(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230119-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
The main item in this week’s report is my article published on January 18 on the LaRouche Political Action Committee website.
The article ridicules those journalists and others who claimed that the recent parade of storms in California was caused by climate change. All the evidence to refute such nonsense is provided in the article, with the necessary historical evidence over millennia.
Also, the idea of that the storms have ended the drought is shown to be without foundation, and the real state of the drought is documented.
The other major feature of the article is the contrasting of great builders of water and other infrastructure of the past to the bureaucratic and visonless mindset of the political leaders and water managers today.
Following the text of the article are several items that provide more evidence and background for the article itself.
The Rest of the Report
The U.S. Drought Monitor map for California this week continues to show that the storms have significantly lowered the drought’s intensity, but at the same time demonstrate that ending the drought will not occur this year no matter what the rest of the winter provides of rain and snow. The Summary below the map provides a good overview of drought conditions throughout the West.
Then a brief weather report follows. No more precipitation for the remainder of January. And after, that there may be some in February.
“The California Water Board May Not Be Able to Deliver Water, But it Will Do So With Equity.” demonstrates, once again, the absurdity of the “woke” culture.
The Colorado River section covers recent developments in both the attempt by the states to come to an agreement on how to cut 2-4 million acre feet of water from their allocations by the deadline of January 31, followed by a couple of article on the recent rain and snow in the basin.
The Feature this week is a video of a lecture and discussion by my colleague Bruce Director, “Anti-Entropy: The Only Sustainable Path for Planet Earth.”
Bruce’s argument:
We often hear the term “sustainability” claimed by environmentalists and policy-makers to describe the policies of shutting down our industrial society, putting farm land out of production, replacing fossil fuels with near worthless solar and wind power, and for substantially reducing the human population of our planet, as something necessary to achieve in order to “save Mother Earth.”
“But, there is nothing sustainable about windmills, solar panels, banning fossil fuels, banning gas stoves, the green new deal or whatever Malthusian policy to which this adjective is attached. The only thing sustainable by these policies is the continued decline in living standards, life expectancy, population decline and human progress.
“Last week, in the third part of our series on LaRouche’s science of physical economy, we discussed how the universe is anti-entropic, and how this characteristic reflects the principle on which all economic progress is based. Tonight we will continue this discussion, showing how this principle must be incorporated into U.S. economic policy in order to create truly sustainable economic progress.”
