“Drought is generally defined as “a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time (usually a season or more), resulting in a water shortage. … drought can be difficult…
Category: Drought
The California Drought is Over. Definitively.
Blaming climate change as the primary cause for current problems and recent “drought” leads to not dealing with the real problems.
BBC’s Fake Worst Drought in China Claim
Apparently a dry summer is worse than two years of barely any rain:
Climate Change is Not Causing Famines
While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story.
Somalia Says Drought Is Due to Climate Change, As They Demand Billions
…population growth, a ten-fold increase since 1950, is the main reason why droughts like these, which are perfectly natural and common events, now have such a human impact.
Claim: Rising Global Temperatures Point to Widespread Drought
according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Is Extreme Weather Causing the World’s Rivers to Dry Up?
As is often the case, the facts usually disprove the alarmist position associated with climate change. This is no different with respect to the CNN article.
Lake Mead Low Water Levels, Part 2: Colorado River Inflow Variations and Trend
Contrary to claims that drought is causing Lake Mead water levels to fall, the Colorado River natural flows into Lake Mead show no long-term trend since 1930.
Lake Mead Low Water Levels: Overuse, Not Climate Change
In today’s news is yet another article claiming the record-low water levels in Lake Mead (a manmade water reservoir) are due to human-caused climate change.
DEBUNKED: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’ – Peer-reviewed studies, data & IPCC reveal ‘drought has not increased’ & ‘cannot be attributed to human-caused climate change’
the IPCC and the underlying peer reviewed research on which it assesses has concluded that drought has not increased and, logically, that increased drought cannot be attributed to human-caused climate…
The European Climate Megadrought – Which Happened 482 Years Ago
A brutal European megadrought in 1540, during the little ice age, brings context to attempts to link the current European heatwave to global warming.
New Study Finds Extreme, Severe Drought Impacting the Upper Colorado River Basin in the Second Century
While there has been research showing extended dry periods in the southwest back to the eighth century, this reconstruction of the Colorado River extends nearly 800 years further into the…
Claim: New Drought Benchmark in Europe
The drought event from 2018 to 2020 was the most intense in over 250 years.
Claim: ‘Flash droughts’ coming on faster, global study shows
Flash droughts are relatively new to science, with the advancement of remote sensing technology during the past couple of decades helping reveal instances of soil rapidly drying out. This serves…
Too Much Rain, Not Enough Rain
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Drought is measured in several ways. One of them is the Self-Correcting Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI). There’s a clear description of it here. As…
Is the Southwest U.S. Experiencing a Megadrought Fueled by Global Warming?
We are in the midst of a dry period that is not particularly unusual in intensity and there is strong evidence that it is the result of natural variability.
Megadrought Alarm
His own regional research shows normal and wet years will return, but don’t let that trick you.
California’s Sierra Nevada Sets All-Time December Snow Record
Despite claims of drought, they have smashed the previous record of 179″ of snow in December set in 1970! This is the announcement from the Sierra Snow Lab on January…
California’s Wild Weather, Wet or Dry, is Nothing New
These mega-droughts and mega-floods all occurred well before ‘climate change’ was blamed for every weather event Previously published in The California Globe, December 13, 2021 12:44 pm For those wondering…
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