To: Brumar89 who wrote (999953 ) 2/12/2017 1:40:32 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to of 1586474 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. wuwt: the world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change