Climate Change In California

The drought is not a result of Global warming because the California drought is caused by a lack of Pacific subtropical storms and the Nina ocean current pattern. However, Global warming does make California’s drought more severe in effect due to the rise of temperature which only contributes to hotter days resulting in more inland water evaporating into the atmosphere. As global warming persist and increases California’s current or future droughts will only become more severe. The implications Globe warming causes in just one state’s drought should be a realization of what global warming can cause in areas of drought at a larger

California state and some other west regions face the problem of severe drought and the researchers show several reasons to explain this phenomena. According to research in weather data for the past century, in terms of overall precipitation and spring snowpack, the past three years are not record-breakers and paleoclimate studies show that the current drought is not exceptional given the natural variations in precipitation of the past seven centuries. It cannot thoroughly attribute drought to global warming. California may be faced a future of “perfect drought” because of following reasons. Rising heat increases the evaporation, continuing depletion of ground water, and growing water shortages on the Colorado River [1]. It is predictable

After more than five years of drought in California, we are just now beginning to see an above-average precipitation,and this is leaving many to ask, "is the drought over?" This last drought was one of the worsts droughts California has experienced in history and it left many panicked and trying to come up with solutions. “Governor Jerry Brown even made one of the first cutback to farmers ' water rights since 1977, and ordered cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36 percent ” (Zamora,et al..) Overall California has 39 million residents and on top of that California also grows an unbelievable amount of

California’s continuous drought not only affects California, but essentially impacts the entire food system. Could you imagine an entire state unable to contribute to the growing demands of a thriving economy? As California enters its fifth year of drought the consequences of an ever depleting natural resource, water, continues to negatively impact landscape plants, agricultural production, wildlife, and the economy. The lack of water in California has the potential to have a devastating effect on an ever thriving economy.

California is currently breaking the state record for longest ongoing drought, now entering it’s fourth year. This drought has taken over 98% of the state. Out of that large percentage, over 44% is in “exceptional” drought, which is the worst level of drought. There’s uncertainty about how long this drought will continue into the future and how severe the problem will become.

Due to the lack of rain in the past few years, and particularly in the last few months, California faces severe drought. This is the worst drought in more than one hundred years. The impact of California drought affects community, agriculture, organic ranchers, and dairy farmers. Because of these facts, the United States must rethink the way it uses water. Californians alone are asked to reduce their water usage by twenty percent to prevent water waste.

The golden state suffers from extreme drought that begins since three years. The drought start because the climate changes which cause lack of snowpack on top of mountains that milts and fill California lakes. Another climate changes are the high temperature, which cause agriculture draught that requires more water. The underlying problem after this drought that farmers have lost their jobs and the lakes, which is the source of water in California drought. The draught this year is the worst in the state's history and the water will not last for more than one year.

Californians have been struggling with trying to conserve our water for over three years. Twenty-Thirteen was our driest year in many populated areas in California, and it doesn't seem to be changing any time soon, unless we all act now. In twenty-thirteen, Los Angeles and Sacramento, went down on record as the driest two cities in California. A drought is when area of land scarcely drop rain. Droughts are caused from climate changes and lack of precipitation, resulting in a shortage of water. Water is vital for all living things and is the essential component of all life. This ongoing drought has drastically affected the state of California. The long-term change in climate is truly affecting California. Our water reservations are lower than

California's drought is a serious and ongoing event that leaves a lot of questions. Climate change is a big reason for drought (Valentine, Katie). About 20 percent of California's drought can be blamed on climate change, this was calculated by looking at how much water was evaporated each month from California's soil (Valentine, Katie). California's constant rising temperatures because of climate change and there already natural weather

California's future will be heavily impacted by this drought if things don’t change. Everything from its economy, to the people, to the physical land itself, is being threatened. According to American Farmland Trust, one eighth of the nation’s agricultural production comes from California: a third of the nation’s vegetables, and almost two thirds of the nation’s fruits and nuts. Agriculture is an enormous industry and is occasionally the only industry in certain parts of the state that is going through a severe drought. It’s impossible to grow crops without water, and it’s impossible to make money from crops that never grew, so in many areas the economy would collapse without sufficient water. American Farmland Trust

Our discussion turned to gloom and doom when someone mentioned a recent article in the New York Times that “scientists reporting in journal Geophysical Research letters assert global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions has probably worsened drought in California by 15 to 20 percent; warns future dry spells there will certainly be more severe as planet gets hotter.”

Is California’s drought affecting some of California’s ecosystems? Hopefully not since there are many short term and long term effects of the drought on California. Also, limited water is a big problem in California.

Drought has been occurring in California even before it was named a state in 1850, but the current drought in California has people worried that it could become a “mega drought”. A mega drought is a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer, and the last mega drought to occur started

According to NASA studies The Great North American Mega Drought is predicted to happen within the next few decades (Howitt). California being one of the states heavily hit by this drought and it is already evident that the mega drought will happen. Central California was once one of the most fertile lands on the earth is drying up and the Sierra Nevada snow packs are melting away. The cause of the drought can be directly attributed climate change. The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge is an area of persistent high pressure that redirects moist subtropical air to the north. The ridge causes atmospheric water to flow around the pacific edge of California and move up north into Alaska and British Columbia. Leaving us with precipitation deficits and

Abstract: Residents in the state of California have been facing severe droughts caused from primarily human emissions. Research from Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor at Stanford University, has many Journals and Articles such as “Atmospheric Conditions Associated with the 2013-14 California Drought Are ‘Very Likely’ Linked to Human-caused Climate Change” and Causes of California’s Drought Linked to Climate Change, Stanford Scientists Say both have studies that prove California’s drought is linked to human-caused climate change . Other Articles such as Justin Gillis from the New York Times, California Drought Has Been Made Worse by Global Warming, Scientists Say also mentions that human emissions have intensified California’s drought.