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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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The many droughts of California
2015-04-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: CALIFORNIA has only two seasons, rainy and dry. In March, when the rains stop assuming they have begun we must forget about precipitation for at least six months. The rainfall determines our mood for the summer and fall. Where I live, on the Central Coast, 17 inches of rain per winter has been the long-term average. Beating that number we last did it five years ago feels like winning the lottery. Lately, the average has been well under 10. The difference between a good rain year in California...
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California imposes first-ever mandatory water restrictions
2015-04-04 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Four years of a historic drought that has left California parched forced Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday to declare the first mandatory water restrictions in the states history. He ordered the State Water Resources Control Board to enact mandatory cuts in water use by 25 percent, which could save 1.5 million acre-feet of water over nine months. An acre-foot contains 325,851 gallons of water. Brown issued the executive order while visiting the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada an area that...
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