Thursday, April 02, 2015
10-second disproof
Headline from NYTimes: "California imposes first-ever water controls."
Nope. I know that's wrong. Check googlebooks:
"As a result of rigid water rationing during the dry years of 1898, 1899, and 1900, the citizens in 1904 authorized a bond issue for the construction of Mission Tunnel...."
Hmm. Three dry years? I thought the current multi-year drought was "unprecedented".
[1977]: In some places in the Bay Area, strict rationing was imposed....
Good old Memory Hole. Perhaps we should rename it the Nagourney Hole.
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Looking at NCDC, in fact neither of those periods was a long statewide drought.
It shows up even better in the data list and in monthly and seasonal graphs. The latest drought is 2013. That's all. Before and after 2013 are normal-looking patterns. Something weird happened in 2013, just as the opposite kind of weird happened in 1983. The real long-term drought was from 1917 through 1936. Nineteen years well below average, broken by a couple of slightly-aboves.
If you build enough dams and use water sanely, you can get through one extreme dry or wet year. Even with good dams and sane usage, a twenty-year lack means trouble.
Of course California SMASHES dams and uses water crazily, solely obeying the ecomurderers instead of normal engineering and agricultural practices. So it can't deal with one bad year. That's not the fault of Nature or Evil KKKarbon or anything else. It's the fault of ecomurderers. As usual in modern USA STRONG: Create a problem then kill a bunch of people to "solve" the problem you invented.
It shows up even better in the data list and in monthly and seasonal graphs. The latest drought is 2013. That's all. Before and after 2013 are normal-looking patterns. Something weird happened in 2013, just as the opposite kind of weird happened in 1983. The real long-term drought was from 1917 through 1936. Nineteen years well below average, broken by a couple of slightly-aboves.
If you build enough dams and use water sanely, you can get through one extreme dry or wet year. Even with good dams and sane usage, a twenty-year lack means trouble.
Of course California SMASHES dams and uses water crazily, solely obeying the ecomurderers instead of normal engineering and agricultural practices. So it can't deal with one bad year. That's not the fault of Nature or Evil KKKarbon or anything else. It's the fault of ecomurderers. As usual in modern USA STRONG: Create a problem then kill a bunch of people to "solve" the problem you invented.Labels: Age of Stings, Carbon Cult
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