Fiorina went on to blame four decades of inaction on building new reservoirs or water conveyance systems, while the state’s population doubled. According to a report from Gizmodo, the rising global temperatures appear to be exacerbating the heavy drought conditions now affecting much of the Western U.S.
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Meanwhile, human-induced global warming started demanding more atmospheric moisture.
Natural variability in weather patterns, driven largely by El Niño and La Niña, determine precipitation outcomes to a large degree.
This finding derived from a model built using historical data throws light on the future of California and how higher temperatures will impact natural forces that are responsible for the droughts in California. And because of the variability of natural climate, drought conditions are expected to come back over and over again. However, during the past few years, natural climate changes have forced the temperatures to become high and precipitation totals to become low. Thus, they have predicted a continuous increase in average temperatures which will lead to the quick evaporation of rainfall and also, increase of extended dryness throughout California. Because of global warming Californian mountain snows have started melting in an accelerated way as well, whereas 10 years ago the melting was dispersed more gradually in time and has helped freshening up the lowlands during the hot season. In this method, California is treated as a grid of 24,000 buckets placed side by side with each of them reckoned as a seven square kilometre area. “Not to say that the drought is directly caused but it’s made it worse”.
For example, has the effect of global warming on the California drought been steadily rising each year?
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Because effects from climate change have been spread across the globe – it is not just that our air is warmer, but a host of other factors in the environment such as rainfall and evaporation rates – it can be hard to pin down what human factors contributed to a specific event like the drought in California. John Abatzoglou, the University of Idaho climate researcher said that without heat-trapping greenhouse emissions causing temperatures to rise, the drought would have been 8% to 27% less severe than it is. Often called as the Triple R, the particular “blocking ridge” has been hanging out over the Pacific Ocean to steer away storms from the coasts of California. This means that by around the 2060s, more or less permanent drought will set in, interrupted only by the rainiest years.
