GUEST POST by Bob Tisdale That’s the title of a new paper by Cook et al. that’s been making the rounds in the mainstream media. The paper is available from…
Category: Drought
NOAA: Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California
Natural cycles, sea surface temperatures found to be main drivers in ongoing event According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California’s…
Worst drought in California history? Not really…
Guest essay by Robert Moore Is it true that we are in the worst drought in California history? Let’s look at the facts for the last 120 years (1895 to…
California trees 'smart response' to drought
Via WUWT reader NEO in “Tips and Notes” – Research ecologist Nathan Stephenson crawled around magnificent Giant Forest, checking young giant sequoias for damage from California’s three-year drought. Instead of…
NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years
A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the…
Open Letter to Miriam O’Brien of HotWhopper (a.k.a. Sou)
UPDATE: Miriam responded in depth (?). See update at end of post for links. # # # Guest Post By Bob Tisdale Date: October 5, 2014 Subject: Thank You for…
California Drought – A Novel Statistical Analysis of Unrealistic Climate Models and of a Reanalysis That Should Not Be Equated with Reality
Guest post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: See the update at the end of the post. In the post The Obvious Failures of Climate Science That Mainstream Media Ignores, I promised…
What California can learn from the Australian drought experience
Guest essay by Eric Worrall- Back in the early 2000s, much of Australia was in the grip of a severe drought – so severe, that the climate community was making…
The Obvious Failures of Climate Science That Mainstream Media Ignores
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale – The National Science Foundation press release Cause of California drought linked to climate change found its way into the mainstream media, with science reporters…
Claim: Cause of California drought linked to climate change – not one mention of ENSO or El Niño
More despicable climate hype from Noah Diffenbaugh (press release follows) who is ignoring the obvious: California has had far worse droughts before “global warming” was a glimmer in a scientist’s…
Study: Southwest may face ‘megadrought’ this century
From Cornell University by Melissa Osgood | Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent,…
Spot the portion of California drought caused by 'climate change'
From “The Hill”, even California Democrats aren’t buying the climate BS Obama and Holdren are selling on drought: (h/t to WUWT reader “Green Sand”) Voters don’t hear the words “climate…
Claim: Climate Change will disrupt the Panama Canal
Story submitted by Eric Worrall. The Guardian, a green UK daily newspaper, has published a claim that climate change will disrupt shipping in the Panama Canal, preventing children in America…
'get a vasectomy to save the planet' guy calls for a Hurricane to hit the Caribbean
I was going to make this a “Friday Funny”, but there’s really nothing funny about it. Really, you can’t make this up. Eric Holthaus, the guy who said he’d get…
Study: U.S. droughts can be explained by ocean forcing
Sea surface temperature can nudge the atmosphere into conditions, subsequently exacerbated or moderated by atmospheric variability, that can lead to drought. In this paper, authors Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,…
Poll: Californians Say Drought Is The "New Normal," But Favor Investments In Long-Term Solutions
Climate Change not among the top priorities per California voters. From the California Water Foundation: Californians believe this year’s record drought is the “new normal” and favor investments in long-term…
350.org can't connect consecutive years, much less 'connect the dots'
You just have to laugh. In their zeal to make the current drought situation all about their irrational CO2 fears, Bill McKibben’s 350.org tweeted this ridiculous comparison of before and…
Friday Funny: New drought trigger postulated for CSIRO to study
Who knew the reason for drought could be so simple? Forget complex modeling, Palmer indices, and rainfall projections, the reason for drought (at least in Australia) is dirt simple. Time…
Interesting graph – Fraction of the Globe in Drought: 1982-2012
Unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like there is no net change in global drought area for 30 years. The graph shows the proportion of the planet in drought,…
Studies: Weaker solar activity means colder, and colder also means drier
Guest essay by David Archibald There were two papers published in 2013 that, when considered together, paint a bleak picture of North American climate and agriculture for the rest of…
Claim: U.S. corn yields are increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather – Data: corn yield trend positive
While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim about drought related crop insurance…
Study: 'worst drought of this century barely makes the top 10 '
From Brigham Young University: Tree rings reveal nightmare droughts in the West If you think the 1930s drought that caused The Dust Bowl was rough, new research looking at tree…
Drought tracking by satellite
From the University of Cincinnati: UC Geographers Develop a System to Track the Dynamics of Drought Detecting drought before it causes more catastrophe: the news could go down like a…
More scare stories: Warming Climate May Spread Drying to a Third of Earth, Says Study
Heat, Not Just Rainfall, Plays into New Projections Increasing heat is expected to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century than changes…
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