{"id":1402,"date":"2015-11-16T03:15:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2015-11-16T03:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T03:43:01","slug":"new-climate-reality-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2015\/11\/16\/new-climate-reality-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"New climate reality in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1402 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1402')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_1402').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenfilmshooting.net\\\/blog\\\/en\\\/2015\\\/11\\\/16\\\/new-climate-reality-in-california\\\/\",\"post_id\":1402,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"New+climate+reality+in+California\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div><p>Hollywood has to deal with the drought &#8211; even if Albert Hammond\u2019s song <em>It Never Rains in Southern California<\/em> won\u2019t be true any longer. Climatologists have confirmed that the state can expect a rainy winter. But even if that happens, Californians will still face drought when there comes too much water too fast, This was the case in the late 1990s, when El Ni\u00f1o delivered more rainfall than aquifers could absorb and reservoirs could store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia is facing a new climate reality, in which extreme drought is more likely.The state\u2019s water rights, infrastructure and management were designed for an old climate, one that no longer exists\u201d, state Noah S. Diffenbaugh, associate professor of earth system science at Stanford, and Christopher B. Field, director of the department of global ecology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiescience.edu\/\">Carnegie Institution for Science<\/a>, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/19\/opinion\/a-wet-winter-wont-save-california.html?emc=edit_th_20150919&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=34102665\">New York Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research has shown that global warming has doubled the odds of the warm, dry conditions that are intensifying and prolonging this drought, which now holds records not only for lowest precipitation and highest temperature, but also for the lowest spring snowpack in the Sierra Nevada in at least 500 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In in the last decade, there were more than 80 \u201cbillion-dollar\u201d climate and weather disasters in the United States which are not prepared for the current climate. \u201cFrom these disasters, we can take away two lessons: Increasing resilience now can build protection for the future, and stressed systems are more prone to disasters\u201d, sum up the scientists. \u201cWe have opportunities to rethink the fundamental structure of water rights and markets, re-engineer water storage to compensate for decreasing snowpack, update regulations and infrastructure to embrace water reuse and recycling, and regulate end-user pricing to encourage conservation. In short, we benefit from incorporating climate-related risks in planning for California\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood has to deal with the drought &#8211; even if Albert Hammond\u2019s song It Never Rains in Southern California won\u2019t be true any longer. Climatologists have confirmed that the state can expect a rainy winter. But even if that happens, Californians will still face drought when there comes too much water too fast, This was \u2026 <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2015\/11\/16\/new-climate-reality-in-california\/\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-calculation","category-science","category-statistic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}