(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231207-California-Wate-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
Will begin with a news flash from today:
“Golden State no more? California budget deficit balloons to $68 billion;2022 23 revenue will be $26 billion below budget estimates
“By John Woolfolk | jwoolfolk@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group/ December 7, 2023
“In a brutal December surprise, California faces a $68 billion budget deficit, the state’s Legislative Analyst reported Thursday, blaming a severe drop in tax revenues in the current 2022 23 fiscal year.
“Potential spending cuts to education and other programs and dipping into the state’s piggy bank of billions of dollars in reserves are likely on the way. New taxes also could be on the table.”
Well, there goes Governor Newsom’s presidential ambitions.
Our Feature this week focuses on this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28). With almost 100,000 people attending the conference held in Dubai, the airport was filled with private jets that brought the elite of the climate change warriors to this ritual of hysterics. The complete banning of fossil fuels in the next one or two decades was the major topic, and, ironically, the President of COP 28 from the podium said, such a demand was absurd and would return civilization to the stone age.
Two articles are included in the report: The first is by my associate Robert Ingraham, “COP28: The Coming Fall Of Babylon.”
The second, in which I provide just a few opening paragraphs is from Michael Schellenberger, “Why John Kerry Would Force Poor People To Burn Wood And Dung.”
In addition, at the end of the report is an interview with Shellenberger with Tucker Carlson.
The rest of the report:
The U.S. Drought Monitor for California shows little change this past week, and the state remains largely without drought.
Under the broad title, “California’s Water Supply and New Infrastructure,” the state is preparing for a potential dry period ahead, and the Water Board announced a piddly 10% allocation of water to the cities and farms of the state. That is the case even though the reservoirs are now full.
In addition two articles on water and energy infrastructure complete that section: “The $1BN Megaproject to Save California,” and “Ringside View: The Case for Nuclear Power.”
Next is, “Billionaires’ utopia CEO defiant in face of loud calls to drop lawsuit against Solano County property owners.” Continuing the saga of the sick billionaires attempting to take over Solano County.
Then two articles on the problems the solar and wind industries are now coping with. I am sure some readers will be both amused and experience a certain Schadenfreude.
On the Colorado River is an article on, “biggest user will conserve some water in exchange for federal dollars.”
The Feature then completes this week’s report.
