(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
A Note to Readers
Nature is providing a mixed message this winter. While the snowpack remains significantly below the average level for this date, and the actual overall precipitation also is below average, a succession of storms and atmospheric rivers have been drenching most of California over the last couple of weeks, and more are on the way.
So, the reservoirs are full or nearly so, but it is the snowpack in the Sierras that provide the water needed later in the summer and fall. Thirty percent of the water California cities and agriculture require each year comes from the snowpack. And the “snow drought” does bring on the threat of a new drought this coming summer.
A competent article from Fox today, “California’s ‘ARkStorm’: Historic 1000-year floods of 1861-62 featured 8 weeks of atmospheric rivers,” and illustrated by our photo above, demonstrates that this year’s storms are not anything new.
While some are claiming that the storms this winter are unprecedented and driven by climate change, they are ignoring the “megaflood” of the winter of 1861-62.
Paleoclimatetologists have often studied and written on this megaflood that put Sacramento under 30 feet of water for months and created a giant lake covering the entire Central Valley of the state.
The climate history of California over several thousand years had been one of alternating megafloods and megadroughts. Some of those droughts lasted as long as 100 years.
The present two decades of lengthy droughts and a few winters of extreme flooding that the state has experienced, are neither something new, nor should be used as propaganda pushing the narrative that all unusual weather is “more evidence” of mankind’s caused climate change.
Three articles provide more on the Silicon Valley billionaires attempting to create the globalist’s “15 minute city” by taking over Solano County north of the Bay Area. Fifteen minute cities are the Utopian dream of creating cities in which you do not need a family car for living in it, as everything you need (work, schools, shopping, parks) will be within walking distance or public transit within 15 minutes of your home.
That delusion should be contrasted with what President Donald Trump has proposed in working with the Democratic mayors of major cities throughout the country to bring new industry to those cities, and having created productive jobs for millions of residents, then rebuild those cities. Trump has discussed this in his campaign events several times in recent weeks.
Our final item this week is, “Nearly 4,500 dealerships representing all major auto manufacturing brands from every state recently signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to “tap the brakes” on his proposed electric vehicle mandate based on a lack of consumer demand.”
