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Remember when this winter started with good rains in.the west all these articles by climate "scientists" and globahomo agitprop "news" corporations about how this will be a dry winter for the drought stricken west despite initial rains.
Reservoirs should be full to the brim but I'm sure politicians made sure there is enough drainage and poor planning
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mell saysRemember when this winter started with good rains in.the west all these articles by climate "scientists" and globahomo agitprop "news" corporations about how this will be a dry winter for the drought stricken west despite initial rains.
No, I don't remember. It DOES match my own expectations having lived in the LA area for over 50 years. A wet fall, as in lots of rain before or around halloween, often DOES lead into a dryer than normal winter and spring.
mell saysReservoirs should be full to the brim but I'm sure politicians made sure there is enough drainage and poor planning
This was talked about in the media over the last week. Snowpack in parts of the Sierras is 200% of normal for the date, which is GREAT NEWS for this spring and early summer's water needs. As for reservoirs and more importantly aquifers getting refilled and recharged...
Stop believing the leftoid media propaganda and start believing your own senses and common sense.
Building more reservoirs would be helpful, but you seem to be missing the point that even in the wettest years, we can't fill the ones we have.
mell saysStop believing the leftoid media propaganda and start believing your own senses and common sense.
I am. I provided a link to regularly updated info about ALL of California's major reservoirs and asked people to show what's wrong THERE with the way reservoirs are getting managed.
You came back with an advertorial/propaganda piece masquerating as a news article that cherry picks a few metrics to make a particular point.
Building more reservoirs would be helpful, but you seem to be missing the point that even in the wettest years, we can't fill the ones we have. Even if we DID fill all the above-ground reservoirs to capacity (and it's not a simple matter of "let less out"), this doesn't show the whole water picture. This doesn't show underground aquifer volume. It also suggests all non-impounded water is wasted when released for "environmental" purposes. It doesn't men...
I heard about the story about fish and the rainwater going out to sea.
Someone sued the state over a little fish called a topsmelt, that they had to divert water down the river and less to the valley so the topsmelt would thrive.
Nobody eats them or fishes for topsmelt as far as I know.
Nobody eats them or fishes for topsmelt as far as I know.
he author Lomborg makes very good arguments that the environment has actually been getting much better
nor have we built sufficient, possibly portable (sure Eln has some ideas) reservoirs,
Earth could be a utopia for thousands of generations to come with population numbers stable in the millions. Instead we're gonna rat-utopia our way into an almost unfixable oblivion in another 1-3 generations, sadly. That's one reason I elected not to have children myself.
mell saysStop believing the leftoid media propaganda and start believing your own senses and common sense.
I am. I provided a link to regularly updated info about ALL of California's major reservoirs and asked people to show what's wrong THERE with the way reservoirs are getting managed.
You came back with an advertorial/propaganda piece masquerading as a news article that cherry picks a few metrics to make a particular point.
I think I agree with Automan Empire.
A vast population doesn’t improve anything, and I keep seeing too much development and crowding in the places where I liked to live.
I dunno. I read a book called "The Skeptical Environmentalist" maybe 15 years ago. The author Lomborg makes very good arguments that the environment has actually been getting much better for decades now, pretty much our whole lives.
mell saysnor have we built sufficient, possibly portable (sure Eln has some ideas) reservoirs,
Americans currently use the ENTIRE flow of the Colorado River. We grudgingly dole out just enough to Mexico to meet old treaties. A planned pulse flow allowed the Colorado River to flow all the way to the sea ONE TIME in 2014, a sight residents hadn't seen for literally decades. There's literally not enough water falling on its entire watershed to keep Lake Powell full and the mighty Colorado flowing all the way to the ocean.
California's rivers are approaching this too, hence the suits over what people dismiss as trivial things like the smelt. Humans are already taking so much water out of rivers all down the coast that it affects the salinity of large coastal features like bays and estuaries, and is causing seawater intrusion into coastal freshwater aquifers also feeding human demand.
Onvacation I don’t get your attempt at humor.
So you like crowds but wish me harm, interesting.
I post from boredom but I don’t troll here.
And the reason why we need to waster perfectly good potable water by dumping into the ocean is?
Onvacation I don’t get your attempt at humor.
Reservoirs should be full to the brim but I'm sure politicians made sure there is enough drainage and poor planning so they can keep promoting state of emergencies and fuck over their constituents.
It appears he literally can't imagine someone rationally not agreeing with his existing worldview, so he has to invent a twisted caricature of those who disagree as "mindless Biden voters" then get pissy when people don't even respond because he's so far off in the weeds from their actual views.
Humanity can't simply reservoir our way out of this. If there was a PLACE to build another Lake Oroville, it wouldn't catch enough storm pulse to make a difference in summer-fall water demand, and there doesn't appear to be enough water being released from the dam to have both a healthy Sacramento river year round and also millions of acre-feet of impounded water.
It's YOUR fault that you're "misunderstood" - you want to be misunderstood, rather than just explaining your position and viewpoint.
richwicks saysIt's YOUR fault that you're "misunderstood" - you want to be misunderstood, rather than just explaining your position and viewpoint.
My problem is I HAVE explained my viewpoint.
I can understand his frustration with you, but I don't understand why he continues to interact with you. In my opinion, it's a waste of time.
My problem is I HAVE explained my viewpoint
These are classic bullying techniques. In person we could sort it quickly. Online I can't be arsed and will sooner disengage from or completely leave a community that tolerates bullies and demagogues in their midst. I expected better of YOU, Richwicks, than to act like a burned out teacher who can't be arsed to sort out a real conflict between her charges, so punishes the victim and bully alike which the bully relishes as a win state and the victim adopts a rightful "fuck this shit I'm out" mentality toward the entire space.
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