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		<title>Is the California Drought Over?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/13/is-the-california-drought-over/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Peter Gleick tosses this question aside and informs us that there are actually better questions. Is California having a wet year? How does the snowpack look? Are the reservoirs filling up? Will the groundwater recharge? Will the forests in the Sierra recover with all this precip? Will farmers get all the water they &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/13/is-the-california-drought-over/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is the California Drought Over?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Current Status of California Drought, and other matters: Interview with Peter Gleick</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/02/26/current-status-of-california-drought-and-other-matters-interview-with-peter-gleick/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest episode of Ikonokast, the science podcast Mike Haubrich and I do, is now up. This is an interview with Pacific Institute&#8217;s Peter Gleick. We talk about the California drought (past, present, and future), Syria, virtual water, El Nino and climate science denialism. You can hear the podcast here: WHAT ABOUT WATER? DR. PETER &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/02/26/current-status-of-california-drought-and-other-matters-interview-with-peter-gleick/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Current Status of California Drought, and other matters: Interview with Peter Gleick</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Californians And Their Drought: New Poll</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/14/californians-and-their-drought-new-poll/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[California voters feel increasingly squeezed by their drought, according to a new USC Donrslife/Los Angeles Times poll. September 11, 2015 — As one of California’s most severe droughts on record continues to worsen, more than one in three state voters say the drought has had a major impact on them and the lives of their &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/14/californians-and-their-drought-new-poll/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Californians And Their Drought: New Poll</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>California Drought Caused By Climate Change</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/22/california-drought-caused-by-climate-change/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Human released greenhouse gas pollution changes the climatic system through a variety of mechanisms. Trade winds and jet streams change their patterns of movement, and the distribution of moisture in the air changes, with precipitation either lacking more than usual or being more abundant than usual. The patterns of movement of major air masses and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/22/california-drought-caused-by-climate-change/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">California Drought Caused By Climate Change</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drought in California and Climate Change: They are linked</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/23/drought-in-california-and-climate-change-they-are-linked/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A paper just out now in PNAS by Noah Diffenbaugh, Daniel Swain, and Danielle Touma shows that &#8220;Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California.&#8221; From the abstract: &#8230; We find that although there has not been a substantial change in the probability of either negative or moderately negative precipitation anomalies in recent decades, the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/23/drought-in-california-and-climate-change-they-are-linked/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Drought in California and Climate Change: They are linked</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>California is clearly exceptional, but not in a good way: #Drought</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/07/31/california-is-clearly-exceptional-but-not-in-a-good-way-drought/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The US Drought Monitor produces an assessment of drought conditions every week. The drought in California has taken a large jump over the last few days, with the highest category, &#8220;Exceptional,&#8221; jumping from 36.49% to 58.41%. At the start of the calendar year, that category was represented in California by 0%, so this is a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/07/31/california-is-clearly-exceptional-but-not-in-a-good-way-drought/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">California is clearly exceptional, but not in a good way: #Drought</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Or By Californians?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/07/17/is-the-california-drought-caused-by-climate-change-or-by-californians/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Possibly both. Climate change certainly has a huge effect. Increased evaporation, decreased snowpack, the stalling of air masses that cause more drying and less wetting, which in turn is caused by changes in the jet stream, which in turn is caused by &#8220;Arctic Amplification,&#8221; an effect of global warming, are major causes of a three &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/07/17/is-the-california-drought-caused-by-climate-change-or-by-californians/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Is the California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Or By Californians?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is causing the California drought?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/13/what-is-causing-the-california-drought/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arctic Sea Ice]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peter Sinclair has tackled this difficult topic with an excellent video and informative blog post. The blog post is here, and I&#8217;ve pasted the video below. This is a complicated issue. The water problem in California is obviously made worse by increased demands from population growth and expansion of agriculture. Under &#8220;normal&#8221; (natural) conditions, California &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/13/what-is-causing-the-california-drought/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What is causing the California drought?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Letter From John Holdren Regarding Roger Pielke Jr&#039;s Statements</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/01/a-letter-from-john-holdren-regarding-roger-pielke-jrs-statements/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following is also found HERE on the White House web site. I provide it here without comment because it speaks for itself. But if you want more, check out &#8220;Global warming action: good or bad for the poor?&#8221; by John Abraham, and &#8220;Keeping The Carbon In The Ground Elsewhere: Developing Nations&#8221; by me. Drought &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/01/a-letter-from-john-holdren-regarding-roger-pielke-jrs-statements/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Letter From John Holdren Regarding Roger Pielke Jr&#039;s Statements</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>California, Drought, Pineapple Express, Geological Imperative, Evacuations</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/02/28/california-drought-pineapple-express-geological-imperative-evacuations/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[California Drought]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If water had its way, this is what California would look like: Think about it for a second. Every single moment, currents of air move, slowly or rapidly, across every land surface on the planet. Anything loose gets blown slowly or rapidly, to lower places. Every now and then, in some places rarely and in &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/02/28/california-drought-pineapple-express-geological-imperative-evacuations/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">California, Drought, Pineapple Express, Geological Imperative, Evacuations</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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