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California’s ‘permanent drought’ is now washed away by reality
Anthony Watts / March 11, 2019
watermelons would love to sacrifice watts to their volcano god ..al gore
From the “children just won’t know what drought is” department.
A few years ago, some genius politicians, spurred on by some equally genius “climate scientists” told the citizens of California that we were now in a “permanent drought” situation. Of course, the NYT bought this drivel, and made it a headline.
We here at WUWT called bullshit on it, and now we can say “told you so” with impudence. A mere 1% of the entire state of California is now in a drought situation, according the the U.S. Drought Monitor website.
Just compare the previous first weeks of March:
California maps here: United States Drought Monitor > Current Map > State Drought Monitor
CA Of course, we’ll still have shrill fools that will screech “climate change!” the next time the soil gets a bit dry, but for those people, there’s this lesson in California climate history:
From 2014, spot the portion caused by “man-made climate change”:
California’s ‘permanent drought’ is now washed away by reality
Anthony Watts / March 11, 2019
watermelons would love to sacrifice watts to their volcano god ..al gore
From the “children just won’t know what drought is” department.
A few years ago, some genius politicians, spurred on by some equally genius “climate scientists” told the citizens of California that we were now in a “permanent drought” situation. Of course, the NYT bought this drivel, and made it a headline.
We here at WUWT called bullshit on it, and now we can say “told you so” with impudence. A mere 1% of the entire state of California is now in a drought situation, according the the U.S. Drought Monitor website.
Just compare the previous first weeks of March:
California maps here: United States Drought Monitor > Current Map > State Drought Monitor
CA Of course, we’ll still have shrill fools that will screech “climate change!” the next time the soil gets a bit dry, but for those people, there’s this lesson in California climate history:
From 2014, spot the portion caused by “man-made climate change”:
California’s ‘permanent drought’ is now washed away by reality