In 2008, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology announced a permanent drought.
This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au
Listening to these climate snake oil salesmen resulted in the 2011 flooding below the Wivenhoe Dam in Queensland. Government didn’t prepare for heavy rain, and people suffered directly from climate fraud.
The same story is playing out in California.
California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times
What is truly remarkable in California is that they had the same moron for governor 40 years ago, and he made exactly the same mistake.
TimesMachine: March 8, 1977 – NYTimes.com
A year later California was flooded.
11 Feb 1978, Page 1 – The Sheboygan Press
One thing has changed, though. Forty years ago they blamed the drought and flooding in California on global cooling instead of global warming.
Just as at Wivenhoe there will be an inquiry into what went wrong …….and surprise surprise in the face of all of the evidence no one will be held accountable for the mess.
When the report is released the spokesman will earnestly tell the assembled press conference that “lessons will be learnt”
See the comment at 2:05 by David W of OZ about what went on at Wivenhoe Dam.
David says
They expect the dam overflow to collapse…
..evacuating people below the dam now
http://www.chicoer.com/
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html
I love that picture of Gov Brown, looks like he’s trying to tune an AM radio station on his Radio Shack 200-in-one.
Thanks, pmc. Every single time I read this I scroll up to look at him and laugh. I snort a little, my nose starts running and my sense of smell improves.
YW, no need to scroll up.
I believe Edmond Brown was Jerry Brown’s (AKA Moonbeam) father.
I was going to bring up the same thing because I’ve seen this several times. Jerry is the idiot son of Edmund. Jake
The were both Edmund (and Pat and Jerry). Edmund Jr. (Jerry) was gov 1974 to 1983 and 2011 to present. Edmund Sr. (Pat) was gov 1959 to 1967.
Jerry has two brothers named Darrel (just kidding).
I lived in California when Moonbeam Senior, Pat Brown was Gov. Just outside San Francisco, I saw it snow a few flakes for awhile one winter afternoon.
It reminds me of when our tanks were rolling through Bagdad and the Iraqui Defense Minister was being interviewed and was saying that the city was completely safe from the attackers.
The libs look at the facts in the face and still deny it.
Michael Crichton showed the whole point of renaming the Global Warming extortion hoax Climate Change was to be able to blame anything that moved on corporate greed and a dearth of government coercion (without pesky thermometers giving it the lie). But my question is: are any of these dams right upstream from LA? I’m booked for a gig there soon and wondering whether to wear swim fins.
Bring an inflatable life raft…
That dam is way up north of Sacramento, which is itself a bit northeast of San Francisco. That area drains to San Francisco Bay.
However, any light mist in Southern California is treated like a biblical flood by drivers and traffic is unbelievably bad. So the concern is not flooding, but getting where you are going to in time.
Camping and fishing Wivenhoe is soo good, big redclaw, lots of bass and some huge forky tailed catfish live there.
Only electric motors, sails or paddles allowed keeps lots of people away so it is usually never crowded.
In 2007, Chief Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery made this bizarre claim while hyping the threat to Australia from global warming:
“Even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/flannery-says-it-again-the-dams-wont-fill/news-story/fc39cd244faba3e29b842e09e5b4dd5c
That lunacy by climate alarmists helped lead to Wivenhoe’s disaster, and the same type of thinking no doubt led managers of Oroville to hold too much water behind the dam.
…And he’s still wrong:
http://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm
click on “Real Time Data – Major Dams”
I guess he had to do something for all the money they paid him.
Chiefio has a lot of commenters with information. Evacuation has been called but National news is NOT COVERING!
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/dwr-briefing-on-the-oroville-dam/#comment-79290
Well, NY has snow. Try:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/
Seems that the worst is over for the moment. No more overflooding.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29411
Lake Oroville Webcam
When comparing Gov Brown with Baghdad Bob at least the lies of Baghdad Bob were very straightforward and eassilly detectable .
OT…. lol… who would have guessed.
EU countries looking after their own country. electricity needs before exporting
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/13/bloomberg-green-energy-prisoners-dilemma/
Only small minds find an inconsistency between droughts and floods ;)
OH, HO
Look who has his hand out for Federal cash!
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/02/12/california-governor-asks-president-trump-help/
Governor Moonbeam now has to negotiate his terms of surrender with President Trump.
‘All requests for a declaration by the President that an emergency exists shall be made by the Governor of the affected State.’ — 42 U.S. Code § 5191 – Procedure for declaration
Good article at the American Thinker about “demon coal”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/demon_coal.html
It’s just so much swamp gas….the left needs a giant enema, preferably in San Francisco Bay.