http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170105-California-Drought-Update.pdf
Two more weeks and “the one” will be gone. The new President, Donald Trump, like President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, has stated that his first “100 Days” shall define a new direction for the nation. Following the U.S. Drought Monitor and the Reservoir Conditions graph, and coming from, for some, a surprising source, China’s Peoples’ Daily Online presents some excellent advice to President-elect Trump on how to finance and build the infrastructure he has championed.
Our feature this week elaborates on Law #3 of Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws, developing further the excellent advice from China, and demonstrating that it is only by President Trump’s adoption of a Hamiltonian banking and credit policy can his pledge to rebuild America’s infrastructure actually be met.
Are we now coming out of the most serious drought California has experienced since records have been kept for more than 120 years? The short answer is, “that remains to be seen.” But, with a series of atmospheric rivers slamming into the state this week and into next week, threatening severe flooding, perhaps it is time to recall to peoples’ minds that the predominant climate of the state for the past several thousand years is one of alternating mega-droughts and mega-floods– droughts lasting a century and floods that turned the Central Valley into a lake. Have we, as the question was asked a couple of years ago, returned to the “normal” climate for this region? To examine this question in more detail, here is my review of the book “The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow,” by B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam. http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2014/eirv41n19-20140509/48-52_4119.pdf
Here is a link to a Scientific American article by Ms. Ingram on the 1862 mega-flood:
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 put central and southern California underwater for up to six months, and it could happen again
By B. Lynn Ingram on January 1, 2013
Following some coverage of the weather, this week’s report follows up on several ongoing battles. Those include the Substitute Environmental Plan that would require water users to leave significantly more water in the San Joaquin River and its tributaries, and the Delta Tunnels plan, which has taken “a step forward,” and also received a push from the federal government. While Obama gave Brown a gift here, he stabbed him in the back on his rail project. I guess Obama’s “Salt the Earth” policy these last few weeks even takes out some of his friends.
