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Jerry Brown defends drought order that doesn't limit farmers
2015-04-06 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday defended his order requiring Californians statewide to cut back on their water use in a historic mandate that spares those who consume the most farmers. Related Stories As California endures a fourth year of drought, Brown's order this week requires towns and cities statewide to draw down water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. While past reductions were voluntary, Brown said he is using his emergency powers to make the cuts mandatory. Martha Raddatz, host...
Brazilian Drought Could Last 30 More Years, Meteorologist Says
2015-04-06 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald Tribune: The current drought in southeastern Brazil, the richest, most densely populated region in the country, has created the greatest water shortage in the last 85 years and could last for 30 more years, a meteorologist said Saturday. The meteorologist and partner-director of the consultancy Somar Meteorology, Paulo Ethichury, told Efe that the South American countrys current climate follows a cooling cycle in the Pacific Ocean during recent years, which came after the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, when it...
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California drought: governor tells climate-change deniers to wake up
2015-04-05 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As his state faces the worst drought in its history, with mandatory water rationing for residents and fears of destruction to the agricultural sector, California governor Jerry Brown had a message Sunday for climate-change deniers: wake up. With the weather thats happening in California, climate change is not a hoax, Brown said, on ABC news. Were dealing with it, and its damn serious. Snow pack in California this year, which historically has renewed the states water reservoirs each...
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California Drought Tests History Endless Growth
2015-04-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty. It was the cutting-edge symbol of possibility: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, aerospace, agriculture and vineyards. But now a punishing drought and the unprecedented measures the state announced last week to compel people to reduce water consumption is forcing a reconsideration of whether...
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California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
2015-04-05 15:34:12| Energy - Topix.net
California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters', writes Evan Blake. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
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