California has had three years of low rainfall and is the worst drought in 1,200 years, says a new study conducted by Geophysical Research Letters. Record high temperatures and unusually low levels of rain and snow have been the main reasons for the drought.
University of California, Davis reported that there has been tremendous costs including the loss of 17,000 farming jobs in 2014 alone, amounting to some $2.2 billion.
It’s not clear when the drought will be over. About 44% of three-year droughts continue past the third year.
“We are amid the perils of the last days, and trying times are before us. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain. Drought, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, casualties by sea and land, will multiply. Life will be unsafe anywhere, only as the life is hid with Christ in God. Now, while the angels are holding the four winds, is our opportunity to seek the Lord most earnestly.” Manuscript Releases, Vol. 20, page 285
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