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The man said there is no drought. That is a lie by any standards.
Why you refuse to acknowledge reality and instead go for whatever he says is true, doesn't make sense.
He's winging it. The correct observation would have been -- California doesn't have a water shortage.
And ol' fecalhead once again denies reality so he can stay true to the Party dogmas, like a good little rightwingnut troll.
In the real world....as has already been cited and ignored by trolls like fecalhead.....
The U.S. Drought Monitor released April 28 shows that slightly more than 4 percent of California, in the northwest part of the state, is NOT in drought.
The Drought Monitor intensity levels are Abnormally Dry, Moderate, Severe, Extreme and Exceptional drought.
The report shows extreme drought covers 49 percent of California and exceptional drought now covers 21 percent of the state. Moderate drought covers 90 percent of the state, with 74 percent in severe drought.
The United States Geological Survey says:
California Drought Facts
California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.
2014 was the third driest year on record.
On April 1, 2015, DWR measured the statewide water content of Sierra snowpack at five percent of average for April 1st. These levels are lower than any year in records going back to 1950. The April 1st snowpack measurement is crucial because this is when the snowpack is normally at its peak and begins to melt into streams and reservoirs. Snowpack, through runoff, provides about one-third of the water used by California's cities and farms.
In the real world (not your private little Denier-stan Bizarroword, fecalhead), it is the scientific studies carried out by agencies like the United States Geological Survey that "determine if the state is short of water". And, with the Sierra snowpack at only 5% of normal for April 1st, they say we are, dumbfuck.Drought "Deficits" are not what determines if the state is short of water.
Oops, you spotted my mistake. I copied the wrong paragraph from the USGS California Drought Facts article I had cited and quoted in post #14 of this thread.If you're STILL quoting numbers for 2014 and the snowpack from April 1st 2015 --- you have serveral issues Tink..
Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? The state is short on water when there isn't enough snowpack water storage to adequately feed the streams and rivers in the late spring and summer, when it gets very hot and dry. That is not far from the current situation, with the snowpack, as of March 1st, at only 83% of normal for that date and the string of extraordinarily hot months continuing to melt the snow more rapidly. This year might not be too bad compared to the recent severe drought years, but one year's rainfall will not fix everything.....nor does it guarantee that there will be adequate rain and snow fall next year, or the year after, when we're back in the La Niña phase of the ENSO, instead of the current El NiñoRainy seasons in California are 5 or 6 months long. They don't FIT the yearly calendar. If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.
Not when they are flushing millions of gallons into the ocean. Stop that and see if there is still a shortage.Trump Tells California 'There Is No Drought'
Trump Tells California 'There Is No Drought'
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, "There is no drought."
Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of denying water to Central Valley farmers so they can send it out to sea "to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish
Goddamn this guy hasn't a goddamn clue. The most extreme drought in califorina recorded history isn't a drought? He doesn't know what he is talking about and needs the services of a meteorologist. jesus fuck.
Your grasp on this issue is obviously about as deep as a rain puddle on the sidewalk.Not when they are flushing millions of gallons into the ocean. Stop that and see if there is still a shortage.Trump Tells California 'There Is No Drought'
Trump Tells California 'There Is No Drought'
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, "There is no drought."
Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of denying water to Central Valley farmers so they can send it out to sea "to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish
Goddamn this guy hasn't a goddamn clue. The most extreme drought in califorina recorded history isn't a drought? He doesn't know what he is talking about and needs the services of a meteorologist. jesus fuck.
Exactly, cause a politician is always lying. Facts are Greek to them. LOLHe certainly knows how to get under their skin..... Using fact based data..I love trump
Pray tell, what is "fact-based data"?
Trump saying so.
You mean their climateBy the way..............nobody cares about the drought in California.
And Hillary is a fkn genius right? How do you live with youAmazing how informative the posts of 'Conservatives' are. Totally demonstrates why they support Trump.Blarf coogle squat poof blow.
It's what you do.
The guy really doesn't have more then a second grade understanding of science and that is why these people hate science so much. Our educational system has truly failed if someone like trump can win based on out right lies.
Oops, you spotted my mistake. I copied the wrong paragraph from the USGS California Drought Facts article I had cited and quoted in post #14 of this thread.If you're STILL quoting numbers for 2014 and the snowpack from April 1st 2015 --- you have serveral issues Tink..
Here's the right one for 2016 from that article...
Although water year 2016's snowpack started off at 136 percent of normal as measured on December 30, 2015, as of March 1, 2016, the California Department of Water Resources(DWR) measured the statewide snowpack to be at 83 percent of normal for this date, the result of moderate precipitation and relatively warm temperatures.
Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? The state is short on water when there isn't enough snowpack water storage to adequately feed the streams and rivers in the late spring and summer, when it gets very hot and dry. That is not far from the current situation, with the snowpack, as of March 1st, at only 83% of normal for that date and the string of extraordinarily hot months continuing to melt the snow more rapidly. This year might not be too bad compared to the recent severe drought years, but one year's rainfall will not fix everything.....nor does it guarantee that there will be adequate rain and snow fall next year, or the year after, when we're back in the La Niña phase of the ENSO, instead of the current El NiñoRainy seasons in California are 5 or 6 months long. They don't FIT the yearly calendar. If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.
And you're quite wrong in your claims. "EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season" does not end a five year drought or mean that the state is "NOT SHORT OF WATER", you clueless twit. You are apparently too ignorant to recognize the significance of the deeper long-term impacts of the multi-year drought afflicting California, like heavily depleted groundwater.
California Drought Status 2016: El Nino Won’t Stop Record Water Shortage, Experts Say
International Business Times
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS
04/10/16
A dying Joshua Tree is pictured in November 2015 in Joshua Tree National Park, California. Despite rain and snow from the El Nino weather phenomenon, record water shortages have continued throughout the state. PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has sent rain and snowstorms to California in 2015 and 2016, hasn't solved the state's record drought, experts said. While the water level in some reservoirs has increased in this period, many aquifers and rivers remain dry as California farmers and residents explore new ways to cope with the ongoing water shortage.
El Niño has been a "band-aid on a gaping wound", Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southern California, told Agence-France Presse Sunday.
California has long suffered from intermittent water shortages, and a five-year recent rain shortage has put the state in a period of drought. El Niño is a weather phenomenon defined as a 1.5-degree Celsius temperature warming in the Pacific Ocean that causes massive rain showers across California, Mexico, central America and the Southern U.S. While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
Residential use will need to be curbed, and California residents will need to find more creative ways of capturing rainwater and recycling water in order to better use the amount available. Activists and lawmakers alike have advocated for desalination and other technologies to conserve water.
Around 40 percent of water consumption is used for agriculture in California, and environmentalists have criticized farmers for not putting in place more advanced irrigation systems. California farmers also continue to grow plants like alfalfa that require large amounts of water and are better suited to other climates, some say. A water subsidy for farmers has only exacerbated the problem, one former governor said.
“The subsidies are distorting water usage throughout the West and providing an incentive to use more water than would be used in an open market,” Bruce Babbitt, Arizona’s former governor and a former U.S. Secretary of the Interior told ProPublica in May 2015, adding, “Water is going to be the oil of the 21st century, and it should go to the best use. Right now, I don’t know if we’re doing that.”
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If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.
Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? And you're quite wrong in your claims. "EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season" does not end a five year drought or mean that the state is "NOT SHORT OF WATER", you clueless twit. You are apparently too ignorant to recognize the significance of the deeper long-term impacts of the multi-year drought afflicting California, like heavily depleted groundwater.
California Drought Status 2016: El Nino Won’t Stop Record Water Shortage, Experts Say
International Business Times
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS
04/10/16
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has sent rain and snowstorms to California in 2015 and 2016, hasn't solved the state's record drought, experts said. While the water level in some reservoirs has increased in this period, many aquifers and rivers remain dry as California farmers and residents explore new ways to cope with the ongoing water shortage.
El Niño has been a "band-aid on a gaping wound", Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southern California, told Agence-France Presse Sunday.
California has long suffered from intermittent water shortages, and a five-year recent rain shortage has put the state in a period of drought. El Niño is a weather phenomenon defined as a 1.5-degree Celsius temperature warming in the Pacific Ocean that causes massive rain showers across California, Mexico, central America and the Southern U.S. While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
You sure are....as usual, fecalhead.STILL clueless....
Nope! I discuss snowpack levels because that is where the winter rain water is naturally stored and where the water comes from in the summer to keep the rivers flowing and everything from drying up and blowing away in the summer sun, like the Dustbowl hit Oklahoma in the 1930s.Because you quote "snowpack" as a measure of precipt....
If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? And you're quite wrong in your claims. "EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season" does not end a five year drought or mean that the state is "NOT SHORT OF WATER", you clueless twit. You are apparently too ignorant to recognize the significance of the deeper long-term impacts of the multi-year drought afflicting California, like heavily depleted groundwater.
California Drought Status 2016: El Nino Won’t Stop Record Water Shortage, Experts Say
International Business Times
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS
04/10/16
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has sent rain and snowstorms to California in 2015 and 2016, hasn't solved the state's record drought, experts said. While the water level in some reservoirs has increased in this period, many aquifers and rivers remain dry as California farmers and residents explore new ways to cope with the ongoing water shortage.
El Niño has been a "band-aid on a gaping wound", Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southern California, told Agence-France Presse Sunday.
California has long suffered from intermittent water shortages, and a five-year recent rain shortage has put the state in a period of drought. El Niño is a weather phenomenon defined as a 1.5-degree Celsius temperature warming in the Pacific Ocean that causes massive rain showers across California, Mexico, central America and the Southern U.S. While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.You sure are....as usual, fecalhead.STILL clueless....
Nope! I discuss snowpack levels because that is where the winter rain water is naturally stored and where the water comes from in the summer to keep the rivers flowing and everything from drying up and blowing away in the summer sun, like the Dustbowl hit Oklahoma in the 1930s.Because you quote "snowpack" as a measure of precipt....
Snowpack levels are one of the critical measurements for determine a drought period. Overall precipitation counts too, but what counts even more right now is the heavily depleted groundwater levels in the state's aquifers. Well water is vital for irrigation and rural living in many areas.
You attempt to spin other numbers in your idiotic attempt to deny that California is still in a long term drought period because Trump said that 'there is no drought' is pointless and absurd. The Federal and the State scientific agencies in charge of monitoring and analyzing the situation both say that the California is still in a drought that, after five years of insufficient water supplies, cannot be ended by one year with somewhat normal rainfall.
The article I just cited made that plain...
While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
Why?
I cant understand?
If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? And you're quite wrong in your claims. "EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season" does not end a five year drought or mean that the state is "NOT SHORT OF WATER", you clueless twit. You are apparently too ignorant to recognize the significance of the deeper long-term impacts of the multi-year drought afflicting California, like heavily depleted groundwater.
California Drought Status 2016: El Nino Won’t Stop Record Water Shortage, Experts Say
International Business Times
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS
04/10/16
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has sent rain and snowstorms to California in 2015 and 2016, hasn't solved the state's record drought, experts said. While the water level in some reservoirs has increased in this period, many aquifers and rivers remain dry as California farmers and residents explore new ways to cope with the ongoing water shortage.
El Niño has been a "band-aid on a gaping wound", Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southern California, told Agence-France Presse Sunday.
California has long suffered from intermittent water shortages, and a five-year recent rain shortage has put the state in a period of drought. El Niño is a weather phenomenon defined as a 1.5-degree Celsius temperature warming in the Pacific Ocean that causes massive rain showers across California, Mexico, central America and the Southern U.S. While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.You sure are....as usual, fecalhead.STILL clueless....
Nope! I discuss snowpack levels because that is where the winter rain water is naturally stored and where the water comes from in the summer to keep the rivers flowing and everything from drying up and blowing away in the summer sun, like the Dustbowl hit Oklahoma in the 1930s.Because you quote "snowpack" as a measure of precipt....
Snowpack levels are one of the critical measurements for determine a drought period. Overall precipitation counts too, but what counts even more right now is the heavily depleted groundwater levels in the state's aquifers. Well water is vital for irrigation and rural living in many areas.
You attempt to spin other numbers in your idiotic attempt to deny that California is still in a long term drought period because Trump said that 'there is no drought' is pointless and absurd. The Federal and the State scientific agencies in charge of monitoring and analyzing the situation both say that the California is still in a drought that, after five years of insufficient water supplies, cannot be ended by one year with somewhat normal rainfall.
The article I just cited made that plain...
While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
If you get EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season --- You are NOT SHORT OF WATER. REGARDLESS what the longterm booked deficit is on paper or how it is accounted for on the calendar.
Silly moron! Trump said 'there is no drought', so now you have to believe that, no matter what? And you're quite wrong in your claims. "EVEN ONE normal or above normal precipt season" does not end a five year drought or mean that the state is "NOT SHORT OF WATER", you clueless twit. You are apparently too ignorant to recognize the significance of the deeper long-term impacts of the multi-year drought afflicting California, like heavily depleted groundwater.
California Drought Status 2016: El Nino Won’t Stop Record Water Shortage, Experts Say
International Business Times
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS
04/10/16
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has sent rain and snowstorms to California in 2015 and 2016, hasn't solved the state's record drought, experts said. While the water level in some reservoirs has increased in this period, many aquifers and rivers remain dry as California farmers and residents explore new ways to cope with the ongoing water shortage.
El Niño has been a "band-aid on a gaping wound", Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Southern California, told Agence-France Presse Sunday.
California has long suffered from intermittent water shortages, and a five-year recent rain shortage has put the state in a period of drought. El Niño is a weather phenomenon defined as a 1.5-degree Celsius temperature warming in the Pacific Ocean that causes massive rain showers across California, Mexico, central America and the Southern U.S. While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
STILL clueless....
You sure are....as usual, fecalhead.
Because you quote "snowpack" as a measure of precipt....
Nope! I discuss snowpack levels because that is where the winter rain water is naturally stored and where the water comes from in the summer to keep the rivers flowing and everything from drying up and blowing away in the summer sun, like the Dustbowl hit Oklahoma in the 1930s.
Snowpack levels are one of the critical measurements for determine a drought period. Overall precipitation counts too, but what counts even more right now is the heavily depleted groundwater levels in the state's aquifers. Well water is vital for irrigation and rural living in many areas.
You attempt to spin other numbers in your idiotic attempt to deny that California is still in a long term drought period because Trump said that 'there is no drought' is pointless and absurd. The Federal and the State scientific agencies in charge of monitoring and analyzing the situation both say that the California is still in a drought that, after five years of insufficient water supplies, cannot be ended by one year with somewhat normal rainfall.
The article I just cited made that plain...
While the increased rain is a welcome change, California would have needed to see 2.5-3 times its average rainfall in order to begin ending the drought, according to Kevin Werner, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's expert on climate in the western United States.
The topic of the this thread, fecalhead, is...I NO WHERE stated that Cali is not in a drought. I corrected Trump's statement to leave out the drought and replace it with "water shortage".
