Weather patterns that bring moisture are becoming less frequent From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH and the “there’s no natural variation component anymore” department comes…
Category: Drought
California's governor Brown should read this paper about drought – maybe it will get his mind off the bullet train to nowhere and onto reservoirs
Severe drought no longer caused just by nature UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling on drought researchers and managers around the world to consider both…
Drought buster? Up to 10 feet of snow this week for California's Sierra Nevada
Here is some good news for drought-stricken California; the latest forecast model output from WeatherBell suggests that the Sierra Nevada snow-pack will get a fresh dump of up to 10…
El Niño events and drought linked
Current SST: From the THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: UM researchers document global connections between El Nino events and drought MISSOULA – A team of researchers recently discovered that global climate change…
Europe hit by one of the worst droughts since 2003
From the EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Much of the European continent has been affected by severe drought in June and July 2015, one of the worst since the drought and…
Ridiculous claim from Columbia University: 'Warming climate is deepening California drought '
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the department of “intense droughts only occur in the age of the SUV” department, where they apparently failed to take the…
A Tale of Two Extremes: Rainfall Across the US
From NASA Goddard: The United States has seen a tale of two extremes this year, with drenching rains in the eastern half of the country and persistent drought in the…
1934, 2015 – A Tale of Two Februaries
In New England, we could be chanting “We’re almost #1” except we’re exhausted from February.
New Paper: Unprecedented 21st-century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains
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…
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…
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