Wrong, PBS and AP, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Floods or Droughts

This flawed reporting seems to be a sad trend.

Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Drought and More Frequent Intense Rainfall in Britain

Last month the MET explained how global warming causes more intense dry periods. But University of Bristol now informs us extreme downpours will happen more often.

California Still in Drought?  Yes, No and Maybe — Part 2

What is the drought situation in California now, as of this week? You will not be surprised that the answer to this question is: “It depends on who you ask”

California Still in Drought?  Yes, No and Maybe — Part 1

“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…

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:

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). 

Rescued 66,000 Sheets of Real UK Rainfall Observations Refute Alarmist Claims of More Drought

From the NoTricksZone By P Gosselin  Europe saw a dry summer this year and global climate alarmists claimed that droughts are becoming more and more frequent. This is the new normal,…

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…

A Drought in Germany Gets the Media Overexcited

There is a drought in Germany, and naturally the media has gone into hyperdrive to link it to global warming:

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.

Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam

Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar.

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: Global team of scientists determine ‘fingerprint’ for how much heat, drought is too much for forests

How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth’s forests?

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…

Stanford Research Finds Drought Alters Mammoth Mountain’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions

“This really shows how the solid Earth is coupled to climate and the things that go on at the surface,” said Hilley, professor of geological sciences in Stanford’s School of Earth,…

The Longest Drought

Essentially, we need to stop thinking about returning to normal as a thing that is possible

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.

How El Niño and Drought Affected the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

El Niño, an oceanic phenomenon that affects worldwide weather patterns, significantly affected the number of enslaved Africans transported from West Africa to the Americas between the mid-1600s and mid-1800s,

Drought No More: Climate Change Now Causes Too Much Rain

Can you tell what the previous year’s weather was like, by reading the latest climate science doomsday press releases?

Treasury Secretary on European Wind Drought: “Energy Storage … Can Be Deployed”

If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has calculated how much must be spent on energy storage to stabilise a renewable grid, she does not seem keen to share.