http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2015/04/30/an-ironic-drought-in-california-n1992114/page/full
The present four-year California drought is not novel -- even if
President Barack Obama and California Gov. Jerry Brown have blamed it on
man-made climate change.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
California droughts are both age-old and common. Predictable California dry
spells -- like those of 1929-34, 1976-77 and 1987-92 -- more likely result from
poorly understood but temporary changes in atmospheric pressures and ocean
temperatures.
What is new is that the state has never had 40 million residents during
a drought -- well over 10 million more than during the last dry spell in the
early 1990s. Much of the growth is due to massive and recent immigration.......Whatever one's view on immigration, it is ironic to encourage millions of newcomers
to settle in the state without first making commensurately liberal investments
for them in water supplies and infrastructure.
Sharp rises in population still would not have mattered much had state
authorities just followed their forbearers' advice to continually increase
water storage. Environmentalists counter that existing dams and reservoirs have already
tapped out the state's potential to transfer water from the wet areas, where 75
percent of the snow and rain fall, to the dry regions, where 75 percent of the
population prefers to reside.
But that analysis is incomplete......To Read More....
My Take - If this sort of thing had to
happen somewhere - I'm glad it's happening in California. If any state ever
deserved it - It's California. If any governor ever deserved this crisis - It's
Jerry Brown. This is the outcome of irrational, misanthropic and morally defective leftist/green thinking and policies. Policies activists want the whole world to adopt.
Is there anyone out there besides me that thinks that to be green or a leftist
is actually a diagnosis for insanity?
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