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Calif drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
2015-04-05 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: There are immense water efficiencies to be gained, but any rational reorganization is blocked by the US financial oligarchy, which, controlling the entire political system, will not abide any impingement on its profits. The unprecedented drought gripping California has deepened for the fourth consecutive year, having already set new records for the lowest annual precipitation levels on record. 2014 brought the highest calendar-year temperature for the state, while this February was the hottest...
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Coping With California's Drought
2015-04-04 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: In a week when Governor Jerry Brown announced mandatory water restrictions, NPR's Arun Rath talks with reporter Kirk Siegler about his visit to the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the snowpack so vital to the state water supply is dramatically absent. ARUN RATH, HOST: While the world struggles with the problem of too much oil, here in California we're consumed with a far more primal concern - not enough water. From the moment we moved this show to Los Angeles, we've been reporting on how bad...
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One Farmers Battle with Californias Worst Drought
2015-04-04 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On a warm March afternoon, farmer Cannon Michael walks alongside wheat fields adjacent to his house in Los Banos, in California's Central Valley. Most of these fields won't be watered again this year. Cannon Michael in on a mission to preserve farming in California, despite layers of agricultural regulations and the state's historic drought. "Wheat's not a glamorous crop, but it makes a lot of bread,' Michael quips. This wheat, though, won't return much money, Michael says. So it will be...
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Drought, Climate Change and California's Multibillion-Dollar Problem
2015-04-03 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Two weeks before California Governor Jerry Browns announcement on Wednesday that residents and businesses in the Golden State -- which is withering amid one of its worst droughts in modern history -- would be subjected to unprecedented restrictions on water usage, he issued a blistering attack on those who continue to question fundamental climate science. Such thinking, Brown said during an appearance on NBCs Meet the Press late last month, borders on the immoral, and the Democratic governor...
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Drought is just the start of California climate woes, says report backed by business heavyweights
2015-04-03 18:22:34| IT Services - Topix.net
Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor and founder of Bloomberg LP, is a key backer of the Risky Business Project, which supports efforts to mitigate climate change. California's coastal properties, water supplies, agricultural heartland and overall economy could take huge hits by 2050, and bigger ones later, unless we take "immediate action," warns a report backed by Tom Steyer , Henry Cisneros , Hank Paulson and Michael Bloomberg , among other business and policy honchos.
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