{"id":1175,"date":"2014-11-06T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:00:55","slug":"nasa-warns-california-drought-could-threaten-u-s-food-supply-there-will-be-some-definite-changes-dave-hodges-the-common-sense-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: \u201cThere will be some definite changes\u201d | Dave Hodges \u2013 The Common Sense Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: \u201cThere will be some definite changes\u201d | Dave Hodges \u2013 The Common Sense Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s\u00a0Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/span>\u00a0has sounded a stark\u00a0warning<\/span>\u00a0over\u00a0California\u2019s sustained drought<\/a>,\u00a0publishing<\/span>\u00a0its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And with\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0as the United States\u2019 most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to America\u2019s food\u00a0supply<\/span>\u00a0(and much of the world\u2019s as well) that could mean drastic consequences for\u00a0food commodity prices<\/a>\u00a0and potential shortages.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Nature Climate Change journal<\/a>\u00a0carried the report, which\u00a0Think Progress<\/a>\u00a0summarized:<\/p>\n

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A new Nature\u00a0Climate Change<\/span>\u00a0piece, \u201cThe global groundwater crisis,\u201d by James Famiglietti, a leading hydrologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, warns that \u201cmost of the major aquifers in the world\u2019s arid and semi-arid zones, that is, in the dry parts of the world that rely most heavily on groundwater, are experiencing rapid\u00a0rates of<\/span>\u00a0groundwater depletion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The groundwater at some of the world\u2019s largest aquifers \u2014 in the U.S. High Plains, California\u2019s Central Valley, China, India, and elsewhere \u2014 is being pumped out \u201cat far greater rates than it can be naturally replenished.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most worrisome fact: \u201cnearly all of these underlie the word\u2019s great agricultural regions<\/strong>\u00a0and are primarily responsible for their high productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NASA\u2019s\u00a0satellite map<\/a>\u00a0shows the loss of height just in the past three years:<\/p>\n

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NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: \u201cThere will be some definite changes\u201d | Dave Hodges \u2013 The Common Sense Show. NASA\u2019s\u00a0Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u00a0has sounded a stark\u00a0warning\u00a0over\u00a0California\u2019s sustained drought,\u00a0publishing\u00a0its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply. And with\u00a0California\u00a0as the United States\u2019 most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,102,928,929],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-california-drought","tag-food-supply","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}