(Bloomberg Politics) — 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 Gov. Jerry Brown said that the unprecedented drought and newly enacted water restrictions in his state show that "climate change is not a hoax." 

The implications for the rest of the country, which relies on California for a substantial portion of its food, could be profound, Brown said. 

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