AND THE WORST COULD BE YET TO COME …
By FITSNEWS || California is in the third year of a mega-drought that has left 82 percent of the state facing the most extreme dry conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The state’s major reservoirs are at less than 50 percent capacity, and downtown Los Angeles is drier than it’s been since records first started being kept in 1877.
Worst of all? There doesn’t seem to be any relief in sight anytime soon … as the extreme dry conditions are likely to continue into 2015.
The drought is hurting California farmers and driving up food prices. Wells are running dry. Certain communities have less than a month of water remaining – and this is after statewide water regulations have been in place for months.
Researchers say the drought has already caused the “greatest absolute reduction in water availability for California agriculture ever seen.”
Wanna see the frightening evolution of this drought? Here’s a progression of 196 maps published by The Los Angeles Times.
Then there’s this progression of satellite images released by NASA …
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(Pic: NASA)
Wow …
What’s especially troubling about the NASA photos? They show the depletion of the state’s groundwater supply – which is being increasingly tapped by farmers to compensate for the ongoing decline in surface water.
According to a recently published UC Davis study, that may be good in the short-term – but it’s going to hurt the state’s ability to withstand future droughts (as groundwater isn’t as quickly or easily replenished as surface water).
For those of you keeping score at home, the drought has already cost the California economy $2.2 billion this year.
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A perfect example of what happens to supply when there are price distortions in its market due to government interference.
Water should have been far more expensive for a long time in much of California.
Actually, you are correct about the g’ment manipulation of water markets, supply and demand … Driven by misguided central planning and political expediencies and greed, the taxsuckers
“It’s Chinatown, Jake … “
The answer to everything is to make the rich richer… oh, and more guns.
Making them poor isn’t going to help. I prefer a system which uplifts the poor, rather than stamping down the rich.
Stamping down the rich suits me just fine.
Degradation has worked so well in history, how?
Tzars, kings, and dictators… you like that shit, bitch?
Btw, that wasn’t me(Egalitarian)….I think he was trying to “help”.
Anyway, you’ll never get the boot on the rich short of a blood revolution, and then pretty much everyone loses.
You’re asking corrupt pols to put said boot on their patrons…never gonna happen.
All that’s aside “who” should be ruling “us”, the common man…I’d prefer no one personally.
I’m ready to staff the re-education camps.
The more money you have – the more power you have. Power is good for only one thing – to rule.
Oh come on now. We all need money, it’s not just “good for only one thing”…lol…hell, it’s money…it’s good for a lot of things.
Girl Scout cookies, blow, hookers dressed like Girl Scouts, etc. et al
Short of a rich person buying an army to fuck us all up and make us slaves, which seems doubtful to me for a variety of reaons, money is generally a good thing, as long as it’s not used to hurt other people.
Yes we should sell the Nations water supply to the highest bidder. Corporate American can solve the problem, and they can be trusted to do it fairly.
“Yes we should sell the Nations water supply to the highest bidder. ”
Yes, that’s just how it work in Walmart with TV’s. You go in, and bid with other customers for TV’s.
Moron.
You can’t drink a TV.
Moron.
lol, nice non sequitur.
Moron.
:)
MEGA-DROUGHT ROCKS CALIFORNIA
TBG saw them at Myskyn’s in the early ’90s before they hit the bigtime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUsWxOZolVQ
Will, so now you follow the weather I guess. Let me let you in on a little secret, Cali if going to get rain this winter. They will be fine. Just like their was a drought in the South West that is no more. That is the amazing thing about weather, if you don;t like it, just wait and it will change.
Co-inky-dinkily our US Air Force has been spraying chemicals in massive amounts up and down the Pacific coast for just about three years. The military air refueling tankers are doing this as some misguided attempt to retard global warming as asked for by the Taxifornia congress critters … and to increase aviator stick time so they can get aviation jobs after their tours … and to get airframe time on the 400 or so military tankers so the can be upgraded by Boeing, et al, at taxpayer expense.
You tinfoil hat awaits, sir…
Your tin foil hat won’t work unless it is grounded.
IMO … There may be a connection
JFK was planning to defund the nascent Chemtrails program….
lol…don’t encourage him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkf95onRgcc
California has been in a drought forever, if not for the diversion of water it would be a waist land.
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/01/medical-marijuana-farms_n_5427374.html&sa=U&ei=aGI0VICMLtOrggS584AY&ved=0CBkQFjAE&usg=AFQjCNEjOZNp2DsrLlHrzBmYKDBwPwu0Dg
I thought it was God punishing the queers.
Montezuma’s revenge.
What’s God punishing Texas for?
Massive fires a few years ago (with Gov. Oops demanding more and more federal help)…
Symptomatic Ebola on the streets of Dallas because the doctors at a Christian hospital can’t/won’t read the charts when they are pretending to diagnose patients (Gov. Oops blaming the feds for the failures at the Christian hospital…
Is God trying to teach Texas some humility…and, they just won’t learn.
That’s a good point. I recall from that old sitcom Soap that they don’t have queers in Texas.
lol. And Baptist Hospital in Downtown columbia is a “christian hospital” too I suppose?
“What’s God punishing Texas for?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFSdj1J5Vw
This drought could be the beginning of a megadrought. They can last 10-20 years or more. Now from my intuition: with the ground water disappearing, a major 7.0 earthquake is imminent. It happened during the last severe drought in 1857(7.9), 1872(7.3), and 1892(7.2). You heard here first.
… add in the Coming Ice Age, the rising (or sinking) ocean levels, the incoming astroids, the change of sides in DC …
Fear mongering is so easy now, with the Internet and blogs.
BTW: NASA reports yesterday that the oceans are NOT being influenced by the Global Worms. … “Never in History has raising taxes changed the weather.”
The drought severity graphic coincides with 7.0 earthquakes. Since all we have to go on is tree rings to measure ancient droughts and living fucking memory for 150 year old earthquakes, I am closer to predicting this will happen than you are making it to the bathroom to puke up that swill you call beer.
California – fondly called Shake & Bake by the folks who live there – leads the nation – things happen there first and then fan out across the nation.
Is the stage set for abortion showdown?
Conservatives, including those on the Fifth Circuit, are increasingly confident that Anthony Kennedy’s position on abortion has evolved enough that he’s finally on board with a substantial rewrite of current abortion law.
?? … and which law is that? Which state(s)?
I don’t care as long as it doesn’t raise my taxes … and keep your g’ment hands outta my wife’s pants.
?? … and which law is that? Which state(s)?
I don’t care as long as it doesn’t raise my taxes … and keep your g’ment hands outta my wife’s pants.
Nobody cares about that, what are the Kardashians doing today?
Since Climate change will cause extreme droughts in Texas and california, while increasing rain in the Southeast, and since nobody wants to live in the NE anymore, there’s a strong chance that South Carolina will be booming the next 100 years-as long as we keep driving our cars and running our A/C as much as we can.
Increase the logging too and ramp up the cow farts!
The brewers are moving to the South slope in droves. By their own admission, they are being forced to limit water withdrawals and it threatens their very existence in Ca.. Craft brewers are a creative way to obtain water withdrawal rights and in 20 years you will have to purchase drinking water in containers – it will be privatized. Unless, that is, you want your drinking water to taste like the drinking water in places like Clemson, Pendleton and Anderson. Craft brewers will be bought by the likes of InBev who will control drinking water.
Frost here = peach prices rally.
Drought California = citrus, grapes, wine rally
Drought Midwest, Southeast = beef prices rally
Flooding coastal states = shrimp prices rally
I hear they are out there but I’ve never met a poor farmer.
LOL……
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-jihadists-are-using-water-as-a-weapon-in-iraq/2014/10/06/aead6792-79ec-4c7c-8f2f-fd7b95765d09_story.html
….looks like WIl Folks is using a drought story to “whiff time for SCOTT, GRAHAM and CLYBURN”…..!!
Folks is using a water story as a weapon on his actual READERS……and they don’t even realize it………..
Drought has cost 2.2 billion? How much are mass desalinization plants like is used in Tampa, Fl?
South Carolina has no comprehensive water resources planning or even deep knowledge in that area, not even a plan to remedy either, beyond in name only. In name only it has some dibs and dabs, but even there not much.
This would solve it.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/megastorms-could-down-massive-portions-of-california/