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Drought Critics: Obama’s California Golf Game Out of Bounds

Global warming activists and environmentalists continue to complain about President Barack Obama’ Father’s Day weekend stint in the drought-stricken state of California, during which he touted his commitment to combat climate change and then jetted off to Palm Springs to hit some balls on the manicured greens of the elite Annenberg Estate Sunnylands.

More Obama golf (Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty)

Drought: All Boats Ordered out of Folsom Lake

This Father’s Day, dads with boats at Folsom Lake received disappointing news as they were forced to pull their boats from the marina due to low water levels resulting from California’s fourth year of drought. Sunday also coincided with the first day of summer.

Folsom Lake drought (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

‘Silent Disco’ Hits San Francisco

Scores of celebratory San Franciscans dancing to synced headphone tunes joined Thursday in a trendy silent disco for the re-opening of San Francisco’s $20.5 million remodeled Dolores Park.

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Shannon Grove: I Never Blamed Abortion for the Drought

California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) is firing back against attacks suggesting she told a pro-life group that California’s drought is the result of abortion, a claim she says she never made. Grove spoke at the June 1 California ProLife Council

Shannon Grove (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Drought: Lake San Antonio to Be Closed

After considering their budget and the severe statewide drought on Thursday, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors announced that Lake San Antonio, which is located partly in southern Monterey County and partly in northern San Luis Obispo County, will be closed this summer on its south and north shores starting July 1.

Lake San Antonio (Thomas Kriese / Flickr / CC)

California’s Sinkage Headed for Record Summer

Epic levels of sinking lands across California could hit new 50-year lows come summer without any concrete plans to stem the tide brought on by record drought and government regulatory strangleholds preventing free flow of above ground options.

Rich Pedroncelli/AP

CAPS Accused of Blaming California Immigrants for Drought

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a group worried about Senate Bill 4, the measure recently passed that would enable undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on the state exchange, has rereleased a thirty-second ad urging the slowing of immigration that has been attacked by critics for connecting the surge in immigrants to the paucity of water available in the state.

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El Niño: Insurers Prepare for Flood Damage Losses

With temperatures dropping into the high teens, and about 7 inches of snow falling for the next three days, Mammoth Mountain is on track to get its most snow since December 2014. The unseasonal snowfall in the Sierras will not break the drought, but the National Climate Prediction Center’s decision to raise the probability of El Niño to 90 percent has insurance companies scrambling to model losses they expect to suffer from El Niño flood damage.

The Associated Press