{"id":6549,"date":"2015-03-16T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2015-03-16T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:18:52","slug":"california-is-turning-back-into-a-desert-and-there-are-no-contingency-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6549","title":{"rendered":"California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/california-is-turning-back-into-a-desert-and-there-are-no-contingency-plans\" target=\"_blank\">California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Once upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert.\u00a0 And now, thanks to the worst drought in modern American history, much of the state is turning back into one.\u00a0 Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century that the state of California had seen in 1000 years.\u00a0 But now weather patterns are reverting back to historical norms, and California is rapidly running out of water.\u00a0 It is being reported that the state only has approximately a one year supply of water left in the reservoirs, and when the water is all gone there are no contingency plans.\u00a0 Back in early 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the entire state, but since that time water usage has only dropped by 9 percent.\u00a0 That is not nearly enough.\u00a0 The state of California has been losing more than 12 million acre-feet of total water\u00a0<strong>a year<\/strong>\u00a0since 2011, and we are quickly heading toward an extremely painful water crisis unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take my word for it.\u00a0 According to\u00a0<a title=\"the Los Angeles Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, Jay Famiglietti \u201cis the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory\/Caltech and a professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine\u201d.\u00a0 What he has to say about the horrific drought in California\u00a0<a title=\"is extremely sobering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is extremely sobering<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As our \u201cwet\u201d season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions.<strong>January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows<\/strong>. We\u2019re not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we\u2019re losing the creek too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans Once upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert.\u00a0 And now, thanks to the worst drought in modern American history, much of the state is turning back into one.\u00a0 Scientists tell us that the 20th century was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[101,3816,220,4208,3973,2455,929],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-california","tag-desert","tag-drought","tag-groundwater","tag-jerry-brown","tag-los-angeles","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","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=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}