{"id":1803138,"date":"2023-01-12T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803138"},"modified":"2023-01-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:49:45","slug":"thanks-to-radical-environmentalists-not-even-a-bomb-cyclone-can-fix-californias-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thanks-to-radical-environmentalists-not-even-a-bomb-cyclone-can-fix-californias-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To Radical Environmentalists, Not Even A \u2018Bomb Cyclone\u2019 Can Fix California\u2019s Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthanks-to-radical-environmentalists-not-even-a-bomb-cyclone-can-fix-californias-drought%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Poseidon answered California\u2019s prolonged drought crisis with a \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d Pouring enough water on the state temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-weather-california-droughts-storms-04a759ff7f9db227d226ce098ad62b6d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Refill<\/a> residents\u2019 parched reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>The single cyclone on its own still doesn\u2019t come close to accomplishing long-term alleviation of California\u2019s seemingly chronic water shortage. Even after snowstorms have covered the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a drought-free future would require years without above-average precipitation. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/09\/california-atmospheric-river-storm-flooding-winds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record rainfall<\/a> It does provide short-term relief. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/states\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to the U.S. Drought Monitor, California\u2019s surface area that\u2019s under drought conditions has dropped to just more than 71 percent since the storm hit, down from 85 percent a month ago. This number could have been much higher if California was better prepared to take advantage of the gift from heaven. <\/p>\n<p>California hasn\u2019t built a new dam in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/entertainment\/television\/programs\/why-guy-question\/california-dam-built-store-water-drought\/103-f259fe53-e483-4203-a939-8f13f58941d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four decades<\/a>. A total of approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-rainwater-lost-wet-winter-california-20190220-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">80 percent<\/a> of the state\u2019s winter rainwater is annually wasted. Most of this week\u2019s precipitation is finding its way back to the Pacific, where environmentalists have blocked <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/10\/the-american-west-is-running-out-of-water-will-california-desalinate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">efforts to desalinate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/31\/how-to-turn-desalination-waste-from-burden-to-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How To Turn Desalination Waste From Burden To Profit<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In August, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/localtoday.news\/ca\/newsom-says-it-takes-an-absurdly-amount-of-time-for-new-water-projects-22484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feigned outrage <\/a>over the state\u2019s slow progress on water storage. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time to get these dam projects (like Sites Reservoir) is ridiculous, absurd and somewhat comedic,\u201d Newsom stated in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Sites Reservoir is located west from the Sacramento Valley. It has been in the planning stages for some time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appeal-democrat.com\/colusa_sun_herald\/sites-reservoir-awarded-80m-in-fed-funds\/article_a283d97c-8d57-11ed-a6f0-07443ad7a297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More than 60 years<\/a>If the above had been completed, the location would have stored excess flow from Sacramento River. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Shellenberger is the founder and initiator of <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelshellenberger.substack.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public<\/a>Substack magazine, Shellenberger, blamed Newsom for slow progress regarding state water storage. Shellenberger stated that Newsom is still held captive by radical environmental activists, who protest all development. He only recently jumped on the topic due to drought pressures. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGavin has been in the grip of pro-scarcity Malthusian environmentalists his entire career,\u201d Shellenberger explained. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t done what he\u2019s needed to do to raise the heights of the reservoirs we have or build the new reservoirs we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American West is prone to prolonged droughts lasting up to 200 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/state-by-state\/west-region.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>According to the 2020 Census, there are now nearly 79 million residents of this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater, it\u2019s the dumbest thing in the world,\u201d Shellenberger said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to store water, just dig a bigger hole, build higher walls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s slow reactive measures to manage the state\u2019s water crisis, however, gave way to a missed opportunity. The natural disaster could have been used by state leaders to obtain a crucial natural resource. But instead, the storm knocked out power. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/over-220000-still-without-power-due-california-storm-2023-01-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hundreds of thousands <\/a>They failed to prevent the weather event from becoming a loss for residents, reportedly resulting in at least 17 deaths.<\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice is The Federalist&#8217;s western correspondent. He has also been a writer for The Washington Examiner as well as The Daily Signal. Real Clear Politics also featured his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California hasn&#8217;t built a new dam in four decades, and more than 80 percent of the state&#8217;s winter rainwater is annually wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1803141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4229,4036,11128,11780,7538,6919,4993],"class_list":["post-1803138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bomb","tag-californias","tag-cyclone","tag-drought","tag-environmentalists","tag-federalist","tag-radical"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}