One-sided California drought reporting
There is drought in California, but it needs perspective.
There is drought in California, but it needs perspective.
Weather is full of surprises, particularly for climate modelers.
"Obscene" megatons of CO2 from China has no detectable effect on Australia's long term rainfall.
California drought was to be the new normal. Then came record rain. Varying weather has always been normal.
Flooding often occurs in drought prone places. So the water that is hurting us is actually very valuable, if we could store it, which is just what dams do. We are flooding ourselves with valuable water. How stupid is that?
Occasional extreme weather emergencies can be devastating, but are also historically normal.
The only detectable signal connecting warming temperatures and drought was during a period 100 years ago, when temperatures were cooler than today. The warming since then has not caused any detectable drought.
It should be apparent by now if global warming causes increasing drought and wildfires. Objective evidence shows that is not the case.
Nicholas Kristof has conveniently rediscovered that famine and drought are going on in Africa -- and he now wants to blame them on Donald Trump (and the over-the-top energy consumption of folks like you) just in time for the inauguration.
Californians just rolled 96 million plastic balls (at 36 cents a piece) into a reservoir that serves Los Angeles in an attempt to shade the water and curb evaporation. What are the plastic balls made from? Oil.
Despite slanted media reports to the contrary, there has been no change in the percentage of global droughts since 1901.