California Lowdown
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❤️ California. Grew up in Cupertino. Became an earth scientist at Stanford University. Settled in the Central Valley. Adding my two cents on X, Don Nelson
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🧵 The climate change hysteria fad has come and gone. However, the 1000-year-old, Jeffrey Pine tree stumps remain in the West Walker River in Mono County, in eastern California. These stumps are direct evidence of severe, natural climate change that produced 100-year “mega droughts” during the Medieval Warm Period.
California Lowdown37,321 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲 A walk under one of the many, expensive, unused, eyesore monuments to the failures of California’s Democratic Party. These giant structures dotting the Central Valley are adjacent to impoverished communities and will not be placed into service for at least ten years, if ever. Delayed by construction traffic controls, local residents have a front row seat as they watch California’s misguided, High Speed Rail (HSR) project kick up dust and spend $ billions 💰 and $ billions 💰 of taxpayer dollars on unused overpasses that cross above roads, canals, rivers, and railways as Central Valley farming communities are divided by the fenced off HSR route. This particular structure crosses the in-service Amtrak line just south of Wasco. The existing line has been carrying passengers between Bakersfield and Northern California since 1899 when originally placed into service by Sante Fe Railroad. Today, Amtrak connects Bakersfield to Sacramento on this line. It’s a three hour Amtrak ride from Bakersfield to Merced including stops in Wasco and Hanford. HSR will not stop in Wasco. However, Wasco Amtrak passengers now have to walk through an underground walkway below the new, unused HSR structure in Wasco to get from the parking lot to the shiny, new replacement Amtrak platform. The Wasco Amtrak platform was working fine but was newly constructed as a part of the HSR project. Since the Amtrak line and the HSR are nearly parallel at this location, the overpass shown in the video had to be enormous. How many $ billions 💰 of taxpayer dollars will be spent to transport people between Bakersfield and Merced a little bit faster than Amtrak’s current three hour service? There’s no justification for spending so much money for so little benefit, that might occur ten years from now, or more.
California Lowdown39,019 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
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