One fact no one ever account for in California is the fact that the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean has been rather cool despite all those out there yelling global warming. If the surface temps remain low you have no evaporation therefor no rain for the pineapple express to blow inland. Instead all you get is dry wind that makes matters worse.
Then you lay out that California's government is a complete disaster mismanaging water resources is their specialty over there. Then lay on top of that the attitude of many in Cali have the this pertains to you and not me attitude grasped by the movie star attitudes of some in that state.
They have natural resources seeping from the ground there naturally, oil being pushed through the surface naturally and the complain about drilling.
Here in Arizona we had a somewhat mild winter, we had a few really cold days with stretches of mild winter days. But here we are winding down May and I find myself tempted to build a fire at night still.
Yea we pump out Co2 in mass but remains at 0.04 percent to this day. When the earth warms the oceans release even more Co2, when it cools it starts to store more Co2.
But anyhow here is a little piece on the Pacific cooling.
http://www.livescience.com/49052-califo ... auses.htmlRick