The Relocation of People
Climate Change is Partly to Blame - but Not in the Way you Might Think
The people are leaving and the precipitation is coming. Several times, I cite 1996 and 2016 just as a couple of examples where the California government and the climate change alarmists predicted the “unending drought”. In 2016 there was a battle cry between central-valley farmers needing irrigation waters and the environmental zealots that implied the water was dire in saving the delta smelt. Climate change was to blame for all of it – then someone decides to do a rain dance.
Throughout the modern-day history of California, erosive conditions, landslides, and mudslides have constantly plagued the state. During and after heavy rains, we often see houses that are built on cliffs plunge into the abyss and coastal highway 101 inundated with rock and eventually shutdown. This the alarmists blame on human-induced climate change.
Currently, the snowpack in the states is over 200% in many places. In Idaho, especially among the farmers, we would call that a blessing, in California, they call it climate change. There will be no squabble this coming summer between central-valley crop growers, the people they employ, and the environmental conscience smelt saviors, but that too will be climate change.
While California has been plagued with wildfires for years, many like the deadly Camp Fire of 2019, the culprit is always ‘climate change’. While wildfires are down 25%, worldwide, in this case, climate change must have hit California exclusively. Yet, in their reports on state wildfires, Cal Fire, a division of the government’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection articulated that climate change is not a participant. Excess fuels are constantly being created because of anti-logging legislation, a deficiency of prescribed burns, elimination of fire breaks and berms, and no forest floor clearing, cleaning or scarification.
Naturally, despite the reporting, the facts are ignored and the climate change mantra continues unabated by eco-politicians and legacy media. Many of the fires had the ignition point as downed electrical poles. In 2016 then Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown” vetoed state senate bill SB 1643 which would have reinforced weakened power poles in fire-prone areas. Also as California’s fire investigations conclude, it appears another major ignition point for several fires ends up in handcuffs and being led to jail.
While San Francisco is the 5th rattiest or rat-infested city in the United States, the federal government in 2009, had no problem spending $30 million to protect the salt marsh harvest mouse, a species located in various marshes around the San Francisco Bay area. While the Democrats called this political earmark a pretense, they never actually disproved the claim.
The most lucrative business in California these days is the ownership of a U-Haul trailer and vehicle rental business, provided the business can get inventory into the facility. There continues to be a mass exodus out of California – Arizona, Texas, Idaho, and Montana are all large recipients of the population. California is the state with the highest property taxes and income taxes, the highest housing prices, and sales taxes. It is the state with the greatest number of homeless that spread syringes, feces, and disease everywhere. It is the state that is the softest on crime and criminals. It is a state that will blame droughts on climate change although they have been happening since the dawn of time. It is a state that blames blackouts on climate change rather than its inability to repair electrical infrastructure.
And the real problem is that while Californians move out of their state because of what the progressive politics have done, they bring these politics with them and want to introduce and institute them at their new location. The recipient state inhabitants strongly oppose.
