Climate Change? Nahhh ...

The water wars are coming

 

If California is facing a true long-term change in winter precipitation patterns, it's going to get Draconian very quickly. The 1977-78 drought should have been a massive wake-up call. Instead, the population of the state has doubled.

 

True that. I've been saying it for 20 years or more, and they're going to make the oil wars seem tame in comparison. You can live without oil. You can't live without water.

 

Oh, you need more water?

"For the first time on record, precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland — roughly two miles above sea level — fell as rain and not snow.

Temperatures at the Greenland summit over the weekend rose above freezing for the third time in less than a decade. The warm air fueled an extreme rain event that dumped 7 billion tons of water on the ice sheet, enough to fill the Reflecting Pool at the National Mall in Washington, DC, nearly 250,000 times."

Greenland: Rain fell at summit for first time on record - CNN

 

The climate monks are not pleased.

Opinion | Three Years After Greta Thunberg’s Strike, Adults Are Failing Children on a Global Scale

The Children’s Climate Risk Index will provide the first comprehensive view of where and how this crisis affects children. It ranks countries based on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, as well as their underlying vulnerability to those shocks.

 

As we begin to look at the peak of hurricane season, and because my dad gives me grief about our place at the beach, I'd like to point out that neither of these places is anywhere near the ocean.

10 dead, 31 missing in Humphreys County after flooding

4 victims of Haywood County flooding identified, 3 still missing, officials say

 

I think that the feds are going to have to start buying out water right holders in the West. The water rights were allocated in a time when there was more snow melt and hence more water to allocate.

 

I have to wonder. Do you have any children?

 

Jake Gittes is already on the case.

 

You know what happens to nosy people, Jake? They lose their noses.