www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210506-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1620497315
“In news articles, Ingram has summarized the last 2,000 years of the climate history of the American West, emphasizing that the current drought is the worst to hit the region in 500 years. In addition, she makes the point that, especially over this 2,000-year period, the West has experienced megadroughts lasting decades, and megafloods which far surpass the famous 1861-62 flood that put Sacramento and the entire Central Valley of California under 10-20 feet of water for months. Shestates that the climate of the past 150 years or so is an anomaly, being one of the mildest and wettest on record, and that soon or later, per-haps now, California will return to the mega-droughts interspersed with megafloods pat-tern that characterized the region for millennia.”
From the book review: “Are We Controlled by the Whims of Nature, or Will We Create Our Future?”
A Note To Readers
Due to scheduling, this week’s report is a day late and very brief.
Of course the drought, or mega-drought that we are in the midst of is the focus, and the entire article, the final item in this report, from National Geographic presents it fairly well, despite the usual “its global warming” theme developed in it. While the climate is changing, and apparently warming, the claim it is caused by mankind is bogus.
Also in this report:
We cannot leave out the U.S. Drought Monitor, and we include the national map and two California maps– one from a year ago and this week’s. Please note that most of the west, that is, west of the Mississippi River is affected by drought.
For those who missed it, I include some excerpts and a link to my article of a few days ago, “The California Water System and the Drought Crisis.”
Eight years ago a book was published that included the statement that the past 150 years has been the wettest period in the past 1200 years. And perhaps now we are returning to the previous characteristic climate of alternating mega-droughts and mega-floods. My review of the book, “The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow” is below with some excerpts from the review.
We shall return next week to our regular program, so please stand by.
