Causes Of California Drought

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Water is an essential factor for survival for all species and the number one ingredient to sustain life, without water nothing would survive. As many Californians already know – or should know by now – California is in a severe drought as of 2012 and has been in a drought for the past 100 years and so on. California has a “Mediterranean” climate where it has a concentrated rainy season followed by a long dry season. For the fourth year in a row the rainy period has not begun, and as Griffin and Anchukaitis state, “the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years.” Now the question is, is the current severe drought due to manmade global warming or due to natural causes in the weather patterns? While natural causes do sound