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And SF isn't?
by Axsuul 3y ago
And SF isn't?
- mvdtnz 3y agoI'm no expert on the region but aren't people in California forever whining about heat waves and water shortages?
- akkartik 3y agoCalifornia != SF.
- iancmceachern 3y agoWater shortages are largely in the central valley and Southern California. Sf gets its water from Hetch Hetche, clean hydro power too. SF is a very different place in a lot of ways from the rest of California, and the US in general.
- callalex 3y agoYes but that aqueduct is hundreds of miles long and goes through the Central Valley. Once the water wars begin, that situation could change rapidly.
- iancmceachern 3y agoThey'd need to change some pretty old laws... https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hetch-hetchy/hr7207.html#:~:text=Introduced%20by%20Congressman%20John%20Raker,the%20bill%20with%20little%20debate https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hetch-hetchy/h....
- DoreenMichele 3y agoFresno County has a history of actually increasing its groundwater levels intentionally at times. Anyone interested in water issues could stand to take a look at what they do.
- rconti 3y agoMan, I moved from Seattle to the Bay Area and in the intervening 20 years it sure seems like summers in the PNW have gotten hotter than they are down here.
- ti30 3y agoLongtime Bay Area resident here - I haven't looked at the data, but it seems like this area seems to be getting colder over the past ten years. If so, it's an illustration that we're facing not global warming but climate change.
- dheera 3y agoNo, you're looking at just a few years of data on a certain region. When the global average temperature rises some places will get cooler from time to time, there are multiple underdamped systems at play.
- kagakuninja 3y agoBeen in the Bay Area since I was 2, 58 years... I never remember having heat waves in October or February. We also never needed AC, although maybe I'm just growing soft in my old age. "Indian Summer" meant things might get a bit warm in September, then cool down. Weather stayed cool until the spring. This summer has been oddly cool (at least in Berkeley), but got up to 92 2 weeks ago, which is not normal.
- lazide 3y agoWell, most things really.
- notyourwork 3y agoNo, it isn't.