{"id":41328,"date":"2014-09-04T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41328"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:50:31","slug":"new-study-examines-likelihood-of-megadrought-in-california-it-is-worse-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/04\/new-study-examines-likelihood-of-megadrought-in-california-it-is-worse-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Examines Likelihood of Megadrought in California &#8211; It IS Worse Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140904Uprising_201409\/2014_09_04_drought.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Julia Cole <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140904Uprising_201409\/2014_09_04_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/california_drought2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>All across California, the effects of the drought are being felt. A golf course in San Jose may face closure. Cemeteries are foregoing grassy lawns. More than 80% of the state is under extreme or exceptional drought conditions and futurists are predicting a mass exodus of residents out of the state. Gov. Jerry Brown has announced a statewide emergency and water utilities will be seeking fines from those who violate new water conservation ordinances. A ballot measure in November will ask voters to approve a water bond measure to the tune of $7.5 billion to spend on conservation and other related efforts. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just California that is struggling. The entire South West region including Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, is experiencing protracted drought. Now, a new study by scientists from the University of Arizona, Cornell University, and the US Geological Survey concluded that the chance of a ten year drought in the Southwest is at least 80%. That&#8217;s not all. The chances of what they call a &#8220;mega-drought,&#8221; that lasts 35 years or more, is still quite substantial \u2013 between 20-50%. Even a 50 year drought has a 5-10% chance of playing out. Such a dry spell would apparently be worse than anything this region has seen in 2000 years. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Professor Julia Cole. She&#8217;s a professor in the Department of Geo Sciences at the University of Arizona and co-author of the study on drought<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All across California, the effects of the drought are being felt. A golf course in San Jose may face closure. Cemeteries are foregoing grassy lawns. More than 80% of the state is under extreme or exceptional drought conditions and futurists are predicting a mass exodus of residents out of the state. Gov. Jerry Brown has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41341,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41328\/revisions\/41341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}