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"As wildfires roared through both Northern and Southern California, the SF Chronicle reports the weather prediction (as of Nov. 12) is for *“Mostly sunny skies with dry conditions throughout the week for the Bay Area”* (and beyond). California is burning as conditions get hotter and dryer, and yet there are solutions. But only if working class people seriously study the facts, the science, and organize to take power. Because it’s being proven day after day that the capitalist class will do nothing significant.... "This last is what’s happening along the entire West Coast of the United States, and scientists are starting to understand why: California (and the West Coast in general) gets its much of its rain from rainstorms generated across the Pacific. These sweep across the Pacific, drawing moisture from the ocean itself, and deposit that water on the West Coast, unless… "Unless a high pressure area exists right off the coast, forcing the storms to the north. A high pressure zone is a body of air that is relatively cool. The cool air contracts, making it more dense than the surrounding air, blocking that surrounding air from entering the zone. (Air passing from one zone to another is simply what we experience as wind.) That is what happened in the seven-year drought that ended in the winter of 2017-8 and seems to be starting again this season...." Read article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/11/12/california-wildfires-a-working-class-issue/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
