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california has never had a bad drought before the use of fossil fuels. NEVER.
fucking idiots. climate change is the last, best hope for leftist whackadoos to use authoritarianism to control/limit the behavior and growth of others. "suburban sprawl" as a dirty word - holy shit that is so fucking stupid. the democrats are digging their own graves with this forced urban high density crap.
here's the cherry - it's perfectly OK for the rich to do whatever they want.
Indiana Jones
2015 Oct 29, 10:15pm
Here is an article from 1994 about mega-droughts in California's history about 1100 years ago.
BEGINNING about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six-year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time, new studies of past climates show. The findings suggest, in fact, that relatively wet periods like the 20th century have been the exception rather than the rule in California for at least the last 3,500 years, and that mega-droughts are likely to recur...
.... "The assumption they've made for a long time -- that California is subject to droughts of a maximum of seven years -- could be harmful in the long run," he said, because "they have doled out water on that assumption.
"This could be destructive if you get hit with a 9th or a 10th or a 15th year of severe drought."
yet it's middle class people and their darn pesky suburban lifestyles that are the root of all evil. their crossovers and baby diapers are causing climate change!
So how many people were using water during the many year droughts in California?
Think I'll find the CA. population,now.
It doesn't matter the length of the drought.It's the number of people it affects.
yeah, colonize another planet - or - just build a fucking desal plant.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2015 Oct 30, 8:41am
^^^^^what he said. Plus there's a monstrous underground water table in the Great Basin that basically has been untouched forever.
turtledove
2015 Oct 30, 9:10am
yet it's middle class people and their darn pesky suburban lifestyles that are the root of all evil. their crossovers and baby diapers are causing climate change!
Since they make up the majority, you have to get them to believe they are the cause or how else will you get them to pay their climate change taxes?
Shaman
2015 Oct 30, 10:11am
Climate change policies are usually nothing more than outright theft from the people who can afford it least, disguised as righteous action for "the good of the planet."
I have still to see any proposal that would make the slightest difference in global temperatures.
CALIFORNIA’S over, everything I love about this place is going to hell.
I knew there was something familiar about this thought from the moment it occurred to me in Yosemite National Park. My sister and I started going to those mountains 40 years ago with our parents, who taught us to see the Sierra Nevada as a never-changing sanctuary in a California increasingly overrun by suburban sprawl.
Once we had our own families, we indoctrinated our kids in the same joys: suffering under backpacks, drinking snowmelt from creeks, jumping into (and quickly back out of) icy lakes, and napping in wildflower meadows. Yosemite remains my personal paradise, but the impact of drought and climate change has become overwhelming — smoky air from fires, shriveled glaciers leaving creeks dry and meadows gray, no wildflowers.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/my-dark-california-dream.html?referer=https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/new/?count=25&after=t3_3qdnvt&_r=2