Spending tax money on reservoirs instead of renewables might have been more effective.
Category: Drought
Guardian: “Choose your news” Media is Contributing to Climate Inaction
“… If there’s no common framework, there can be no consensus commitments. …”
NYT’s ‘Thirsty Atmosphere’ Claim Falls Flat: Real Data Debunks Drought Alarmism
When news outlets resort to metaphors about “thirsty skies” and glaringly omit factual explanations, they’re not informing—they’re indoctrinating. Honest climate reporting, requires a lot less narrative and a lot more…
Nigeria’s Water Crisis: Why Poor Management, Not Climate Change, Is Drying Up Farms
Nigeria’s weather conditions are unlikely to be unprecedented, but mismanagement of the land amid a booming population can quickly destabilize what resources the nation has. Climate change does not have…
German Droughts Were Much More Common Back In The Old Days, Before 1980!
Four of the 5 driest years on record in Germany occurred before 1960. Eight of the top 9 occurred before man-made climate change was ever an issue (before 1980).
Reversing soil desiccation: cooler, moister, greener
Solutions become clear when we recognise water and vegetation as partners in climate regulation. Protecting and restoring forests and wetlands does more than sequester carbon — it rebuilds the processes…
Drought in the Southwestern U.S.
By Andy May The featured image is a photograph of the Big Bend area in Texas in October 2015 when the drought index was moderately moist. The photo was taken…
U.S. Water Woes – Northeast
Megalopolises need fresh clean drinking water – a lot of it. NY City needs a billion gallons a day. NY City ‘steals’ much of that water from the Catskills –…
The Misunderstanding of Drought
“Oversize plumbing pipes move water inefficiently, wasting money and increasing the risk of waterborne diseases. And water efficiency is especially important as climate change makes droughts more frequent and severe.”
Stick to Finance, Financial Times; Weather is Not Getting Worse
The juxtaposition throughout the article of the two discussing climate change and policy, including how people need to change the way they eat and take vacations, with frequent breaks to…
Met Office Warns: Extremely Wet Summer…After Warning Droughts Would Become More Frequent
Climate science keeps contradicting itself
California’s Unprecedented Mega-Permadrought
Hydrological Drought, as opposed to Meteorological Drought, is the deus ex machina of California drought mongers
The Lake Garda Climate-Freak-Show Disappears… Italy’s Largest Lake Now Overflowing!
Just a year ago, the media and climate “experts”, however, were warning that Italy’s largest lake, at 370 square kilometers, risked drying up – a sure consequence of climate change,…
Where Did That Drought Go?
While it was pouring with rain a year ago, the Environment Agency was still warning of drought!
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
California Enjoys the Northwest’s Water (Megadrought Update)
Two years ago, media outlets were headlining strident messages that California had moved into a “megadrought” and that there was little hope for relief.
Climate Change Is Not Behind Lake Mead’s Decline, Overuse and Poor Management Are
From ClimateREALISM By H. Sterling Burnett With an atmospheric river dumping trillions of gallons precipitation on California and other western states, some news outlets have asked how the precipitation might…
California Mega-Drought Update
Where is this mega-drought they were so crazed with worry about, a year ago?
Germany’s Soaking Wet Drought…Helmholtz Drought Monitor Insists Drought Persists
Disconnected from reality: Despite heavy winter rains, flooding and DWD data, Germany’s Helmholtz Institute insists parts of Germany are “extremely dry”.
Wrong, Kansas City Star, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Weather in Kansas or Missouri
In short, data provide no evidence that climate change is making weather worse in Kansas or Missouri,
Just Believe and Drought Not
If you read a newspaper or watch or listen to TV or radio news, you have heard that the drought in the State of California is one or more of…
Is Much of Washington State Experiencing Severe and Extreme Drought?
From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Cliff Mass It is very unfortunate when government entities provide information that is incorrect and exaggerated. Misinformation made worse by the willing repetition by…
Doubts About Droughts
“Drought is a complicated phenomenon, and can be hard to define. One difficulty is that drought means different things in different regions. A drought is defined depending on the average amount…