We need the rain that's about to come. What we don't need is drought amnesia (via latimesopinion)
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Hooray, the Dodgers areSomething terrible is about to happen in Los Angeles: We’ll soon get rain, a lot of it and all at once. “But we need rain,” you say — and you’re right! Our lawns are dying, the hills are brown, and everyone except me has dandruff .
Hence the problem: The relief will largely accrue to our drought-stricken psyches, not the actual drought. If there’s anything I’ve learned from seemingly one record dry season after another these decades, it’s that we semi-desert dwellers find any excuse to think things just might be fine after a good one-off soaking or a decent dusting of snow on the San Gabriel high peaks — that Gov.
And it might be, but it probably isn’t — but who knows anyway? Global warming will alter “normal” precipitation and water patterns in California in ways that we will understand only when we experience them, because predictions are becoming much harder to make. As The Times Editorial Board noted in a distressingly frank piece on California’s new water reality,Advertisementprevious editorial noted
, if almost every year is dry then that statement is technically accurate. The changes we’ve made over the years — ultra-low-flow toilets and shower heads, xeriscaped yards and the like — were done with the typical feast-or-famine water cycles in mind, not a long-term alteration of California’s climate in which Sierra Nevada snowmelts are accelerated and warmer temperatures extract more moisture from our soil.
As to that future, our editorial board expresses uncertainty and some resignation: “So as we plant the xeriscape in the front yard and let our cars stay dirty for a little while longer, we wonder about the plan going forward into the dry 21st century.”Geoffrey Mohan, a former L.A. Times reporter and editor, has a dispatch on the New York Times’ op-ed page from the Sierra Nevada about the second straight summer of major closures of U.S. Forest Service land in California.
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