Before we talk about the latest manmade climate crisis, let’s take a walk down memory lane. I find the most refreshing walks on memory lane because it always sheds light on the tales of today.
From Scientific American, January 2013:
Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
Huge flows of vapors in the atmosphere, dubbed “atmospheric rivers” have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and the climate change could bring more of them.
By Michael D. Dettinger & B. Lynn Ingram
The intense rainstorms sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean began to pound central California on Christmas Eve in 1861 and continued virtually unabated for 43 days. The deluges quickly transformed rivers running down from the Sierra Nevada mountains along the state’s eastern border into raging torrents that swept away entire communities and mining settlements. The rivers and rains poured into the state’s vast Central Valley, turning it into an inland sea 300 miles long and 20 miles wide. Thousands of people died, and one quarter of the state’s estimated 800,000 cattle drowned. Downtown Sacramento was submerged under 10 feet of brown water filled with debris from countless mudslides on the region’s steep slopes. California’s legislature, unable to function, moved to San Francisco until Sacramento dried out—six months later. By then, the state was bankrupt.
OK before I go on, I think you are picking up what I am saying. I’m not sure why the writers must include in the title “the climate change” because the climate changes everyday but what is the same is 100-year cycles.
For those that may not be keeping track, I started talking about this on my Across the Pond TV show almost two weeks ago because there have been some meteorologists who have been pointing out for quite some time that 2024 was going to see some historical precipitation events. I often wonder why the folks in the Central Valley of California never stopped to think about why all that rich, fertile soil lays in the valley. The reason is because it washed down the mountain during these massive rains. It seems to be that time again.
I was talking about what the true experts saw coming about a week before any media outlets considered sharing the news. Now massive rain, snow and hurricane force winds are hammering the state of California and instead of warning the residents, mass media appears to be only talking about this as a man-made climate crisis. If you understood climate, you would realize it is only man-made if you are ignorant about history.
I am writing this at 12:05 p.m. central time on Feb 6. In the past two hours, I have seen reports of rain gauges in southern California recording nearly 13 inches of rain within 24 hours. The Gabriel Mountains received 17 inches liquid equivalent of snow within a 12-hour time frame earlier this week. If the pattern continues, the next 30 days will be very destructive and harmful. My real question is why are the powers that be just standing back and acting like this is just some quick burst of rain, wind and snow when they could be actively preparing folks for what could happen?
With every passing day of my life, I recognize the best path forward involves keeping a very keen eye and ear on where the world has been, because as the world turns, we find very few “new” events. Now would be a very good time for prayers for our loved ones on the West Coast.
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the views of High Plains Journal. Trent Loos is a sixth generation United States farmer, host of the daily radio show, Loos Tales, and founder of Faces of Agriculture, a non-profit organization putting the human element back into the production of food. Get more information at www.LoosTales.com, or email Trent at [email protected].
