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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 1421507" data-attributes="member: 1940"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-megadrought-20141006-story.html#page=1" target="_blank">In virtual mega-drought, California avoids defeat</a>The state&#039;s system of capturing and moving water around is one of the most expansive and sophisticated in the world. But it is based on a falsehood.&quot;We built it on the assumption that the last 150 years is normal. Ha! Not normal at all,&quot; cautioned paleoclimate expert Scott Stine, a professor emeritus of geography and environmental science at Cal State East Bay.&quot;The weather record that we tend to depend on in California for allocating water … is based on about 150 years of really quite wet conditions when you look back at, say, the last 8,000 years or so,&quot; Stine said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 1421507, member: 1940"] [URL='http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-megadrought-20141006-story.html#page=1'][SIZE=4][B]In virtual mega-drought, California avoids defeat[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=4][B]The state's system of capturing and moving water around is one of the most expansive and sophisticated in the world. But it is based on a falsehood. "We built it on the assumption that the last 150 years is normal. Ha! Not normal at all," cautioned paleoclimate expert Scott Stine, a professor emeritus of geography and environmental science at Cal State East Bay. "The weather record that we tend to depend on in California for allocating water … is based on about 150 years of really quite wet conditions when you look back at, say, the last 8,000 years or so," Stine said. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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