Comments by "S S" (@SS-yj2le) on "Water Wasted | What happened to all the water from California's historic winter?" video.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb California has the largest agricultural production in the entire world. What you are proposing would crash the food market and create food shortages. We do have a lot of water, but not as much as we used to. Also. You lot who complain about how expensive California is are advocating we raise prices mire while making ourselves more dependent on other places for agriculture which would hurt our economic production, increase pricing further, and destroy the world’s most valuable agricultural production?! Absolutely absurd!
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More tropical moisture from climate change might be a thing that Southern California could contribute.
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@lesliefranklin1870 It isn't much though. What I'm saying is we are going to probably get more of it in the future with climate change and warmer waters.
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We already have ground water and LA even put blackballs in one of theirs to reduce it years ago. Though yet, not that much help as mountajn areas like Tahoe have low evapotranspiration rates.
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The drought isn’t made from lack of infrastructure. We are definitely getting drier winters due to warmer weather keeping that cell farther north longer which reduces the frequency of rain and snow. Not denying the need for better infrastructure, but it is definitely not from that. It is climate change causing the drought.
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@Bouncer-id1rh We literally have the worst drought in over a thousand years. Also, those water sources are almost entirely dependent on winter rains which had been very unusually dry over the past 20 years. We normally get more rainy winters which results in regular replenishment of reservoirs and other water sources for the rest of the year. But now, we have these dry winters which isn't replenishing these water sources. Resulting in us having to hold out previous rains longer than we have ever had to. San Francisco had its driest year within the past 20 years. It was in drought long before 2019. If winters are not getting drier and we are in drought, then where exactly do you suppose we are getting the water from during those very years you claim do not have drought? It is almost completely rainless in Northern California during summer and the winters have never been this dry in the past 150 years of weather records.
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@Bouncer-id1rh They are estimates based on trends of the past which we have been able to estimate for a long time. No one has claimed they are completely accurate, but they definitely are representative of the meteorological trends that have happened in the past. Tree rings being an example of such among trees here that have been around for thousands of years. So no. I'm not simply parroting. The parrot is the one pushing the conspiratorial nonsense about people lying and are always focused on one's motives and feelings around something rather than the actual content at hand. For California always being in a meteorological drought, that is false. California only has summer droughts normally and that is it. It does not go on for years straight the way it has. Multiple winters without those rains and then continuing to those summers is not normal. The Colorado watershed is in a drought and still in critical condition right now even with a better Colorado snowpack than usual.
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Interesting how climate change deniers are suddenly experts or have “common sense” on water infrastructure. Most whom don’t even understand the basic topography of the state or probably even their own states or countries.
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