Target California

[EE_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8#t=383

[Dogman]

Do not care who is right when it comes to aluminum cookware. Have looked at both sides of the argument. Quit using it over 15 years ago on the side of caution and moved to s/s , black or ceramic coated cast iron. I swear I can taste the aluminum in food cooked in it, metallic taste, that s/s nor cast iron has.

Look at the inside of most aluminum cookware that has been used for a while and see the pits and holes in the surface, that material dissolved into the food eaten.

[EE_]

California wake-up call: Extreme drought will lead to migration exit and real estate collapse
Saturday, August 02, 2014
by Mike Adams
http://www.naturalnews.com/046289_california_extreme_drought_human_migration. html

(NaturalNews) A shocking 58 percent of the state of California is now in a state of "exceptional drought," according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. (1)

"The drought's incredible three-year duration has nearly depleted both the state's topsoil moisture and subsoil moisture reserves, according to Brad Rippey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who wrote the Drought Monitor report," reports the Washington Post. (2)

All the usual measures are being taken to try to soften the impact of the drought: The Governor has declared a state of emergency, strict water conservation efforts are already in force, neighborhood "water cops" hand out stiff fines for excessive water usage, and people are scrambling to cut water consumption in every way possible.

These efforts, however, will not be enough. The simple, inescapable fact is that much of California is simply not sustainably inhabitable with the population densities it currently hosts. Los Angeles, in particular, is a city built in a desert and almost entirely dependent on imported water supplies for its survival.

1,140 golf courses stand as symbols of a society living in abject denial
California is a wonderful place full of amazing and fun people, but the "California lifestyle" pursued there flat-out isn't supportable by the climate of the region. For example, California currently hosts 1,140 golf courses. (3) Golf courses are perhaps the perfect symbol of the level of shameful denial under which so many of us Americans now live when it comes to sustainability.

Golf courses use ridiculously excessive volumes of water to create an artificial "green" playing field in the middle of dry, arid regions. While golf is a wonderful sport and a healthy way for many people to enjoy some sunshine and fresh air, the presence of massive green lawns in the middle of near-desert regions should cause any thinking person to ask, "What's wrong with this picture?"

I do understand that golf courses practice drought conservation techniques, and they are trying to use less water. But from an environmental perspective, they shouldn't have ever been built in most of these regions in the first place. Their very existence is a glaring declaration that "humans are idiots" when it comes to thinking long term.

California farmers are pumping away their water future
The extreme drought taking place right now is also forcing California ranchers to accelerate their siphoning of water from underground aquifers, sharply reducing the amount of water remaining in those aquifers.

This is literally the "pumping away" of your own agricultural future. Today, California produces a surprisingly high percentage of the food for America; but that production is already plummeting during this drought, and production is almost certain to collapse over the long haul as drought conditions persist.

Farm production is abundant when water is cheap and plentiful, but once the water starts to dry up, farming becomes nearly impossible. California is now facing the sobering reality that much of its agricultural production may simply not be viable anymore.

"Farmers in California have turned to groundwater to keep crops irrigated," reports CNBC. (4) "That has led to fears of depleted groundwater in the years ahead if that continues, according to a report released earlier this month." (Click here for the drought report from UC Davis.)

Here's the latest drought map. All the areas in red or dark red cannot be used to grow any significant quantities of food until rainfall returns:



Mass migration away from California is inevitable
The inevitability of the mass migration away from California still hasn't quite sunk in among most people who live there. Almost no one has thought about how they might afford to move out of California when the value of their own property in California will be approaching zero.

Lynn Wilson is the academic chair at Kaplan University, and she serves on the climate change delegation in the United Nations. "Civilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of drought," she said in a CNBC article. (4) "We may have to migrate people out of California."

Think about it: When the day comes that the water taps run dry across large urban areas, there will be a rush for people to sell their homes and move out of the state. But in this rush, the value of California homes will plummet to nearly nothing. Why's that? Because the value of a home that has no running water and likelihood of ever receiving running water is very close to zero.

There will be no buyers. There will only be sellers. And after the sellers realize they cannot sell, they will simply pack up the minivan and abandon their California properties and send their homes into foreclosure.

Areas of California will become ghost towns, much like many areas of Detroit today.

That's why the smart people are the ones trying to get out right now. The long-term reality of the water crisis hasn't sunk in with most people, so there are still buyers of real estate in the drought areas. But smart people are doing things like selling their homes in California and moving to Colorado or Oregon where water is far more plentiful. Here in Texas, we're getting a flood of Californians moving in, many of whom have seen the writing on the wall and are "headed East in search of water."

Southern Oregon needs to start thinking about the coming "mass evacuation" of California, too. The problem with the evacuation is that California is largely surrounded by desert states. If you head East into Nevada, you're in another desert where water is also scarce. Las Vegas, for example, will also become a ghost town in a matter of a few short years. That's another inevitable reality that hasn't been sufficiently acknowledged by its own citizens.

Arizona is also largely a desert state, with both Phoenix and Tucson facing their own water challenges in the years ahead.

To find water in the western USA, you either have to head North to Oregon and Washington or go far to the East, deep into Utah, Colorado or all the way to the Eastern half of Texas.

The current population of California is 38 million. Barring any miracle technology breakthrough in ocean water desalination, I'm guessing the state can likely only support about 10 million people in terms of a sustainable water supply. That means perhaps 28 million people will have to leave California and find homes somewhere else. They will be doing this at a time when nobody is buying their California properties, but they still owe money to the banks on those properties.

The net result is a mass human migration wave combined with a wave of home loan defaults as homeowners abandon their properties and walk away.

The drought, you see, will ultimately lead to a banking crisis, not just a food crisis.

Sources for this article include:
(1) http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

(2) http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati...

(3) http://www.golflink.com/golf-courses/state.a...

(4) http://www.cnbc.com/id/101884085#.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046289_california_extreme_drought_human_migration. html#ixzz3Ax7cHEZe

[EE_]

How California's extreme drought will lead to a wave of earthquakes
Monday, August 18, 2014 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) With about 60 percent of the state now limping through the worst categorical level of drought on record, California faces an unprecedented water crisis that, besides triggering shortages, stands to greatly influence the availability of fresh produce nationwide. And as far as its own residents and the residents of nearby states are concerned, there is an additional threat also waiting in the wings: the increased likelihood of earthquakes.

A new study published in the journal Nature raises some serious questions about the stability of California now that underground aquifers are plunging to record lows. All throughout the Central Valley, which grows most of the nation's lettuce, almonds and other produce, more water is being pumped out of the ground than is being put back in, a phenomenon that researchers say is causing the ground to shift.

According to a team of geologists led by Colin B. Amos from Western Washington University, the subterranean landscape beneath the earth, also known as the lithosphere, is literally separating from the land on top throughout California. The California Coast Ranges, the Tehachapi Mountains, and the southern Sierra Nevada, says TakePart's Chris Clarke, are rising by as much as three millimeters per year, or roughly an inch every 10 years.

A series of 500 GPS recorders carefully placed throughout the Central Valley and its surrounding mountains revealed that the water table throughout the area is rapidly dwindling. This means that the 176 billion-ton water load that normally holds down the lithosphere is becoming increasingly lighter, resulting in a land separation that, historically speaking, has made the ground more prone to seismic activity.

"Groundwater pumping unburdens the lithosphere," said William Hammond, a geologist at the University of Nevada and co-author of the study, as quoted by TakePart. "When you pump that much groundwater, the load gets taken away and the landscape essentially bounces up. The Sierra Nevada is rising more quickly as a result of groundwater pumping in the Great Valley."

2011 earthquake in Spain caused by water overdrafts, say scientists
Back in 2011, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that rocked Lorca, Spain, killing 10 people and causing extensive infrastructure damage, was found to have been caused by the overdraft of water from local aquifers. A cohort of researchers determined that, based on the fault slip pattern and movement of land at the surface, changes in aquifer volumes were the most likely cause of the quake.

"The area of fault slip correlates well with the pattern of positive Coulomb stress change that we calculate to result from the extraction of groundwater in a nearby basin aquifer," wrote the authors of a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. "Our results imply that anthropogenic activities could influence how and when earthquakes occur."

In the Central Valley, a similar phenomenon has been documented in relation to when the most water is drawn from underground aquifers to nourish crops. In the late summer and early fall, according to geologists, the Parkfield section of the infamous San Andreas Fault system typically experiences increased seismic activity exceeding 1.25 magnitude or higher, which is also the time when the most water is drawn.

"That seasonal change means loading and unloading on the lithosphere," added Hammond. "The earth flexes up and down, and small earthquakes seem to respond to that."

Sources for this article include:

http://www.takepart.com

http://www.nature.com

http://www.bbc.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046503_drought_earthquakes_California.html#ixzz3Ax KugCYT

[Cebu_4_2]

There's some comparative pics at this link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569919/Shocking-pictures-California-drought-reveal-extent-dry-spell-relief-way.html

[Norweger]

Hopefully Diane Feinstein will die of thirst.

[Uncle Salty]

We haven't had any chemtrails for almost a week now in Los Angeles, and lo and behold, we have had real clouds and some of them provided some rain!

Amazing how that works.

Geo-engineering is for real. They are fucking us all up with it. Fuck them.

[Serpo]

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-drought-catastrophe-target-california/

http://jimstonefreelance.com/sanjoaquin.html

[EE_]

Oh No!

California's Historic Drought May Run Breweries Dry
By Ian Cull

NBC Bay Area's Ian Cull examines how California's severe drought can affect the taste, production and price of beer.
Saturday, Aug 2, 2014 • Updated at 4:28 PM PDT

Hops, barley, and malt are all important ingredients for beer.

But water is essential.

As California enters yet another month of an unprecedented dry spell, some brewers are expressing concerns about how the ongoing drought could affect the price and taste of their product.

"The future is the thing we have to worry about now,” Dan Gordon, co-founder of Gordon Biersch Brewing Company in San Jose, said.

Gordon said the brewery uses 2.5 gallons of water to make one gallon of beer. Most craft breweries use four to seven gallons of water for the same amount. If water companies impose mandatory restrictions, production could drop in the booming industry.

"If we were put in a position where we had to go to 20 percent restriction on the water usage, I have no idea how we would be able to cope with that,” Gordon said.

Even without mandatory restrictions in place, Gordon is feeling the effects of the drought. Changes in water can tweak the taste of beer, though the brewery can add or filter out some of the minerals to minimize the effect.

"What we notice is when the water supply gets a lot lower, the hardness of the water increases and that's absolutely been an indicator that we're running low,” Gordon said.

The concern is statewide. The California Craft Brewer’s Association Executive Director Tom McCormick fears if the drought continues for another two to three years, prices would jump.

"The industry has been good about water conservation in the past, but I think we need to get better. This year, we're learning to do that,” McCormick said.

California has more than 460 craft breweries. All are hoping those essential ingredients will be abundant for years to come.

"We have to prioritize. Swimming pools may have to go empty, lawns may have to go empty, but we got to keep brewing beer," Gordon said with a laugh. "We're going to have a lot of angry people out there.”
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Tapped-Out-Breweries-May-Run-Dry-During-Californias-Drought-269495171.html


See Lake Oroville here: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/california-drought-crisis-takes-toll-lake-oroville-n185001

[BrewTech]

Do not care who is right when it comes to aluminum cookware. Have looked at both sides of the argument. Quit using it over 15 years ago on the side of caution and moved to s/s , black or ceramic coated cast iron. I swear I can taste the aluminum in food cooked in it, metallic taste, that s/s nor cast iron has.

Look at the inside of most aluminum cookware that has been used for a while and see the pits and holes in the surface, that material dissolved into the food eaten.

Every wonder why all commercial brewing equipment is made out of SS, and NEVER aluminum?

Yeah, that's why...

[BrewTech]

Even without mandatory restrictions in place, Gordon is feeling the effects of the drought. Changes in water can tweak the taste of beer, though the brewery can add or filter out some of the minerals to minimize the effect.

"What we notice is when the water supply gets a lot lower, the hardness of the water increases and that's absolutely been an indicator that we're running low,” Gordon said.

This is something I have been dealing with, and has been brought up at the guild meetings.

I, unfortunately, don't have an easy (or hard) way to deal with it, not having a lot of technology to work with. I just have to make adjustments recipe-wise to compensate. It sucks.

[General of Darkness]

We haven't had any chemtrails for almost a week now in Los Angeles, and lo and behold, we have had real clouds and some of them provided some rain!

Amazing how that works.

Geo-engineering is for real. They are fucking us all up with it. Fuck them.

YUP, nice catch Uncle Salty.