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Oroville Dam: Thousands evacuate as authorities warn of dam spillway failure

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130,000 UNDER EVACUATION ORDERS AMID IMPENDING FAILURE OF OROVILLE DAM'S SPILLWAY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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OROVILLE CA — Tens of thousands of people fled to safety Sunday after authorities declared the Oroville Dam was in danger of imminent collapse and ordered an evacuation of residents in Oroville and surrounding communities in the shadow of the nation’s tallest dam.

About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville is one of California's largest man-made lakes, and the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam is the nation's tallest.

http://abc7.com/news/130000-under-e...-oroville-dam-in-northern-california/1751394/

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Reason number 875, not to live in California.
 
The scam continues


Government agency refuses to discipline scientists caught cooking the books

The inspector general for the National Science Foundation issued a report showing that at least 23 scientists applying for taxpayer-funded grants either plagiarized the text or manipulated data but were not barred from receiving grant money in the future.

The inspector general for the National Science Foundation identified at least 23 instances of plagiarism in proposals, NSF-funded research, and agency publications in 2015 and 2016.

It found at least eight instances of data manipulation and fabrication in those years.

NSF officials disregarded recommended sanctions against some of the scientists and academics implicated in those findings. Though many were temporarily barred from receiving additional federal funding, nearly all will be eligible for taxpayer support and official roles in NSF-funded research in the future.

In one investigation that concluded in Nov. 2015, the IG found that an NSF-supported researcher had "knowingly plagiarized text into five NSF proposals."

"These actions were a significant departure from the standards of the research community, and therefore constituted research misconduct," according to a report on the investigation's findings.

The IG recommended to NSF that the agency officially classify the plagiarism as research misconduct, require the researcher to undergo "a course in proper research methods," certify that all research over the subsequent three years was not plagiarized, and bar the researcher from serving as an NSF consultant, advisor, or peer-reviewer.

The NSF accepted most of the recommendations, but it chose not to bar the researcher from working for NSF in an official capacity, as the IG had proposed. The researcher would be free to continue advising, consulting, and peer-reviewing taxpayer-funded research.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...line_scientists_caught_cooking_the_books.html
 
BLITZ said:
******* Trump probably did it
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Blame Jerry Brown and the STATE legislatures - they turned down requests to fix the dam - didn't want to pay for it. Dems fault.

"FERC rejected that request, however, after the state Department of Water Resources, and the water agencies that would likely have had to pay the bill for the upgrades, said they were unnecessary."
 
Spike said:
Blame Jerry Brown and the STATE legislatures - they turned down requests to fix the dam - didn't want to pay for it. Dems fault.

"FERC rejected that request, however, after the state Department of Water Resources, and the water agencies that would likely have had to pay the bill for the upgrades, said they were unnecessary."
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Blaming Brown makes way to much sense.
 
Elfiero said:
Climate disruption, textbook definition. We are just seeing the iceberg on the horizon.
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Rain is caused by "global-warming-err-climate change"??

Jesus, two years ago, we were told that global warming was causing and/or exacerbating the drought.

https://thinkprogress.org/how-much-...s-now-have-the-answer-56ae9e33555f#.j6ceghj7b

So global warming causes too little rain, and then too much rain? ******* global warming - change it's name to Goldilocks and get this **** juuuust right.
 
I don't wish this on anyone. This could be a very serious natural disaster that doesn't help anyone because taxpayers (California and everyone else) will ultimately foot the bill.

That said, you have to wonder how much the "Climate Warming Mantra" pounded into the heads of liberal left created a false expectation that the California drought would last forever and that any concerns about the potential for this damn to fail under extreme high levels of water were just "pushed off" because no one in the California power structure wanted to believe anything but the "Drought Forever" rhetoric.

This is part of the harm of global weather science right now. I'm no climate change denier. I believe there is change. But I do not believe for one iota that the prediction based methods currently used are accurate at all. If anything the last 15-25 years has just proven how bad climate scientists are at predicting weather events or changes at all.

The key to global climate is to remain ADAPTIVE and understand and forecast how much adaptation will cost.

We can never stop global climate change but we can adapt to it in a realistic way and also attempt to protect the world's wildlife and ecosystems when possible.

The greatest positive change over the past 50 years on environmentalism is that the growth rate of the human species is declining. It is not the endangered species act. It is not World Wildlife Fund. It is not the Environmental Protection Act.

The greatest positive is that there is a possibility human population growth will slow enough that habitat invasion and energy use can become BALANCED with our world and slow enough to allow species to adapt and catch up with human beings. For the last 250 years, that has been very difficult. It's not anyone's "fault", it's just the nature of species vs. species interaction.
 
Thing is, we live in places where we didn't used to live. Places where the weather is nice but can also be more severe. In western PA there are basically no natural disasters. One tornado every 20 years and the occasional flood but those are easy to avoid, just don't live next to the river or at the bottom of a hill.
 
Remember Johnstown?

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Ron Burgundy said:
Thing is, we live in places where we didn't used to live. Places where the weather is nice but can also be more severe. In western PA there are basically no natural disasters. One tornado every 20 years and the occasional flood but those are easy to avoid, just don't live next to the river or at the bottom of a hill.
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no natural disasters? it snows EVERY. *******. YEAR!!
 
My ex's family lives in that area. Hoping everything is OK with them.
 
deljzc said:
I don't wish this on anyone. This could be a very serious natural disaster that doesn't help anyone
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Race to save badly damaged California dam before MORE rainfall

Second storm is set to hit the tallest dam in America in 48 hours and could cause devastating 100ft deep flood that will leave 200,000 homeless

Authorities have said they want to lower the water level by at least 50 feet before storms arrive Wednesday

There are fears the Oroville Dam could collapse and unleash flooding, leaving towns 100 foot underwater

Currently, the water level of Lake Oroville is dropping at a rate of roughly three- to four-inches per hour

All 23,000 of the California National Guard have been put on standby to assist the situation and recovery

At a press conference on Monday, the Acting Chief of the Department of Water Resources Billy Croyle revealed the situation had become so perilous he ordered his staff to flee.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nvestigate-Oroville-Dam-water-level-drop.html
 
BLITZ said:
Blaming Brown makes way to much sense.
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‘We’re doing everything we can,’ Jerry Brown says of dam emergency

California Gov. Jerry Brown, appealing to the Trump administration for direct federal assistance on the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway, said Monday that he remains encouraged that the state and federal government can work constructively.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article132550884.html

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maybe they can send that high speed bullet train to help evacuate the people
 
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