drought, Tag

Ross McKitrick and John Christy have published a new paper in the Journal of Hydrology. McKitrick, Ross R. and John Christy (2019) Assessing Changes in US Regional Precipitation on Multiple Time Scales Journal of Hydrology...

Climate of the Nation survey shows growing support for net zero emissions by 2050 and rapid phase-out of coal power

From the U.S. Drought Portal And from the California Department of water resources. All reservoirs currently above normal historical average. HT/KK

Drought Panic Over h/t to Frank B, via Jim Simpson. Professor Andy Pitman, UNSW In June Professor Andy Pitman quietly dropped a bomb: “…as far as the climate scientists know there is no link between climate change...

Study picks apart factors that caused severe, long-lasting droughts and suggests increased risk for future Earth Institute at Columbia University About a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest during the 9th through...

The obvious headline: “Worst drought in history was 100 years ago, nothing to do with CO2″

Doyte lives in South Omo, Ethiopia, one of the most remote areas in the world and hard hit by the climate crisis. As Lord of the Rain, it’s Doyte’s job to summon the rains, but for five years they haven’t come. Ethiopia’s...

Audio podcast follows. Bob Tisdale, author of “Extremes and Averages in Contiguous U.S. Climate: Graphs of 100 Years of NOAA Contiguous U.S. Climate Data” joins Anthony Watts on the show. Tisdale talks about the politicization...

Reposted from Fabius Maximus Blog Larry Kummer, Editor Climate change 19 May 2019 Summary: Activists hope that daily apocalyptic news stories about climate change will mold public opinion, no matter how much they exaggerate...

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog. Larry Kummer, Editor Information & News, Science & Nature 22 April 2019 A lesson for Earth Day – A people can be molded into a new form by years of skillful propaganda. This...

Next time someone tells you how extreme the climate is today remind them that five million people died in a drought in 1896 in India. That was the same year a brutally hot summer in Australia caused 400 deaths and people...

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Orange County Register address Governor Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency to allow the state to waive environmental extremist...

It’s always worse than we thought. This article from the The UK Independent paints a stark gloomy picture of food crops adapting to Climate Change about one step below the Day of the Triffids. Popular food crops including...

The wet winter has washed away dryness for the first time since December 2011 LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is free of drought for the first time in more than seven years and only a small amount of its territory remains...

From the “children just won’t know what drought is” department. A few years ago, some genius politicians, spurred on by some equally genius “climate scientists” told the citizens of California...