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West Coast Is “On Track for Having the Worst Drought In 500 Years”

Sunday, February 2, 2014 17:03
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Is the West Coast In the Middle of a “Mega Drought”?

The Los Angeles Times reports:

“We are on track for having the worst drought in 500 years,” said B. Lynn Ingram, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

California droughts can last decades … or even centuries.  As the San Jose Mercury News points out:

Through studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence, researchers have documented multiple droughts in California that lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — compared to the mere three-year duration of the current dry spell. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years.

“We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.”

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Some scientists believe we are already in a megadrought, although that view is not universally accepted.

Bill Patzert, a research scientist and oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, says that the West is in a 20-year drought that began in 2000. He cites the fact that a phenomenon known as a “negative Pacific decadal oscillation” [not linked to climate change] is underway — and that historically has been linked to extreme high-pressure ridges that block storms.

We are not forecasting gloom and doom.  Hopefully, the West Coast will soon get enough rain to end the drought.

West Coast Is “On Track for Having the Worst Drought In 500 Years” was originally published on Washington’s Blog



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  • Kick out the ten million illegals and there’d be plenty of water for the citizens.

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    For 8 years, liberals called Bush the chiimp, so feel free to call obozo the same.

  • Native Indians have lived for 1000s of years through drought and Snow in North America…Its only when the elites showed up with us slaves aka whites and blacks that this has big such a big issue….

    Native Indians had a thriving society and culture for 1000s of years and they did alright…Don’t buy into propaganda and government dependency….learn how the native Indians lived self sufficiently with strong family bonding..which is exactly opposite of what America today is

    • Native Americans didn’t plants thousands of acres of cotton in the middle of deserts. They didn’t cover enormous swaths of agricultural land with cement. They had nothing, swo they could migrate to where there was water, although the Anasazi are one example of a whole peoples’ disappearance when water disappeared.

    • Freeamerican

      wrong isreali jacob. you jews like to beat down whites with your ‘indian’ crap lies. kennewick man. also jews brought the slaves. the reason for the drought is your jew tribe and chemtrails. JWO.

  • “We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years,” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.”

    I thought it was called California Dreaming. Sounds to me like you are over populated. You have exceeded the natural resourced to survive. As mother nature always takes care of her business and keep things in balance among species. HOWEVER…….

    How about you let Pelosi, Feinstein and Harry run through Legal Immigration and low and behold ADD Another million or so illegal Immigrants to your state and the drinking fountain and you should dry up your water supply and you all die.

    Sounds like a plan to me.

  • Sounds like a good plan to me too. Problem here starts in the title i think.

  • Freeamerican

    washington’s blog is psy ops. post a comment with a link on chemtrails or the jew world order or holohoax, see if it goes through.

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