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…

Permanent California Drought Update

But the drought’s not over!

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…

New Studies Find No Global Drought Trend Since 1902…Global Flood Magnitudes Decline with Warming

With regard to drought, the global trends indicate there has actually been a de-intensification of meteorological (climate-related) drought from 1959-2014 relative to to 1902-1959.

Meteorologist: “No Need To Worry About Drought” in Germany…Enough Water In The Ground

We don’t need to worry at all that drought and dryness are coming in the foreseeable future. That issue we can completely forgotten about this summer, the way things look…

Dishonest Climate Fear-mongering headline of the week goes to USA TODAY

Rarely does a year elapse without a flooding event of a significant magnitude being reported in at least one of Vermont’s fourteen counties or perhaps statewide, making this the number-one…

Is The Dry Getting Drier?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I was wandering through the marvelous KNMI website, and I came across data for the Palmer Self-Correcting Drought Severity Index. This is an index…

Wrong, Washington Post, Climate Change Is Not Driving ‘Arizona’s Water Troubles’

This lack of investigative journalistic honesty has become commonplace at the WaPo, where apparently “Science Dies in Darkness.”

How Unusual Is the Recent Dry Period?

No suggestion that global warming/climate change is the cause.

Expert Prof. Gerd Ganteför Calls For More Studies On The Regional Climate Impact By Wind Turbines

More wind parks means less wind, which means less precipitation, which in turn means more drought and warmer temperatures. 

How a drought affects trees depends on what’s been holding them back

Contrary to expectation, sometimes a record-breaking drought can increase tree growth.

Note to Yale Climate Connections – There Is no Link Between Droughts and Climate Change

The author of the YCC editorial ignored these easily discoverable facts, perhaps out of ignorance

The Case of the Missing Climate Crisis:  Greek Edition

“Given the European declaration of climate emergency, along with the establishment of a ministry of climate crisis in Greece, this dataset was also investigated from a climatic perspective using the…

US Drought: What a Difference a Year Makes

…what alarmists were calling Extreme Climate Change in the US, was in fact, simply weather.