From a useful op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times: In January, it rained a lot in Southern California. The usual street intersections flooded. Water tumbled down the Los Angeles River. And houses in areas ravaged by fires last fall seemed in danger of sliding off their hilltop perches. It was chaotic, as always — butContinue reading “Understanding Drought: Lesson One”
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NO MORE WATER: Scientists, Oak Trees Predict Drought
After an unusually dry winter, experts in climate and weather are predicting drought for Ventura County and Southern California. Southern California experienced the driest fall and winter in over a century, according to the National Oceanographic and Atrmospheric Administration, and the drought is expected to continue and widen across the region. Continue reading “NO MORE WATER: Scientists, Oak Trees Predict Drought”
Dueling Drought Stories
The "new normal" in the Southwest is drought, about which we’ll be hearing plenty in the years and decades to come. Even some conservatives, such as the illuminating Rod Dreher, are writing about the fact that Dallas is expected soon to be a Dust Bowl, to the apparent anger and incredulity of most of hisContinue reading “Dueling Drought Stories”
Kit Stolz 