Monday, January 09, 2017
STRONG as usual
While we're all fretting and fussing about DARK DARK DARK STUNNING STUNNING HORRIFYING TERRIFYING TROLL TRUMP HITLER KKK HITLER KKK, a similarly "unprecedented" and "stunning" change is happening on the Wets Coast. (Mistyped, decided to leave it in place!)
California's drought is over.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, the same pattern has happened before. In the late '30s and the early '50s, a long-lasting gradient brought floods in the Midwest and droughts and windstorms on the West Coast.
In both earlier occurrences of this phase, government responded CORRECTLY. In the '30s the WPA built dams and windbreaks to serve as smoothing filters for the natural square wave. In the '50s the government was considering all sorts of solutions. Desalination for California, seeding clouds to redistribute the flooding, more dams. They did build more dams in Kansas, which DID SOLVE THE PROBLEM for cities. (For farmland, flooding is a feature not a bug. It rebuilds topsoil.)
In the current phase, which seems to be finishing off after 4 years just as the previous phases did, government response has been PERFECTLY WRONG. Instead of building dams we're breaching them. Instead of allowing loggers to thin out forests we're letting them grow. Instead of keeping houses and forests separate we're adding MORE trees to urban areas and moving MORE urban areas into the forest. Meanwhile, we're wasting TRILLIONS on absolutely useless Gaia-worship.
PERFECTLY SUICIDAL. STRONG. STRONG. STRONG.
Labels: Carbon Cult, STRONG!
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