Arctic Vortex
gregladen | February 4, 2014The drought in California is really bad. Bad enough that people are struggling to describe it.
Douglas (below) suggests that this may be the biggest weather story of 2014, and the reason for that is food. They grow a lot of it in California, but those who developed this 21st Century breadbasket did so with too much hubris. Hubris about water, to be specific. It will be interesting to see if discussions about food prices turn into discussions about food availability, at least for certain kinds of food, as the non-growing season develops there.
People often equate California with other…