California’ ‘experts’ have been wasting money on bullet-trains and solar farms, when they should have been building desalinization plants. But how could they know? The science and computer models the liberals in politics, the education establishment, and media insist are gospel contradict themselves if they don’t just get it wrong…
So some climate models say that daily precipitation intensity (in California) will increase and others say it will decrease. In other words, the climate science community is clueless about what the future might bring for west coast precipitation.
Some might say that climatologists for the State of California and other west coast states have been hampered by climate science. It’s tough to make recommendations to state and local governments for long-term planning when the climate science community provides them with nothing to work with.
Is California prepared for a drought that lasts multiple decades or even centuries?
The history suggests that this is very possible, and just as likely, and the obvious answer to the question is, Hell no!
(A) paleoclimatological study of West Coast drought that showed past droughts have lasted for hundreds of years. For the original graph and discussion, see Figure 10 of Cook et al. (2007) North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences.
It was drier for longer, long before modern man, the SUV, or Al ‘Frikkin’ Gore. And even if you don’t care about that, because you’re into the global warming scam for it’s actual purpose (socialized central planning and control of all energy production and consumption by government) California still needs to address the problem of droughts. Or is that high-speed-rail boondoggle actually going to help speed people out of a state as poorly managed as California?
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