{"article":{"id":265067,"heading":"Water in California - info proliferated now is dubious","author":"wetter waterer","created":"2014-07-29 00:04:38","modified":"2014-08-16 02:31:53","last_modified":"Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:31:53","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Many other discussions besides the fear-mongering ones on most local news places in LA are questioning the sudden surge not in water-use but in fear-explosions, drowning the media repeatedly. <br><br> LA Times published a front page article on Sunday 7\/27\/2014 <br>  <br> \"Calculating water usage a tough task\" pointing to the incomplete data and thus interpretations of what is actually happening in this southern california desert.   <br><br> California officials admit they have incomplete water usage ... <br>  <br> www.latimes.com\/...\/la-me-water-use-war-20140727-... <br>  <br> Los Angeles Times <br><br> When state regulators tried to tally water use across California recently, ... a hard time figuring out just how much water is being used by Californians. (Justin Sullivan \/ Getty Images). By Hector Becerra contact the reporter ... The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power initially left the data for ... July 27, 2014. <br><br> well, facts are facts until they are unfact-ed and statistics are games with numbers that even sometimes reflect some realities, temporarily.  <br><br> for more info:  <br><br> Amazon.com: How to Lie with Statistics (9780393310726 ... <br>  <br> www.amazon.com &rsaquo; ...  How to Lie with Statistics  <br><br> How to Lie with Statistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <br>  <br> en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics <br>  <br> Wikipedia <br><br> How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954 presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Huff was a journalist who wrote ... <br>  <br> How to Lie with Statistics - www.goodreads.com  <br><br> Bestseller Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as ... <br>  <br> [see elsewhere for more on this topic ]  <br><br> and everyone Wants To Be THE Expert, the One Who  Knows It all All Right and all now.  <br><br> oh well....... <br><br>  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stasi","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Constant fear productions proliferate our minds and our lives, without many questioning.  Water shortage is the latest catastrophe being hawked to TheAmericanLittlePeople who use a teensy bit for clean 3rd worldish lives in So.California. \r\n\r\nThe attempts to cause more insecurity, uncertainty and Blame the Ordinary Residents, i.e. of Los Angeles, vs. the agriculture businesses in No.CA and the commercial businesses everywhere is the usual - YOU must be to blame and we will punish you for using 'too' much precious water.\r\n\r\nThe break-up community aspect is for neighbors to anonymously report about another's water usage with the righteous pride of having caught a 'bad guy' slyly is like East Germany's Stasi's games - spies living amongst each other so everyone distrusts and worries and can thus be Controlled.\r\n\r\nOh no, here too ? Water is scarcer than before but still available and drinkable and for cleaning, in individual lives, not just in money-gathering-places of business, anywhere, even in LA.\r\n\r\nWonder about what we hear and read and then ask,\r\nhow did we 'suddenly' arrive at this desert from which we dare not escape or move ? Question those who like to hawk their fear-wares and fame flames of scarcity, that then elicits herd-obedience in that fear place.   \r\n\r\nCan this be yet another 'conspiracy' that is not theoretical but created for political or financial purposes ? \r\n\r\nCould it be ? ","numcomment":26,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2014\/07\/265067.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":265070,"heading":"dry out","article":"How to save water.\r\n\r\nHuman beings need around half a gallon to a gallon of water per day.\r\n\r\nIf it's yellow, let it mellow.\r\n\r\nIf it's brown, flush it down.\r\n\r\nEach flush takes over a gallon of water.\r\n\r\nYou can live for a day on that water, if you hadn't taken a piss in it.\r\n\r\nTo measure water usage from a hose, time how long it takes.\r\n\r\nA hose typically flows at 10 gallons per minute.\r\n\r\nThree minutes of watering is 30 gallons of water.\r\n\r\nYou can live for a month on that water.\r\n\r\nLet the lawn die.\r\n\r\nWashing dishes is necessary.  So keep doing that.  You can do it in five gallons of water if you use a drain plug.\r\n\r\nWashing clothes takes around 15 to 20 gallons of water.  Just do a full load and hope for the best.  Your clothes are pretty dirty.\r\n\r\nA showerhead uses 1 to 2.5 gallons per minute.  So a five minute shower takes 5 to 18 gallons.\r\n\r\nLook up &quot;navy showers hollywood showers&quot;.\r\n","author":"nobody","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-07-29 06:25:14","modified":"2014-07-29 06:25:14","fileurl":""},{"id":265071,"heading":"The Effluent Society","article":"Global Warming Up Close: It's Time To Drink The Toilet Water\r\n\r\nThe Effluent Society\r\n\r\nThis is what we're reduced to after 30+ years of politicians pretending there isn't a problem.\r\n\r\n\r\nBrantley Hargrove at the Texas Monthly with the story of one city that will soon be drinking its own toilet wastewater. Don't laugh, this may be in your future, too:\r\n\r\n\r\nNone of these measures have turned out to be enough. When the lakes dip below 25 percent\u2014and they will soon\u2014the city will move from Stage 4 Drought Disaster water restrictions to Stage 5, the precise details of which were a matter of conjecture until April, when the city government decided upon them. \r\n\r\nAmong other things, the city\u2019s outdoor swimming pools won\u2019t be filled from the municipal supply and the car washes around town will be forbidden to use city water two days a week\u2014or seven days a week if levels dip below 20 percent.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a set of restrictions that, like this drought, are without precedent in Wichita Falls. The residents have been asked to change the way they live\u2014to leave behind the days of plenty and adapt to a new reality. A city may survive for a time without electricity or natural gas, but water is the lifeblood of civilization. \r\n\r\nWe need it to drink, cook, and flush away excrement, the public health hazard that bedeviled our ancestors for millennia and continues to kill millions every year in the undeveloped world. The extremity of need in this part of Texas is so profound that Wichita Falls plans to turn this ancient relationship with human waste on its head\u2014by drinking treated toilet water.\r\n\r\nOn an early April morning, Schreiber strides across the grounds of the River Road Wastewater Treatment Plant in size fourteen ostrich-skin boots, explaining how he plans to keep the city from becoming a ghost town. This is his corner of Texas\u2014he grew up in the German farm country just to the south, in Windthorst\u2014and he feels the weight of his responsibility acutely. Schreiber walks to a basin that is churning with chlorinated water from Wichita Falls\u2019s toilets, showers, dishwashers, and sinks. \u201cWe don\u2019t have an aquifer we can tap and get fifteen million gallons a day out of,\u201d he says. The city draws its water exclusively from the nearby lakes. \u201cEvery lake within a one-hundred-and-fifty-mile radius is in the same shape ours are.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n...If there\u2019s any squeamishness about drinking treated toilet water, the city isn\u2019t hearing about it. \u201cMy first response was \u2018Oh no, I won\u2019t be drinking it. We\u2019ll use bottled water,\u2019?\u201d says Mike Mason, who services water pumps around Wichita County. \u201cBut assuming it passes all the state tests, we\u2019re at a point now where we have no other options.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThey understand they\u2019re running out of water,\u201d says Daniel Nix, Schreiber\u2019s utilities operations manager. \u201cWe don\u2019t have anybody standing up in council meetings and saying, \u2018No way.\u2019 What we are hearing is \u2018Why isn\u2019t this done already?\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-29 10:38:26","modified":"2014-07-29 10:38:26","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/this_is_where_this_data-less_post_belongs_too.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/this_is_where_this_data-less_post_belongs_too.jpg"}},{"id":265072,"heading":"&quot;well, pictures are pictures until they are unpictured&quot;","article":"see this is where such magical thinking leads us - to drinking toilet water","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-29 10:48:24","modified":"2014-07-29 10:48:24","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hoover_dam_intakes_exposed_-_to_magical_thinking.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hoover_dam_intakes_exposed_-_to_magical_thinking.jpg"}},{"id":265074,"heading":"notice too","article":"there's nothing about the SUPPLY of water running out - only disputing and bickering over the DEMAND\r\n\r\nsquabbling over who gets what - no concern at all over *where it comes from*\r\n\r\n\r\nnow apply that same 'me-my-mine' kind of thinking (ayn rand is that you?) to the watersheds these desert areas steal the water from, and you see the flow being cut off, because the water (what's left of it anyway) of the people at the lake is again 'me-my-mine'.","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-29 11:22:06","modified":"2014-07-29 11:22:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/this_is_-my-_water_-_you_desert_dwellers_cant_have_any_more.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/this_is_-my-_water_-_you_desert_dwellers_cant_have_any_more.jpg"}},{"id":265075,"heading":"this narrow minded selfish science-adverse reactionary thinking","article":"begets the beginning of water wars","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/gif","created":"2014-07-29 11:24:18","modified":"2014-07-29 11:24:18","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/water_wars.gif","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/water_wars.gif"}},{"id":265083,"heading":"Who Goes Dry First? Vegas or Phoenix?","article":"The title of first American city to be abandoned for lack of water will be awarded in the next decade or so, and it\u2019s hard to decide whether to bet on Las Vegas or Phoenix. It could be a tie.\r\n\r\nIn Vegas, \u201cthe situation is as bad as you can imagine,\u201d according to climate scientist Tim Barnett at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Vegas gets its water from Lake Mead, impounded by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.\r\n\r\nIt is lower now than it ever has been since the lake was filled in 1938. Another 37 feet and the Las Vegas intake pipe will be sucking air.\r\n\r\nThen what? According to Rob Mrowka, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, \u201cAs the water situation becomes more dire we are going to start having to talk about the removal of people..&quot;\r\n\r\n&quot;Once the surface of Lake Mead drops the next 87 feet, below the level of the \u201c2nd straw\u201d and representing less than 1\/3 of the volume lost in the past decade, there will be insufficient head pressure to spin the turbines in the base of the dam. \r\n\r\nLake Powell is in equally dire condition and when electricity is no longer supplied by those facilities everyone in the Four Corners states, as well as those in several neighboring ones, will go dark and it won\u2019t matter one bit how much silty, super-polluted water remains in either reservoir. I don\u2019t see how those residents have more than 5-6 years to either relocate or die in situ.&quot;\r\n\r\n\r\n&quot;Along with rising sea levels, we\u2019ve drained the major aquifers dry. Too many people demanding too much. It\u2019s not rocket science, just the \u201crules\u201d you have to play by in an finite world of limited resources.\r\n\r\nBuilding mega-cities in the dry desert was and always will be just plain stupid. Mankind does not control Nature. Nature does and always has (and always will) control mankind of what he sets out to do.\r\n\r\nI also worked for the Bureau of Reclamation in Boulder City (Hoover Dam). An ambitious project for sure, but doomed to climate impacts. A longer \u201cstraw\u201d will only help suck the lake down even further. This does nothing to mitigate climate change \u2013 or the silly decision to build a megapolis in the desert.\r\n\r\nPhoenix is no better off. The Colorado \u201criver\u201d is a tiny trickle you can literally step across before in reaches Mexico. Dry desert areas have long been abandoned once they become unihabitable. Modern civilization is not immune to the effects of a warming planet and changing climate.\r\n\r\nIf you live anywhere in the south (the entire southwest, which of course includes Texas too) \u2013 move. Now. Real estate will become very difficult to obtain as millions flee rising temperatures, fires and lack of water.\r\n\r\nBottom line \u2013 you can\u2019t suck up (more) water that isn\u2019t there. Spend whatever you want, but no amount of spending will solve this.&quot;\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/png","created":"2014-07-29 23:48:29","modified":"2014-07-29 23:48:29","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lake-mead-water-levels.png","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lake-mead-water-levels.png"}},{"id":265084,"heading":"amazing concidences of wasting waters...","article":"so all the water that we have individually been so carefully saving and not-using and trying to be ohhhhh 'so good' as desert dwellers and then...\r\n\r\n\r\nwater ruptures and explodes out on cement, streets, and campuses...wow\r\n\r\nwhat a message there is here...\r\n\r\nwhat is it ?\r\n\r\neveryone will surely demand to have the Only RIGHT answer, of course...see comments coming to the rescue right now...\r\n\r\n","author":"wetter waterer","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-07-30 00:26:03","modified":"2014-07-30 00:26:03","fileurl":""},{"id":265085,"heading":"The Colorado \u201criver\u201d is a tiny trickle you can literally step across","article":"step across this ^","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-30 00:28:35","modified":"2014-07-30 00:28:35","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/our_river_-_taken_03-12-2014.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/our_river_-_taken_03-12-2014.jpg"}},{"id":265086,"heading":"&quot;everyone will surely demand to&quot;","article":"suck other people's water until there's none left.\r\n\r\n- then bitterly complain about how they're ENTITLED to water in a desert..\r\n\r\nnotice the above QUOTED post - notice where they recommend you MOVE NOW while you still can\r\n\r\n..move to somewhere that actually has water","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-30 00:40:57","modified":"2014-07-30 00:40:57","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/colorado_river_-_just_a_trickle_because_of_entitlement.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/colorado_river_-_just_a_trickle_because_of_entitlement.jpg"}},{"id":265087,"heading":"Go see the reservoirs","article":"Get groups and cameras out to the reservoirs and see what's going on.  Think Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. Visit the farm lands and water system. The truth is out there.","author":"LastBoyScout","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-07-30 03:52:05","modified":"2014-07-30 03:52:05","fileurl":""},{"id":265088,"heading":"here's what's going on","article":" - the burning of fossil fuels is melting the arctic ice and weakening the jet streams, altering the climate, leading to permanent  drought\r\n\r\nthe CO2 that was emitted 40 years ago is responsible for the drought we're seeing now, and we've emitted much more since then, so even worse drought is already &quot;baked in the cake&quot;.\r\n\r\nadditionally 3 dozen positive feedbacks are starting up, which during the same time frame (the next 30-40 years) will greatly accelerate the climate chaos, producing wet-bulb temperatures too hot to survive even with a fan, making these affected areas uninhabitable, like death valley \r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/png","created":"2014-07-30 05:38:06","modified":"2014-07-30 05:38:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140722_usdm_home.pngppfxvn.png","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140722_usdm_home.pngppfxvn.png"}},{"id":265091,"heading":"dont ya love the media waterDisuse programming ?","article":"we are now told to [1] not wash cars,  [2] yes to tell on your neighbor but anonymously so they wont know you snitched on their water use,  [3] and to drink less water, more sodas, alcohol, plastic-bottled-stuff, and [4]  please also urinate less often, if you can hold it in.\r\n\r\nwe are told on  'The  News' repeatedly,   [1] not only the extemees, to  'save water' in homes,   [2]   to keep dirty as we can stand,    [3] to notify CDC if any antibiotic-resistant germs dont comply with our water shortage-usage and   [4]  to PLEEESE ! only do as you are told - on any airwaves, printed papers, and uniformed forces.\r\n\r\nor    \r\n\r\n[1] the jails are too full for excess water user types   [2]   prisons are crowded, even solitary confinement cells  [3] executions have been delayed but may be reinstated if dead bodies do not need to be cleaned up before\u2026whatever they do to them  and [4] boating and fishing are allowed and not controlled at all because that water is not drinkable, yet.\r\n\r\n\r\ncity water faucets will soon come with sink-meters that \r\nautomatically with an app or remote shut off when more than 3 glassfuls of water have used per day -- that is for family of 4, of course, as all housing units are calculated on 'family of 4' as if that has become the norm. If there are less in that housing unit, they will be forced to become 4, or have diminished water supplies. \r\n\r\nagricultural watering continues as always before with a small rate increase that will be reduced when the lobbyists and cronies have negotiated the subsidies that make the price increase actually a decrease.\r\n\r\ngolf courses are not to be touched or left to be other than bright-green-green, with no artificial turf ever included, for businessses cannot be conducted without such necessary facilities for chumminess and secret agreements.\r\n\r\nall restaurants may no longer serve water, only beer, alcohol, canned\/bottled drinks -- and soup is no longer cooked [too much water usage].   Only dry foods and dehydrated vegetables are on  all future menus, unless a 213% surcharge is paid, in advance.  food trucks are excluded from above as they can use water from truck when necessary- in order  to make up for their driving expenses and reduce land use food outlets. \r\n\r\ncar washes, laundromats and water 'parks' for children and all playgrounds will have 1\/3 of 2013 water supplies available only.  so grey'd clothes, streaked cars, dusty children and no-fun-anywhere for those under 12 y.o. is the new mode of this land. No exceptions ! \r\n\r\nRemember, everyone must give up something to save those who are in this world for profit and publicity only.\r\n\r\nAll water fountains are dry and removed to avoid tampering with govt properties.   \r\n\r\nAll vending machines are limited to 1 purchase per person [credit cards + ATM cards only] per ea weekday,  or 1 for every week-end.   \r\n\r\nSodas are limited to foam, fuzz, artificial flavor 'added' and continue with pictures of luscious fruit to induce sales.   Both in fast-food places or grocery-sales places, same rules apply. \r\n\r\nGrocery stores  may [not obligatory ] continue to sell liquids in containers -  but limited - with coupons issued by local govt and enforced by the Health Dept of that local area. \r\n\r\nWater is precious and 'bodily fluids' should be measured and maintained pure [see Dr. Strangelove's dialogue for correct definition and instructions...they apply to all in USA, especially those in California and mostly to those in the Los Angeles areas = all of the above included].\r\n\r\nEnjoy the scenery, what is left of it, rocks, colored dusts, carcasses of native animals, scuttling insects [not affected by lack of water or clear water needs ] and the sky. Desert lands are meant to be lived within it's boundaries and conditions, with equality for all within that territory.\r\n\r\nBYOW   wherever you want to go. Or go without.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"wetter waterer","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-07-30 20:42:57","modified":"2014-07-30 20:42:57","fileurl":""},{"id":265094,"heading":"&quot;Desert lands are meant to be&quot;","article":"..barren of people, because people require lots of water to live.\r\n\r\nsome animals and some plants can survive in deserts, but not people, especially entitled narrow minded selfish reactionary people, who want to ignore reality and live in a fairy land of magical thinking where merely bitching about something is seen as an effective way to deal with nature's harsh realities.\r\n\r\n - let this map be your guide\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-07-30 22:24:26","modified":"2014-07-30 22:24:26","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/move_to_the_blue_areas_or_drink_toilet_water.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/07\/move_to_the_blue_areas_or_drink_toilet_water.jpg"}},{"id":265111,"heading":"The Drought Goes From Bad To Catastrophic","article":"&quot;One would think that 36+ million people would be starting to notice that something is seriously wrong.&quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nAs we previously commented, when scientists start using phrases such as &quot;the worst drought&quot; and &quot;as bad as you can imagine&quot; to describe what is going on in the western half of the country, you know that things are bad. However, in recent weeks the dreadful situation in California has gone from bad to catastrophic as the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that more than half of the state is now in experiencing 'exceptional' drought, the most severe category available. And most of the state \u2013 81% \u2013 currently has one of the two most intense levels of drought.\r\n\r\nWhile California\u2019s problems are particularly severe, that state is not alone in experiencing significant drought right now. There are wide swaths of moderate to severe drought stretching from Oregon to Texas, with problems impacting numerous states west of the Mississippi River.\r\n\r\nSome of the most severe droughts outside of California are impacting large pockets in Oklahoma, Texas and, particularly, Nevada, where more than half of the state is currently experiencing one of the two most intense drought conditions.\r\n\r\nMost people just assume that this drought will be temporary, but experts tell us that there have been &quot;megadroughts&quot; throughout history in the western half of the United States that have lasted for more than 100 years.\r\n\r\nIf we have entered one of those eras, it is going to fundamentally change life in America.\r\n\r\nAnd the frightening thing is that much of the rest of the world is dealing with water scarcity issues right now as well.  In fact, North America is actually in better shape than much of Africa and Asia.  For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled &quot;25 Shocking Facts About The Earth\u2019s Dwindling Water Resources&quot;.\r\n\r\nWithout plenty of fresh water, modern civilization is not possible.\r\n\r\nAnd right now, the western United States and much of the rest of the world is starting to come to grips with the fact that we could be facing some very serious water shortages in the years ahead.\r\n\r\n&quot;Another climate change \/ global warming story (on this right wing site) that does not use the phrases climate change or global warming.\r\n\r\nOstriches!&quot;\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-02 00:51:06","modified":"2014-08-02 00:51:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140801_drought_0.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140801_drought_0.jpg"}},{"id":265113,"heading":"California Is Now Experiencing Its Most Severe Drought Ever Recorded","article":"California\u2019s drought has reached levels so high and widespread that it\u2019s now the most severe drought ever recorded by the federal government in the state, according to new data released Thursday.\r\n\r\nThe U.S. Drought Monitor, which began issuing drought reports in 1999, showed that the majority of the state is now in the worst category of drought conditions. Specifically, roughly 58 percent of California is considered to be in \u201cexceptional drought\u201d \u2014 a category marked by dark red in the picture \u2014 which is the most severe of five drought categories.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFreedman also pointed out that even though the Drought Monitor has only been keeping record of dryness since the late 1990s, there\u2019s evidence that this particular drought is \u201cmore severe in many ways than a landmark drought in the late 1970s, and is comparable, if not worse than, events that occurred since instrument records began in the mid-19th century.\u201d\r\n\r\nCalifornia\u2019s drought has been serious for some time. In May, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed that \u201csevere drought\u201d \u2014 the level just below \u201cexceptional\u201d \u2014 officially covered every inch of the state, setting up \u201cunprecedented\u201d fire conditions in several areas. The extreme drought and heat have depleted reservoirs and even aquifers, increasing the state\u2019s chance of earthquakes, a recent Nature study found.\r\n\r\nThe severity of the drought now is also increasingly threatening the state\u2019s $44.7 billion agricultural industry, the Drought Monitor noted, saying California\u2019s topsoil moisture reserves are \u201cnearly depleted.\u201d It\u2019s impacting people\u2019s lives, too \u2014 earlier this month, California agreed to impose fines of up to $500 on residents who were caught doing things like washing cars with running hoses, watering lawns during the hottest parts of the day, and letting water from outdoor sprinklers run down sidewalks. Some Californians are even taking to social media to call out and shame neighbors and businesses that are wasting water.\r\n\r\nThe latest report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a conservative panel which draws from the expertise of more than 800 scientists around the world, said it is \u201cmore likely than not\u201d that man-made global warming is causing longer and more intense droughts in many regions, including the American Midwest and California. Climate change has also been shown to worsen Western droughts, even if it doesn\u2019t reduce precipitation.\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nthis ^ is the mild, business-as-usual, shop-till-you-drop, don't-scare-the-consumers version of what's happening - the data I've been posting is the real story\r\n\r\nwe are at the beginning of a never ending mega-drought\r\n\r\nthis is just the beginning - you haven't seen 'nothin yet\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-02 02:46:43","modified":"2014-08-02 02:46:43","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dried-up_ditch_in_richvale.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dried-up_ditch_in_richvale.jpg"}},{"id":265114,"heading":"latest data: 'no end in sight' to the current drought conditions in California.","article":"Unfortunately, while the situation in California is already pretty bleak, it looks like things are only going to get worse.\r\n\r\nIn fact, it's possible that all of the American southwest could soon be seeing the devastating drought conditions that Californians are facing.\r\n\r\nThat's because the largest surge of heat ever recorded moving west to east in the Pacific Ocean, often referred to as a Kelvin Wave, which was supposed to start an El Ni\u00f1o and bring tropical-like rains to the West Coast and southwest, just dissipated, after it was absorbed by abnormally warm ocean waters.\r\n\r\nAn El Ni\u00f1o is marked by the prolonged warming of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures, when compared to the average temperature. El Ni\u00f1os usually happen every two to seven years, and can last anywhere between nine months and two years.\r\n\r\nAs warm water spreads from the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean to the eastern Pacific, it brings rain and moisture with it, bringing rain to California and the American Southwest.\r\n\r\nSo, during an El Ni\u00f1o period, winters are often a lot wetter than usual in the southwest U.S., including in central and southern California, where drought conditions are currently the worst.\r\n\r\nThat's why Californians were hoping for a strong El Ni\u00f1o period, to bring the rains and moisture that's needed to help ease the drought.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, while some weather models are still predicting that an El Ni\u00f1o is possible, the chances of an El Ni\u00f1o strong enough to break the devastating drought that California is seeing are now very, very slim.\r\n\r\nAs a result, there's probably no end in sight to the current drought conditions in California.\r\n\r\nAnd, since warm ocean waters that bring rain are moving farther north up the Pacific, While Oregon and Washington and Alaska will get rain, the jet stream is set to extend drought-like conditions to much of the southwest.\r\n\r\nIt could get so bad that there's now a very real possibility that devastating drought conditions will soon cover everywhere from Texas to California.\r\n\r\nWarmer ocean waters, like those that absorbed the record Kelvin ocean heat wave, and the drought-like conditions they're helping to influence, are a direct consequence of climate change and global warming.\r\n\r\nBecause of climate change and global warming, our oceans are getting warmer and warmer, shattering previous temperatures records on what seems like a daily basis.\r\n\r\nAnd as our oceans continue to warm, we'll have more severe forms of weather, like the historic drought that has engulfed California.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&quot;California and the rest of the American southwest may soon look more like the Sahara&quot;\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-02 03:01:40","modified":"2014-08-02 03:01:40","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014_731_drou_fw.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014_731_drou_fw.jpg"}},{"id":265115,"heading":"Models Show Worsening Drought Conditions Under Human-Caused Climate Change","article":"Unfortunately for California, the US Southwest, and for a growing portion of the country, the most recent drought may be just one in a string of many increasingly worsening events to come. \r\n\r\nClimate models predict a wholesale drying out of the US Southwest and Central US under an intensifying regime that has already begun to take hold.\r\n\r\nFor Californians suffering under a three year long drought, such long-range forecasts indicate that the worst may be yet to come.\r\n\r\nBut Californians are not alone, as model predictions show most of the US coming under an increasing regime of drought as human-caused warming intensifies throughout the 21st Century. Drought emerging now in the US Southwest is expected to expand north and eastward, eventually taking root and reaching an extreme intensity in the Central US. The front of drought then rides into the US Southeast and Mid-Atlantic as, by mid-to-late century, it surges northward into Canada.\r\n\r\nThe lesson to take from this is that few in the US are spared a fate of worsening drought spurred by human-caused climate change. And with climate change clearly linked to the California drought, we may be getting a bit of the bitter taste of what\u2019s still to come.\r\n\r\nUPDATE: US Drought Monitor now reports that the California Drought is now the worst in state history and that soil moisture levels are nearing zero for much of the state.\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/png","created":"2014-08-02 13:04:48","modified":"2014-08-02 13:04:48","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140729_usdm_home.png","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140729_usdm_home.png"}},{"id":265117,"heading":"California Drying: \u201cWe May Have to Migrate\u201d","article":"The only category of drought higher than the one now assigned to nearly 60 percent of California (the USDA\u2019s Drought Monitor calls it \u201cexceptional\u201d)  is \u201cBiblical.\u201d \r\n\r\nThree years in, there is no relief in sight \u2014 the much-anticipated El Nino pattern of sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, which usually increases rainfall in California, has not materialized. \r\n\r\nIt would take a full year of normal rain and snowfall to restore surface waters to normal levels.\r\n\r\n\r\nIt is, right now, one of the worst droughts in the history of North America. Bad enough, says Lynn Wilson, chair of the School of Arts and Sciences at Kaplan University and member of a UN delegation on climate change, that \u201cwe may have to migrate people out of California.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhich immediately led to a post on the aptly named Lunatic Outpost ( I am not making any of this up) titled \u201cUN panel recommends moving people out of California.\u201d  In black transport helicopters, one assumes.  (For the record: Dr. Wilson\u2019s UN service is not her day job, and her observation had nothing to do with the UN.)\r\n\r\nBut just because you\u2019re paranoid doesn\u2019t mean you might not have to leave California. \u201cCivilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of drought,\u201d says Dr. Wilson, and although heroic measures can be expected before any such decision is reached, she says, \u201cit can\u2019t be taken off the table.\u201d\r\n\r\nOminously, heroic measures are already being taken. Californians can now be fined $500 for washing their car or watering their ornamentals. Time to move to Phoenix. Oh, wait\u2026.\r\n\r\nLike an earthquake far out to sea, the California catastrophe has raised a tsunami of consequences that has not yet reached the doorsteps of the rest of the country. Except for much higher prices for lettuce and, one assumes, arugula. California industrial agriculture produces half of America\u2019s produce \u2014 fruits, vegetables and nuts \u2014 and to do it sucks up 80 per cent of the available water. (Which is why, when the drought gets really, really bad, the government cracks down on car-washing.)\r\n\r\nWith half a million acres of farmland idled for lack of irrigation water, with lettuce wilting and fruit trees dying, the hurt will soon spread beyond the region\u2019s devastated farmers. Just this year, the California Farm Bureau estimates, the average American family should expect to spend $500 more on food because of the California drought. And next year, it\u2019s going to get serious.\r\n\r\nNext year, or soon thereafter, they are going to start running out of groundwater to pump onto their fields. And while the effects of that will be obvious and immediate, there\u2019s more: they have already pumped so much water out of the Central Valley\u2019s deep aquifer that the Sierra Nevada has rebounded upward by a half inch just in the last decade \u2014 six inches in the last century-and-a-half \u2014 and the massive San Andreas Fault has been twitching with unusual clusters of earthquakes nearby.\r\n\r\nThe UC Davis study went to great lengths to monetize the costs of the drought just this year to the state ($2.2 billion), to agriculture ($1.5 billion), and so on. \r\n\r\nBut it may not be until we see the first battalions of climate refugees trudging across the Oregon border in search of rain that we comprehend the true cost of screwing around with Mother Nature.\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-03 01:26:50","modified":"2014-08-03 01:26:50","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/refugees.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/refugees.jpg"}},{"id":265128,"heading":"FEEEEEEAR!!!  more and obey","article":"anyone can write fear-horror stories and quote some far out other persons 'version of  of what &quot;estimates, guesses, predictions, imaginings, fantasies, and whatnots else the mind can create&quot;.\r\n\r\nso ???\r\n\r\nfear pushing is like drug dealing...\r\n trying to cause sensational images and selectively repost and repeat the same as commercial mass media uses...for what ourpose?\r\nnot to tell it truthfully\r\nbut to get attention to that author or topic\r\nand to feel important as those messages were &quot;important&quot; or valuable.\r\nmostly they are NOT...just pushing\r\nFEAR.  ...sort like amphetamines or other artificial stimulants \r\njust to feel sumtin ? or to be aroused ?  or to get attention, finally ?\r\n\r\neasy.\r\ntry doing something more difficuly and constructive...\r\nnot the immediate easy gratification of mass media tactics\r\nyuk!","author":"wetter waterer","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-08-03 23:26:10","modified":"2014-08-03 23:26:10","fileurl":""},{"id":265129,"heading":"estimates, guesses, predictions, imaginings, fantasies","article":"I post pictures for the reality impaired and the science adverse\r\n\r\n-any chart or graph will be dismissed, but it's hard to keep that stance, when actual pictures of reality are staring you in the face..\r\n\r\nwho do you believe - your lying eyes or some internet troll\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/png","created":"2014-08-04 01:02:35","modified":"2014-08-04 01:02:35","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/estimate_guess_prediction_imagining_fantasy.png","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/estimate_guess_prediction_imagining_fantasy.png"}},{"id":265182,"heading":"any internet person- doll like or gummy bear like","article":"&quot;\r\nBut just because you\u2019re paranoid doesn\u2019t mean you might not have to leave California&quot;\r\n\r\nbut to be paranoid is to exaggerate what dire circumstances MUST WILL MUST BE come....insisting that any dangers are extinction-based\r\n\r\nto be paranoid is to like drama, extremes, and hawk news that fits that fearful and grandiose mindset\r\n\r\nto be paranoid is not a 'bad' or 'evil' state of mind but one that cannot reside in the intermediate, moderate, middle-way or real world that changes and shifts and creates differences constantly, without putting Big Huge FEAR up front !\r\n\r\nto be paranoid can be fun and games ...for a while but is exhausting and fixed\/ rigid for long term living\r\n\r\nto be paranoid is to find what will only confirm those fears and those 'facts' selectively selected to prove &quot;I Am Right !&quot; and &quot;only I know the Truth&quot; etc. etc.    to be bigger, better, smarter, writing more and proving his-self as The Best of alllllll dem other dumb ordinary folks...\r\n\r\nyep, it can be exciting. but part of reality and truth is Never Fixed and as Limited as any human mind prefers to portray.\r\n\r\ntry trusting that your life, my life, our lives as we live in USA now is only a temporary state and place and does not need to be 'easy' nor 'always same' or even 'comfortable, safe and perfect' most of the time.\r\n\r\nTo have less water may be a reality, especially when UCLA's Sunset Blvd water waste showed how much still flows in our LA pipes....regardless of shallower lakes, dams, and minds.\r\n\r\nwhen we run out, oh well.... whatever we do next is whatever is possible....\r\n\r\nand yes, plan, worry, call out the * wasters *\r\n\r\n[i.e. commercial businesses of all kinds that use as much Public Water as ever before or pay a little more and use more for their own profits and keeping up with their competitors] \r\n\r\ncall out the agricultural BUSINESSES commercial corporations that continue to demand and get extra water for their trees [not for our use but their profits, still same effects of watering their organizational 'needs', not The American California Public's ]\r\n\r\ncomplain to anyone -  because we know no one is listening  - they are just BLAMING :  the ordinary residential and homeless and anyone who dares use their regular water use. We do not waste - as we are  people who pay and make no profit on their water use - we do not waste our paid-for-utilities.\r\n\r\nThe loud screaming and fear-mongering is striking the basic fear of \u201cdying of thirst\u201d...not  of having less water -  to wash clothes or food in.   while the vociferous advertising and promoting of limiting residential common-folk water usage is for a reason, and it is not altruistic, realistic nor honest either !\r\n\r\njoin in with the capitalist-water-users and add to their campaigns -  where they get more [ get  MORE water,  profits, $, political power and land too, etc ]   and  while everyone else, the majority of the California inhabitants [native ones ] get less.     \r\n\r\nas usual. what's new here ? who is being fooled by headlines and fancy photos...not photo-shopped but that become instead news-hopped-up-dramatically = faked. The pix are not fake, but the stories promoting them are. Any change is a Danger ! Any lack is a Death Threat !\r\n\r\nAnything less than they\/we had a moment before is a Serious Loss ! Anything PR\u2019d , promoted, sold via any media to a gullible fearing [already well trained to fear and buy-more \u2013 even pills and diversions \u2013 anything!  to allay those commercially-induced-fears ]\r\n\r\nfear not dear one as all will end in the ways it will, \r\nand you too will not be heard or here to proclaim  and display your fears so well. \r\n\r\ntoo bad. death is at our door while profits continue to roll in into jackpot [gambling image] machines in elite islands of what livable lands are left.    \r\n\r\nso ?   what  ? ","author":"wetter waterer","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-08-05 18:39:59","modified":"2014-08-05 18:39:59","fileurl":""},{"id":265187,"heading":"makes perfect sense to me","article":" your explaination is a work of art, so I'll leave you to it ^\r\n\r\nhave fun\r\n\r\n","author":"toilet water drinker","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-05 21:25:06","modified":"2014-08-05 21:25:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/vies-toilet.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/vies-toilet.jpg"}},{"id":265364,"heading":"Horrific Methane Eruptions in East Siberian Sea","article":"&quot;A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding in the Arctic Ocean. Huge quantities of methane are erupting from the seafloor of the East Siberian Sea and entering the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean.\r\n\r\nPeak levels as high as 2363 ppb were recorded at an altitude of 19,820 ft (6041 m) on the morning of August 12, 2014. The middle image shows that huge quantities of methane continued to be present over the East Siberian Sea that afternoon, while the bottom image shows that methane levels as high as 2441 ppb were recorded a few days earlier, further indicating that the methane did indeed originate from the seafloor of the East Siberian Sea.\r\n\r\nOn August 12, 2014, peak methane levels at higher altitudes were even higher than the readings mentioned on above image. Levels as high as 2367 ppb were reached at an altitude of 36,850 ft (11,232 m). Such high levels have become possible as the huge quantities of methane that were released from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean over the period from October 2013 to March 2014, have meanwhile descended to lower latitudes where they show up at higher altitudes.\r\n\r\nMethane eruptions from the Arctic Ocean's seafloor helped push up mean global methane levels to readings as high as 1832 ppb on August 12, 2014.\r\n\r\nIronically, the methane started to erupt just as an international team of scientists from Sweden, Russia and the U.S. (SWERUS-C3), visiting the Arctic Ocean to measure methane, had ended their research.&quot;\r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\non another note, cali politicians have reached an agreement to only try to SPEND their (our) way out of the drought by approving a $ 7 billion tax on YOU\r\n\r\n- throwing YOUR money at the predicament is all they know how to do.  the construction will comsume huge quantities of CONCRETE which is a huge source of CO2, further accelerating the very predicament they're trying to address, but notice none of the $ 7 billion is allocated to desalination like foolish israhell is pushing, because it takes huge amounts of energy with their 'advanced technologies' to do so and it will never scale to meet demand..\r\n\r\n- all of these measures are in furtherance of business-as-usual with no effort or even thought directed to the core issue - industrial civilisation's looting & polluting, which is typical and which drives even more nails in our Near Term Extinction coffin.\r\n\r\n..the arctic is spitting such nails right now","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/png","created":"2014-08-14 14:08:53","modified":"2014-08-14 14:08:53","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/east-siberian-sea.png","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/east-siberian-sea.png"}},{"id":265369,"heading":"to wetter","article":"Re: wetter waterer\r\n\r\nWe are in a severe drought.  We will need to force agriculture to cut its usage.  It can be done by cutting hereditary water rights by some fraction.  It can be done by raising the price of water to agriculture.  Raise the price, and they'll find ways to conserve it.\r\n\r\nOur usage stays high because, at least in Los Angeles, the people don't seem to be informed that we're in a severe drought.  I suspect it's mostly the mainstream media, particularly the print and online media, pushing the story, and the ethnic media not pushing it.  Also, newer LA folks won't remember the old days when we had to change our toilets and empty pools.\r\n\r\nThe westwood leak is not proof of anything.  It's just one accident, and our water system is vast.  There are 10 million people in the county, and nearly every single person has access to water from a tap.\r\n\r\nWe will need to reduce water use again.  We'll have non-flushing urinal or toilet systems.  We'll have even more shower restrictions.  We'll have more carwashing restrictions \u2013 the $10 carwash will become the $15 carwash.  Restaurants will have to adjust.  We should look into hydroponic farming.  We should also cut back on things like soda and beer, which consume more water than what ends up in the bottle.\r\n\r\nYour rant is amazing in its illogic, too.  The best sources of water are fruits and vegetables, which have purified the water and stored it in a relatively sanitary package, complete with vitamins, sugars, and some minerals.  An orange is almost entirely water, for example.  While it's not a water-saving plant, it can be watered with well water, which is basically clean but not purified, and the water within the orange is clean.  A cucumber is even better \u2013 a fast growing plant that stores water in the fruit, and the rest of the plant is relatively dry.\r\n\r\nRe: Crazy_inventor \u2013 LA is not a desert.  It's got a couple rivers and used to have a lot of streams, which are now covered.  There have always been trees and brush.  Normally, we get a little over a foot of rain, and the plants get a lot of watering from the overnight dew. It does use much more water than the climate provides.  We're not good at harvesting water from the air, or building in ways that allow us to keep water longer.\r\n\r\nPeople will eventually move from LA when the costs of living here get intolerably high.  Capital needs to exit the area first.\r\n\r\n","author":"nobody","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-08-15 06:24:56","modified":"2014-08-15 06:24:56","fileurl":""},{"id":265371,"heading":"if words were water","article":"so, the 'solutions' you've proposed are to conserve but not evacuate (business-as-usual), to use well water even though fossil aquifer's which take thousands of years to replenish, are so depleted that salt is encroaching and RUINING them (see israhell) and 'harvesting dew' in a desert (palaeoclimatologists beg to differ on the claim it's _not_ a desert) which is also just business-as-usual.\r\n\r\nthere IS no solution, it's a predicament, you can't spend your way, conserve your way, magicly think your way, or ignore your way out of it, because you 'forgot' to acknowledge the 800 lb gorilla in the room, man-made climate chaos triggered Near Term Extinction.\r\n\r\n- which means not only is it a permanent drought with no end, in a desert, but the wet-bulb temperature will soon climb to lethal levels - around 2035 or so according to the most recent data IF NOT SOONER.\r\n\r\nwhat this means is, not only will all plant life die (which solves the farms hoarding 80 % of the water problem) but humans (this means YOU - I think) cannot survive under such conditions, even with a fan blowing on you.\r\n\r\nthink death valley\r\n\r\napply all your techno-fixes, 'solutions' and magical thinking to death valley, because THAT is what you're facing within only a few decades.\r\n\r\ndon't believe me?  look at the data (I've been posting it and warning people here all along but here again are the citations)\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/arctic-news.blogspot.fr\/\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/robertscribbler.wordpress.com\/\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-08-15 11:10:58","modified":"2014-08-15 11:10:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/climate-related-deaths-june-2014.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/08\/climate-related-deaths-june-2014.jpg"}},{"id":265379,"heading":"California Water Bond Won't Create New Water","article":"OAKLAND - \u201cFood & Water Watch is disappointed with the $7.5 billion water bond passed by the State Legislature and Governor Brown, now slated for the November ballot. While this bond will not solve California's water problems, it will stick taxpayers with serious debt. The bond prioritizes $2.7 billion of taxpayer dollars on wasteful dam projects: spending money to pour more concrete won\u2019t create a drop of new water or increase water use efficiency. An investment in dams is an investment in private interests, not in the public interest. \r\n\r\n\u201cIn addition, the bond would funnel taxpayer money to purchase more water for big agriculture interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, where corporations are exporting water-intensive crops grown on toxic soil. Meanwhile, the Brown administration has yet to take serious action to promote water efficiency and stop the over-pumping of our groundwater.  \r\n\r\nThis bond measure fails to respond to the current drought and relies on solutions from the last century.\u201d\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nthe dams they have now are nearly dry, building more dams does NOTHING to address the core issue - 36 million people living in a desert, the unfolding climate chaos, the never-ending drought,  the ruined aquifers and the coming soon lethal heat.\r\n\r\nthe money being thrown at the predicament is a futile gesture of kicking the can down the road, pretending that the needed _years worth of rain_ will magicly fill them AND the ones already sitting empty AND reverse the damage of dried\/dead compacted soils along with the salt rapidly building up in what living soils are left.\r\n\r\n- this is exactly the kind of thinking that got us into this predicament in the first place, so it's just more dig in & double down, keep repeating the same mistakes as things slow turn to burning hell\r\n\r\nI check the various 'progressive' websites with their wedge issues, corporate media echo fluff pieces, spectacles and if-it-bleads-it-leads worthless distractions, and the unfolding climate chaos is barely mentioned, and even then we get the business-as-usual fragmented never-connect-the-dots, solf pedaled version like the above story.  People seem to be actively ignoring this reality and these websites - like corporations - only seem to care about the bottom line, page views, to hell with reality.\r\n\r\nyet reality is what's doing us in..\r\n\r\nthis is why climate chaos is ALL I talk about\/present on community affairs, even though we're not facing any immediate impacts here locally so far.  I see this dynamic playing out everywhere capitalism has infected - the active denial, the willful ignorance and the magical thinking, so when the impacts spread here, I want to be well practiced in the fine art of getting through to people despite the pathology induced by capitalism.  The more people think they've got a good thing happening the stronger the denial, so while this area (mid-west) is a hotbed of tea bagging war criminal southern hospitality, the denial runs even stronger on the west coast I see, because california is 'the place to be'.\r\n\r\nnot for long\r\n\r\n","author":"crazy_inventor","parent_id":265067,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-08-16 02:31:53","modified":"2014-08-16 02:31:53","fileurl":""}]}