> crippling drought...
> cancel[ed] their pollination contracts...
> couldn't get water to irrigate their
> [almond] orchards.
Given that so much of the water that irrigates the Central Valley falls as
snow, the general trend of "less snow" seems problematic.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110609-global-warming-rocky-
mountain-colorado-snowpack-melting/
http://tinyurl.com/3uy2xj7
My cousins who make skis took their company private a few years ago rather
than see stock values thrash every time a story on global warming came out.
Even the NY Times is worried:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.htmlhttp://tinyurl.com/n26gmu9
The original "central valley" ranged from desert to grassland. Golden Gate
Park in San Francisco was a sand dune before they built the windmills.
Perhaps there is a limit to how much agriculture the valley can support.
But almonds take less water than many other crops, such as tomatoes, so the
last gasp of the Central Valley before it returns to looking more like Death
Valley may actually increase the almond acreage, after the current drought
eases a bit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553295/The-view-NASA-reveals-shocki
ng-impact-Californias-worst-drought-history.html
http://tinyurl.com/kl8of7d
And the valley is once again sinking from the removal of deep groundwater,
causing leaking aqueducts.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5142/
But here in NYC, there is ice in the East River, something not seen for a
while. The video below is from Pier 1 in Brooklyn, looking across the river
towards lower Manhattan. The ice moves in and out with the tides:
http://www.nicholasstango.com/post/74290547214/january-23rd-2014http://tinyurl.com/oo58yyd
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