Let's hope policymakers pay attention. I sure am.

Wonder how the farmers are going to do? All I have heard is scare tactics in the media but how are the farmers going to get through this they going to grow any this year or give the land a rest? What about fires?

El Nino is already doing its thing up here with a damp mild Oregon coast so I expect the wet times will start this fall in California too but that will probably be only a short term solution. We used the water up and it looks like climate is changing to a frier California so heavy rains might not fall to begin to fill up the aquifers. I do not know what we can do about such a large number of people that we have drank the water tables dry.

short term, there's really not much that can be done.

Or keep the appetite and try and buy water from us in Oregon? Going to find out sooner instead of later I am afraid.....

I'm hoping the El Nino will provide some relief this fall and winter. Until then it's going to be a rough ride.

and it will be a rough ride for sure.

we need to leave fields fallow and be prepared to pay higher grocery prices..

Going to be rough in a lot of different ways.

Of water used in California. When farming uses 90%+ of the water and are not doing a damn thing different, let's just day shit is more than real. It should NOT be legal to grow Almonds in this state as well as some other crops. The country needs to get real about farming other places and someone needs to stop all the farmers in California from using the last drops of water people need to survive on growing almonds.

...as their water needs per ounce of meat produced are far larger than any plant crop. I imagine there are plenty of industries and habits that might be singled out.

the kind of showers, where you get wet, than turn the water off.. soap down, and then get wet again. (While Rich people in their hot tubs soak, and play in their swimming pools.)

And while the Republicans do everything they can to fight climate change, part of the bread basket just started desiccating, which is going to raise the price of food. And what do they do to relax after all this climate change denial? Try to cut my food stamps.

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the price of groceries is going to keep going up

"There's reason to believe" isn't the same thing as "it's a sure thing."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2989

For many, though, the mention will be met with relief and calls to do nothing. One of those tough calls: If you don't mention it and it happens, you're a nay-sayer and doom-mongerer. If you do mention it, you cut yourself off at the knees. Mostly because most people are into what Kahneman calls "quick thinking" and are, well, innumerate in addition to having abysmal statistical intuitions.

Articles like these are good to read.

and covered with wildflowers while growing up in the state.

We're getting dangerously close to the point where we will no longer have any ability to reverse runaway global climate change.

We are toast the moment the Gulf Stream is altered.

There's going to be a lot of idle snowboards...and all of the golf courses need heavy watering...tourism and sports bring in a lot of income to California. If you drive into CA on I-40 you can see that Southern and Mid are mostly desert, till you get to the Redwoods and the wetter Northern California climate. But that's dry as well now.