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June 08, 2025

Drought Caused by Warming?

This from Tony Heller at Realclimate:

The New York Times says drought in the Great Plains is caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

"It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’
Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new research shows.”

It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’ – The New York Times

There isn’t any indication that droughts have become more severe or more common in the Great Plains.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20240606

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/drought/psi/psi-193408.gif

Tim adds:

At the core of climate change theory is the proposition that a warming atmosphere caused by increasesin co2 will lead to greater evaporation of groundwater/seawater which in turn adds a strong greenhouse effect. All climate models called for a "warmer, wetter world" yet here we are being told it's cooler and dryer because of "climate change". That is, of course, why they dropped the term Global Warming in the firstplace; it did not comport with observation.

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1 Just for giggles, look at a photograph of the Statue of Liberty in 1890 and another in 2025, 135 years later. Did the statue's base somehow levitate? Or did sea level, perhaps, not rise perceptibly?

Posted by: Bill H at June 08, 2025 11:53 PM (Q7br2)

2 An excellent point Bill!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 10, 2025 06:50 AM (wsvuk)

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