Jerry Brown: California Drought Shows 'Climate Change Is Not a Hoax'
The governor has issued new water restrictions that require state residents to cut usage by 25 percent.
California governor Jerry Brown looks on as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Computer History Museum on March 5, 2014 in Mountain View, California.
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The debate has not yet dried up, even if California has.
Two months after members of the U.S. Senate took jabs at one another on the subject of whether man made global warming was actually occurring, California Governor Jerry Brown said that the unprecedented drought and newly enacted water restrictions in his state show that "climate change is not a hoax."