On the recordJuly 12, 2017
I want to briefly respond to my friend's reference to a manmade drought. What California just went through is what hydrologists, scientists, and historians tell us is the most significant drought the State has ever experienced--a natural one. I certainly knew that human activities were impacting the climate, but, wow, if human beings could actually cause the snowpack to be 5 percent of normal and cause a drought like that, that is taking human-induced climate change to a whole new level. We have got to be careful in this debate. We are beginning to give hyperbole a bad name. {time} 1715 Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi), representing the Sacramento Valley.
