Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I have one advantage over the journalists of the NY Times when it comes to covering the current drought in California: Memories. I grew up…
Category: Drought
California's drought situation in pictures – what a difference one year makes
Yesterday, my local reservoir, Lake Oroville, made the front page of Drudge. The photo below shows the Highway 162 suspension bridge and the Bidwell Marina, which is almost in the…
California's new toilet police
Last Thursday in my local newspaper The Chico Enterprise-Record there was an editorial about saving water through bureaucracy: Editorial: Toilet police don’t want job. It was was of those “only…
Amazon rainforest more able to withstand drought than previously thought
From the University of Exeter: New research suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be more able to cope with dry conditions than previously predicted. Researchers at the University of Exeter…
How Long Will the Naturally Caused Drought Persist in the U.S.?
AND DOES THE UPCOMING NCADAC REPORT ADDRESS THE AMO’S INFLUENCE ON THE DROUGHT? Anthony Watts recently published a post about the current drought in the U.S. titled To NCDC: We…
To NCDC: We Haven't Seen an El Nino since 2009/10, What Do You Expect?
This desperate sounding tweet came in a few minutes ago and will be sure to get the peccatogenesists all stirred up with laughable claims of “poisoned weather” etc. June 11 U.S.…
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought
From the University of Washington: Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring…
Climate models fail to ‘predict’ US droughts
Story submitted by WUWT reader “Clyde” Simulations identify past megadroughts, but at wrong times. “This would be a fine country if it only had water,” observes a settler looking at…
New government report from NOAA says 2012 summer drought NOT caused by global warming
“This is what global warming looks like” turned out to be nothing but incorrect opinionated hype by AP Science correspondent Seth Borenstein and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer. From the “we told…
A bridge in the climate debate – How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
This is one of the most important posts ever on WUWT, it will be a top “sticky” post for a few days, and new posts will appear below this one…
Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect
Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there…
Understanding the historical probability of drought
While there is wailing and gnashing of teeth over the current midwest drought, We have this interesting piece from the American Society of Agronomy : Droughts can severely limit crop…
Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – 2012 in Perspective
Guest post by Bob Tisdale Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – Climate Change and Global Warming in the United States – 2012 in Perspective In this video, we’ll examine the…
Met Office Accused Of Misleading Public Over Rainfall Trends
From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Questions Over Met Office Rain & Drought Predictions The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier-than-average conditions for April-May-June as a whole,…
The Atlantic Magazine's '5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried'… Worried about scientific illiteracy.
Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA…
'Global Warming' to Drought Links Shot Down
Now there’s one less ‘dirty weather’ claim for the bloviator in chief, Al Gore. A new paper just published and available for preview for the upcoming issue of Nature demonstrates…
Counterintuitive, models wrong – rainfall more likely over drier soil
From the Vienna University of Technology , what appears to be a negative drought feedback mechanism has been observed. Summer rain more likely over drier soils Summer rain is more…
One benefit of the midwest drought
From Texas A&M University Good news from the bad drought: Gulf ‘Dead Zone’ smallest in years, says Texas A&M expert The worst drought to hit the United States in at…
Martin Hoerling on James Hansen's 'game over' thinking
This is a word document prepared by Dr. Martin Hoerling of NOAA and provided to the New York Times is response to Dr. James Hansen’s “Game Over for The Climate”…
NASA's James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature
From the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing…
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