on the same grade. To be insurable again at the same location, there may be a requirement for an elevation of the new structure. Just ask the folks in southern Louisiana.
or...........................................
...we get a Maunder Minimum type interruption of the normal solar cycle (as John Casey predicts is coming..soon...like now...) and millions die (again as they did 1670 to 1710)...cept it'll be billions this time) due to cooler temps and continued draught.
Though an EMP could render that moot....
or the coming monetary system collaprse could...well it would not render it moot but there won't be many left to record the events...
cheers!!!
Nope, just AGW
So, how much more water do we need to pump to get CA fully under water?
Let's get started! I like the idea of a new flag with 49 stars.
I like even numbers. Lets make New York next.
Around here in the Central Valley, droughts are broken by floods. This winter we are expecting a strong El Nino so you might get your wish.
Please post more negative stories about California, we need to stem the tide of inlanders and foreign nationals coming in and driving up the cost of Real Estate out here.
Cost of real estate in Kalifornia? I sold my house out there a few years ago at a loss and moved way inland. The best move I ever made!
Thanks for doing your part!
If you could also tell everyone you know that the weather sucks and there is nothing to do out here that'd be great.
El Cap will be a little easier to climb this year....unless the Merced dries up and the whole of Yosemite comes down.
Beware the exfoliating granite.
Bernanke saved the World? Jeez, Gordon Brown thought it was Gordon Brown who was saviour of the World.
What a disappointment.
Actually it was me, but I am trying to be humble about it...
How ironic that there is a glut of oil and a shortage of water.
A glut of politicians and an acute shortage of leaders.
Plenty of water for frackers, though. Maybe their injections will help fill up some of those pockets that are going flat from too much pumping. Too bad we can't drink what they inject.
Maybe California should consider an incentive for CO2 fracking or added costs for traditional fracking. It is being done in Canada, the Bakken and here in East Texas. I'm told it is less predictable than water/sand fracking so more dangerous -- as in blowing pipe straight up out of the wellbore -- but that may be getting better by now. Might want to look into CO2 fracking and start nudging the drillers in that direction.
Maybe they should drink oil instead, problem solved. Just be careful lighting a cigarette...
Odd, that was the end game of Quantum of Solace!
All the lakes are brown ....
. . . . and the sky is blue .....
My home just this year
. . . . sunk a foot or 2 .....
We ain't got no aqua ....
. . . . but we wear tutus
California dreamin' ....
. . . . for just a drop or two.
bc AGW
Bernanke looks like a smug gargoyle.
But then, they all do as they age.
He does! He does look like a smug gargolye!
In fact, his head belongs on a rooftop overlooking Paris.
It's going down, baby. Like the stock market. Coincidence?
ok s/on
The incredible thing is that California pols still haven't learned anything. They plan to guard against future droughts by limiting consumption, not expanding supply.
They're sadists.
Californians why do you keep electing these clowns?
The incredible thing is that California pols still haven't learned anything. They plan to guard against future droughts by limiting consumption, not expanding supply.
They're sadists.
Californians why do you keep electing these clowns?
The latest idea to "expand supply" is really to divert fresh water out of the Sacramento River, tunnel under the whole delta, and send it down to the southern San Joaquin Valley where the governor's big donors live (Westland Water District, et al).
That is what the governor wants to spend money on. I'd rather conserve, thanks. If he and his friends get their way, the delta will turn into a mud flat and we will have salt water backing up inland rivers halfway to Sacramento and Stockton.
But the economics of extinction will be at work, and while entire counties are torn up, there will be plenty of jobs.
Let 'er sink. I'll drop a few crab traps in the drainage by my house. Cancel the high-speed rail, flood the central valley with seawater, and make designated hydrofoil and fan boat lanes all the way from Sacramento to Bakerfield.
Wont touch the obvious bait.
Buy food, water, and ammunition.
Brawndo to the rescue... it's just a matter of electrolytes.
Brawndo has what it take to make plants grow.
Its got electrolytes.
"Well I aint never seen no plants grow out of no toilets"
I wonder if it could all fall down instantly. That would be a real wakeup call.
More deflation.
.
As we all know, the one thing that can rescue California is the arrival of an El Nino, which tends to drive Pacific moisture into California in a series of rain dumping storms over fall and winter. Well, the massive record El Nino is now here, unless a major shift happens soon. But, due to unusual conditions in the North Pacific, there is a strong chance the Rain Events will be pushed south and miss much of California. This is due to the new jet stream conditions, caused by arctic melting, and the weather systems the new jet stream behavior locks in place.
The best source I have is saying that it is a crap shoot whether or not California gets the El Nino rains. He says in any case, the usual El Nino in which California get heavy rains, that type of El Nino is BY NO MEANS A LOCK this time around.
One massive el nino wont help after this monster drought.
That's cuz the ground turns hard as a rock after a while, and the storm water ends up running downhill into the ocean through the storm channels and drains. And those aquifers that they are rapidly draining in the central valley took hundreds of years to fill up.
I used to live down the street from one of those huge flood channels in the mountains north of downtown LA, built by the Army Corps of Engineers back in the 70s to prevent flooding. It's a sight to see, a zillion tons of water coming down out of the big mountains as its raining at two inches per hour. You can wave bye-bye as it heads down to Santa Monica Bay at about 60 mph.
MORE EL NINOS BC AGW SHEEPLE!
Published four days ago in Nature (You know the most prestigious scientific journal about... Nature):
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n9/full/nclimate2743.html This is what peer-reviewed scientific research looks likes. The front pages and abstracts are free:
ABSTRACT: The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant climate phenomenon affecting extreme weather conditions worldwide. Its response to greenhouse warming has challenged scientists for decades, despite model agreement on projected changes in mean state. Recent studies have provided new insights into the elusive links between changes in ENSO and in the mean state of the Pacific climate. The projected slow-down in Walker circulation is expected to weaken equatorial Pacific Ocean currents, boosting the occurrences of eastward-propagating warm surface anomalies that characterize observed extreme El Niño events. Accelerated equatorial Pacific warming, particularly in the east, is expected to induce extreme rainfall in the eastern equatorial Pacific and extreme equatorward swings of the Pacific convergence zones, both of which are features of extreme El Niño. The frequency of extreme La Niña is also expected to increase in response to more extreme El Niños, an accelerated maritime continent warming and surface-intensified ocean warming. ENSO-related catastrophic weather events are thus likely to occur more frequently with unabated greenhouse-gas emissions. But model biases and recent observed strengthening of the Walker circulation highlight the need for further testing as new models, observations and insights become available.
Oh wow! has much charts and graphs, too. Lern children!
I mean literally just search "peer-reviewed climate research" it's that easy!
Some troll needs to refute me! You can't let this peer-reviewed research stand! Lol "deniers" more like "dethinkers".
Any credible forecast for snow from the El Nino?
That's an impressive amount of water sucking to drop the ground a foot. That is how far past the "LIMIT" California has gone. Too many people and too much concentrated farming.
On the birght side, they're getting closer to the water table, so they might not have to keep drilling deeper if this picks up enough.
Why is BB's pasty bald face on here? Is he going to cure the drought with more QE?
His dissertaion was about how they should print into deflation. Deflating land...
duplicate
our current El Nino easily in the running for one of the top three strongest. And the warming there is expected to continue through at least October — possibly setting up conditions in which the 2014-2016 El Nino is the most intense and perhaps longest-running such event ever seen.
BC AGW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHEEEEEEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!
SEE EARLIER POST WITH RESEARCH THAT TOOK 20 SECONDS TO FIND!
Friday ZH beef jerky.
Yawn...wake me up when it sinks as far as China...
Is there a little blue pill for this? I doubt they will take the red one.
Bermonkey has that dreamy look on his face, like he is thinking "damm, I sure do miss all that pipe laying with that cute lil' monkey in the white house...
I hate, loathe and despise Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen and their like kinds. When will will we rid the world of these evil criminal puppets, those like them and their Richie Rich masters?
BC AGW! DUH! LERN CHILDREN!