(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230126-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
Over the last few weeks, this report has provided extensive coverage of the drought, the floods, and where we stand, so to speak, with both and their relationship. Also, coverage has included some historical perspective on past megadroughts and megafloods, demonstrating that some who wish to use the current developments to promote more of the nonsense about the meaningless phrase “climate change,” are either very ignorant or have an ill intent.
I’ll not repeat what has already been said. But, will refer the reader who may have missed it to my article published on the LaRouche PAC website on January 18:
California—Flooded Amidst Drought
By Patrick Ruckert
January 18, 2023
https://www.larouchepac.com/california_flooded_amidst_drought
The rest of this week’s report:
The U.S. Drought Monitor this week shows that despite the precipitation in late December and the first two weeks of January, 90% of the state remains in “Moderate” or “Severe” drought.
The two sections of the report in regard to California are titled:
California: A Great Snowpack, but Will It Last as Long-term Drought Persists in US West
Water Allocation for Agriculture Still A Problem
The section on the Colorado River lacks any coverage of the looming deadline of January 31 for the states to come to an agreement on how they will cut their withdraws from the river by two to four million acre feet. I suspect that intense negotiations are going on and the states are mum in order to prevent leaks to the media.
The article following this title: California’s Battle to Ensure that its Diablo Nuclear Power Plant Will Have Its Life Extended, really does not say anything unexpected.
The Feature this week is from my colleague Robert Ingraham. Here is the title and the first two paragraphs:
Feature: Panic in Davos: The Coming Ukraine Disaster Can Sink the Whole Utopian Project
On the one level, the hundreds of speakers at last week’s Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) repeated the well-worn utopian schemes familiar from all their previous meetings, calling for their anti-human “Climate Change” agenda; for their anti-industrial “Environmental, Social and Governance” investment straitjacket; for “Central Bank Digital Currencies” (CBDC) to eliminate all national sovereignty; for universal digital surveillance and censorship; and for Klaus Schwab’s chimerical “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
But in reality, nothing was the same and everything has changed. In reality, the lavish weeklong spectacular was all one long shriek of desperation, to wit: “We must win the Ukraine War against Russia! Nothing else counts! There is no alternative!”
