“Scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say that California has had multiple droughts of 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — and two severe ‘megadroughts’ of 180 years and 240 years.”
Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News
The New York Times used to know this.
History Of Ancient Fires
Studying fire marks in giant sequoias, Thomas W. Swetnam and co-workers have discovered that major conflagrations sweeping across many mountain ranges in California and the Southwest were along a common feature, occurring at least twice a decade and apparently linked to oceanic currents much farther south.
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times
But as technology improved, the New York Times got stupider. They announced the California permanent drought in 2016, right before California’s wettest year on record.
California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times
Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED
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Read more at Real Climate Science
According to the activists’ dogma, it naturally follows that “Drought And Fire Are The New Normal Climate Of California” and climate change is to blame. After all, anything that is bad is caused by climate change.
By necessity climate activists ignore history because it undermines their cause. I lived in California during the 1970’s when there was a long draught. If memory serves me correctly it was seven years. Drought for California is normal, but it is the old normal.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone
They let paradise burn
And put up a lot of solar panels
They cut down millions of trees
And put up more solar panels
They taxed all the people
Billions of dollars but need more more more
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone
they let paradise burn
And put up a lot of wind turbines
destroyed the environment
with unreliable renewables
and want more more more
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone
they let paradise burn
and put in another parking lot
with charging stations
they double down on stupid
and still get elected.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone
I notice in the clipping: “Living on the edge” – followed by “Drawing water for irrigation…..” The creeks flowing down the east side of the Sierra’s are diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The water in Mono Lake is too salty to be use for irrigation. The New York Times got it wrong again. A bit further south – Owens Lake was a dust bowl – where once paddle-wheel steamers plied their trade. It took a court order on the L.A. Dept. of Water and Power to get some water back into the lake bed. Owens Valley had the “worst air” in the country at the time – mid 1990’s. So much for “All The News That’s Fit To Print” – then and now.