How long can California's drought last? (Berkeley: 2015, university, live in)

[Mattie Jo]

Could California's Drought Last 200 Years?

"Donald Galleano's grapevines are scorched shrubs, their charcoal-colored stems and gnarled roots displaying not a lick of life.

... B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that could last for 200 years or more.

...California is acting like California, and most of California is arid."

[509]

http://http://www.sierranaturenotes....eodrought1.htm

http://http://www.ucpress.edu/book.p...=9780520268555

[Jaybee]

Originally Posted by 509

http://http://www.sierranaturenotes....eodrought1.htm

http://http://www.ucpress.edu/book.p...=9780520268555

I'm interested in your response, but these links don't seem to work. Can you edit/update them?
Thanks.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Mattie Jo

Could California's Drought Last 200 Years?

"Donald Galleano's grapevines are scorched shrubs, their charcoal-colored stems and gnarled roots displaying not a lick of life.

... B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that could last for 200 years or more.

...California is acting like California, and most of California is arid."

Another question is how will Californians last another 200 years if such a drought occurs?

[BeauCharles]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling (well actually it isn't)! The pattern will shift - it always does and probably sooner rather than later (but please, keep cultivating the panic - what would the internet be without it?).

[Freak80]

Fear mongering...it works.

[SFX]

Only if you are young. Us old folks remember this same thing many times before.

NCDC data

[509]

Originally Posted by expatCA

Another question is how will Californians last another 200 years if such a drought occurs?

In Ingram's book (The West without Water) she mentions research showing that the Sierra Indians ran out of food and migrated to coastal California to survive.

That caught my attention. It would be interesting to see WHY the food supply collapsed in the Sierra's forcing them to move.

California will survive another mega-drought. However, it is very doubtful that 38 million people could live in that environment.

Well, they could but you would have to import LOTS of resources at great cost to sustain the population. At some point humans give up and move....however, it takes A LOT to get humans to move.

We do it with cities today!! However, they generate enough money to pay for the importation of outside resources. None of our cities are sustainable today on their own!!

[sourdough]

Originally Posted by Mattie Jo

Could California's Drought Last 200 Years?

"Donald Galleano's grapevines are scorched shrubs, their charcoal-colored stems and gnarled roots displaying not a lick of life.

... B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that could last for 200 years or more.

...California is acting like California, and most of California is arid."

It's the warm blob off the coast that's causing the drought. Read up on it and see what the scientist have to say. Connect the dots because the government isn't going to until its ridiculously late.

[Ruth4Truth]

From the first article, above:

...indications of epic droughts that have occurred during the past 1200 years. These "paleodroughts" far exceed, in both severity and duration, any protracted dry periods of our 150-year-long instrumental record.

What happened to the redwoods during the severe drought periods? Some of the redwoods are 1000 years old. So apparently they can survive extended, extreme drought, contrary to what we're currently being told......?