by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20211104-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1636221317
“Or, as Lyndon LaRouche put it in his masterful 2005 study of ending Globalization: ‘The problem here is not competently understood within the bounds of what is customarily conceived to be ‘economics’ as such, but, rather, as I shall now show, this problem must be seen as the task to be accomplished by freeing the mind from imprisonment within the wild-eyed incompetence with which the meaning of the term ‘economics’ is usually misunderstood by the presently reigning generation.’”
From: “Smash Globalization! What Are We Protecting When We Protect Our Industries?” on page 14,
A Note to Readers
The COP 26 climate extravaganza is underway in Glasgow, Scotland now, and all the royalty of Europe, the billionaires from the U.S., the Biden team, plus the leaders of many nations are gathered to celebrate once again their plan for returning humanity to feudalism. But, someone is missing, and that is the leaders of Russia, China and others. India has also thrown a monkey wrench into the failing celebration, saying that eliminating poverty is a more important goal than shutting down its coal-fired electricity generators.
The Feature this week has three articles on: The COP26 conference, the election held Tuesday in the U.S., and one that argues why we must re-industrialize the U.S. economy. Some readers of this report have asked for more politics, and the Feature gives you that.
Our video this week follows this introduction: “Why Climate Models Fail—The Truth About Climate Change.”
The rest of this report:
The “bomb cyclone” did dump a lot of water on the state last week, and that is seen in the rising levels of water in the reservoirs. Yet, the reservoirs remain at a record low level. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows almost no change in the extent or the intensity of the western drought. We begin this section with the Drought Monitor, followed by several reports on the reservoirs.
Of course, the storms had no impact on the Colorado River megadrought and the Stage One Emergency declared by the Bureau of Reclamation for cutting Arizona’s allocation from the river by 20% next year still holds. Under the title, “On the Colorado River” has an article on that.
Next we have more coverage of The Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022 initiative. And my reservations about that attempt to put it on the ballot for next year remain. And I add a new one here. No significant water project since the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913 has been built without the participation of the federal government. Of course, the Central Valley Project was begun and completed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. And the California State Water Project had the cooperation of the federal government. Even the Carlsbad water desalination project is really a partial realization of the push for desalination by President John Kennedy 60 years ago.
Be that as it may, since the initiative has broad support from the water districts and about 25 members of the state legislature, both Democrat and Republican, we will have continued coverage of it in these reports.
Again, California’s insane energy policy has brought the state to what Newsom and crew believe is a “regressive” moment, as it has become necessary to expand the use of natural gas to keep the lights on.
Throwing such insanity back in their faces, the President of Uganda, Yoweri K. Museveni contributes this, “ Letting us use reliable energy doesn’t mean a climate disaster.”
