“Climate Change is real. California Republicans believe it and are working to address it.”
– John Kasich and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Five years ago the New York Times and Governor Jerry Brown announced the California Permanent Drought.
California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times
Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED
A few months later, California was deal with historic flooding.
NWS: Northern California now on pace for ‘wettest water year on record’ – SFGate
There has been no trend in California precipitation over the last 125 years.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Long term, droughts have become much less common and severe.
Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News
Thirty years ago, the New York Times knew that the 20th century was unusually wet in California, and that the Medieval Warm Period was global.
“Lisa J. Graumlich, who examines the ring patterns of foxtail pine trees and western junipers in the Sierra Nevada, has compiled a detailed record of the year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation over the last thousand years.
She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period, a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age, a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450 to 1850. A Crucial Question
“We can now see that these were global climate phenomena, not regional temperature variations,” she said. “The question is, how did we get those warmer temperatures during pre-industrial times, and what can we learn from those conditions about what is going on today?”
Western landscapes in presettlement era were very smoky places.
Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times
Sixty years ago, the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics almost had to be cancelled because of a lack of snow.
09 Feb 1960, Page 1 – The Berkshire Eagle at Newspapers.com
And in 1932, the Lake Placid Winter Olympics almost had to be cancelled because of a lack of snow.
16 Jan 1932, Page 1 – The Los Angeles Times
But no shortage of snow now – we are expecting another couple of feet here in Cheyenne, Wyoming this week.
Tony,
Your last sentence about snow in Cheyenne is obviously incorrect.
BECAUSE that wisest of wise men, Al Gore, told us many years ago that snow would cease to occur about a decade ago.
So you and your snow shovel are imagining things.
The fascism behind all the dogooder nonsense
was so well known to the public 4 decades ago
that even the punks(who aren’t even close to the political middle and for sure not the right)knew about their real political intentions
and wrote the song California Über Alles in 1981.
A song explicitly about Jerry Brown and the policies of californias Paul Ehrlich. A guy who is so obsessesed to save humanity that
he keeps using the same life saving policies,tactics and arguements of the global cooling era for the global warming nonsense.
Now that Republicans like Schwarzenegger and Kasich are “embracing” the climate change cult/religion as fervently as Democrats, I’d like to ask both of these guys what the difference is between them and Democrats. What exactly would they say that shows they’re different? Old-guard Republicans like these two are every bit as globalist, woke, hysterical, and corporatist as any radical Democrat. Ironically, they’re trying to get more support for the Republicans by morphing into Democrats.
When is California going to rename Squaw Valley?
May I suggest “That Depression of Indigenous Womxyn”? Or,perhaps ” Gavin’s Gulch”?
You neglected to mention the real reason people are leaving California (not due to taxes, homelessness, rampant drug use, excess regulation, traffic, etc.)–the rapidly rising seas.
As is shown/validated here (https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=9414750), the Bay Area is on track to being completely underwater by 2100 due to an anticipated 2.7 inches–yes, inches–of incremental rise. Terrifying, and likely thousands are already dying every day under the inundation.
The other flood risk–potentially affecting the whole country–comes from an unprecedented level of hyperbole and intellectual conformity (as shown by your Twitter buddy G.K.).
The second risk is certainly more viable than the first.
Actually, the entire state is already underwater. The cause? Red ink flooding out of Sacremento.