It will be interesting to be in Sacramento next August for the ESA's
annual meeting. Maybe some of the talks will be about the ecological
consequences.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2014/01/21/californias-driest-winter-in-500-years.html
An excerpt:
Brace yourself for California's driest winter in 500 years: UC
Berkeley professor
Jan 21, 2014, 11:18am PST UPDATED: Jan 21, 2014, 11:49am PST
Yes, 2013 was the driest year in California since the 1840s, when
recordkeeping started. But
<http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/search/results?q=Lynn%20Ingram>Lynn
Ingram, a climate expert at the
<http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/ca/berkeley/university_of_california_berkeley/3223509>University
of California, Berkeley, thinks this could be the Golden State's
driest year in half a millennium.
"This could potentially be the driest water year in 500 years," said
Ingram, a paleoclimatologist.
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