California's Water Experts Are All Wet
Someone better send John Kerry a high school geography textbook.
Our brilliant Secretary of State doesn't seem to know that California is about two-thirds desert.
Based on his recent statements about the cause of my home state's 13-month drought, Kerry doesn't know anything about California's history or climate, either.
He thinks the state's current drought — which is draining reservoirs, raising fears of severe water shortages in small towns, and already causing the usual idiots to demand the death penalty for lawn watering — is the result of man-made climate change.
If only more of Kerry's Hollywood soul mates would drive a Tesla, if only every American could be forced to walk or windsurf to work each day, we could save California from drying up and blowing away.
Not exactly, secretary. California's mostly a desert. It's been one for eons. Deserts tend to, ah, have water issues — especially when tens of millions of people live in them.
My native state has been subject to droughts that make the current mini-drought look like monsoon season. This dry spell is nothing compared to the mega-droughts of old.
How about the one that started in the year 850 — and lasted 240 years? Or the shorter one that began in about 1100 and ended in 1300? Did humans cause them too, secretary?
Were the Tongva people who lived in L.A. before the Spanish arrived driving too many big SUVs or barbecuing too many mountain lions?
When I was growing up in Southern California we had droughts.
But in 1960 we didn't have to worry about running out of water because we had a competent state government that had built enough dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts to serve its 16 million people.
http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/California-Water-Drought-Kerry/2014/02/26/id/554966/
