California Drought Update April 23, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert I urge readers to watch the seven minute video from LaRouche PAC, “Water for the Future,” a first in a series, which demonstrates that the water to solve California’s drought crisis IS there, it just needs to be developed. The “solutions”…

California Drought Update by Patrick Ruckert April 16, 2015 For the most thorough and solution oriented development this week, see the April 17 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, which devotes an entire issue to “The Drought and The Presidency.” http://larouchepub.com/eiw/private/2015/2015_10-19/2015-16/pdf/eirv42n16.pdf What is the real nature of Governor Brown’s policy? When…

California Drought Update by Patrick Ruckert April 9, 2015   The Drought Intensifies This week’s U.S. Drought Monitor indicates the worst is yet to come. We began the year with 32 percent of the state in “Exceptional Drought,” the most extreme category of drought. Last week the monitor had 41…

California Drought Update April 2, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert The most important development this week is the video presentation given on April 1, by Ben Deniston of the LaRouche PAC Science Team and his new article, “Memo for the Next President– New Perspectives on the Western Water Crisis,” published by…

New Perspectives on the Western Water Crisis By Benjamin Deniston · benjamin.deniston@gmail.com “Right now [california] has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone…

California Drought Update by Patrick Ruckert March 26, 2015 patruckert@hotmail.com Myths, Frauds and Insanity To begin this week’s report I want to mention some of the myths, frauds and other insanities that characterize the discussion about the drought by some of the climate scientists, political leaders and media. 1) The…

California Drought Update March 19, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert California this past week has seen an explosion of warnings, calls for rationing, hand-wringing, hysteria, and just outright nonsense about the drought. On March 12, Jay Famiglietti, the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech and a professor of…

California Drought Update March 12, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert With the end of winter just a week or so away, and with it the official end of the California rainy season, it is time to review and report on the drought. Let me begin with what I wrote in the…

California Drought Update February 16, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert Headlines around the world over the last week warn of the apocalypse. Well, maybe not quite that, but the headlines about the new NASA, Cornell and Columbia universities’ report might evoke that image. The study, released last week, claims that between…

California Drought Update February 5, 2015 by Patrick Ruckert “First-ever rainless January in S.F. History,” was the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 31, after the more than normal rainfall that northern California received in December had raised hopes. Today an atmospheric river will make landfall in the…