March 21, 2019
Global Warming causing more droughts in the U.S.? Nyet!
From CO2 Science:
Taking their findings a step further, Mo and Lettenmaier next filtered the data presented in Figure 1 to examine severe drought events that covered 50% of the continental USA for a period of six months or longer. Analyses of these data revealed that (1) severe drought events were chiefly located in the central USA, (2) "the 2012 drought event was not unique," considering that there were "16 great drought events in the 98 years of record [they] analyzed," (3) "great droughts occurred less often, and events were less severe as time progressed" and (4) all but two of the 16 great drought events occurred in the first half of the record.
Well, welll, well.
The researchers, K.C. Mo and D.I. Lettenmaier, recently published their findings in Journal of Hydrometeorology. Their study examined well:
What I find interesting is that we have neither drought nor flooding, either condition is predicted by climate models. Yes, in some areas there has been each, but the overall value is neutral. And what flooding or drought we HAVE experienced is easily explained by factors other than increasing carbon dioxide:
So, we're seeing no flooding or drought, no warming, no tropospheric hot spot, no heat sink in the oceans, no ice cap melt. It's a strange planetary emergency, isn't it?
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