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To: Brumar89 who wrote (999953)2/12/2017 1:40:32 PM
From: Brumar89   of 1575955
 
In California, ‘children just aren’t going to know what drought is’
Anthony Watts / 1 day ago February 10, 2017

Long-time WUWT readers will recognize the title as being a spoof on the infamous line about snow uttered by Dr. David Viner of the University of East Anglia some years ago in the Independent (now deleted, but preserved here) where he claimed in an article Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past by Charles Onians:

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

Less than a year ago, the New York Times claimed in a headline: California Braces for Unending Drought and the phrase “permanent drought” was in use in the media.

Wired claimed: Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever The Sacramento Bee wailed: Opinion: What if California’s drought is permanent? Over at Salon, where they know better than everybody about everything, they claimed: “It could last decades”: 5 shocking facts about California’s drought

Now we have headlines like: Drenched: How L.A. went from bone-dry to 216% of normal rainfall in four months

The drought map, is shrinking compared to a year ago. Only 11 percent of California remains in severe drought, less than 1 percent of California now in ‘extreme’ drought, and most of Northern California is drought free:





Source: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA

According to the California Dept. of Water Resources, 8 of 10 major reservoirs are above the 100% mark for historical averages:



Source: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf

And much of the USA is drought free now:



When less than two years ago, NYT said:

Droughts appear to be intensifying over much of the West and Southwest as a result of global warming. Over the past decade, droughts in some regions have rivaled the epic dry spells of the 1930s and 1950s.

Looks like the doomsayers were wrong…again.

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