The NY Times is beclowning itself again in this article on drought in California.
Despite the fact that a cool PDO and warm AMO brings drought to California as shown by this post (referencing an article by Roger Pielke Sr. from 2012).
“What may be different about this drought is that, whatever the cause, the effects appear to have been made worse by climatic warming. And in making that case last week, scientists said, the administration was on solid ground.”
What clowns.
sunshine hours 
1. AMO has dipped a tiny bit negative
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/amon.us.long.data
PDO has inch up to positive
http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest
A bit of hope for the drought
2. The last 100 years was some of the wettest of the last 7000 years. California has Benifited from climate change.
3. Current drought is puny … Also from the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/19/science/severe-ancient-droughts-a-warning-to-california.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
COLD Temps Deter Rainfall… E.G: It is well-known that ICE Ages created extremely dry conditions – for the reason that the available water was locked up in the form of ICE….! “Glacials are characterized by cooler and drier climates over most of the Earth and large land and sea ice masses extending outward from the poles.” .. ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age