“they thought that warming would increase global drought conditions”
Logically, a theory based on a faulty premise is faulty itself. No warming - nothing more to say.
Never before has anyone been awarded a Nobel prize for making a movie to prove that “weather happens”...
(Bump for the Skeptics Handbook - a must-read, must-have tool in the liberal myth debunkers arsenal)
The dustbowl era drought made last summer look like a monsoon.
Has the fact that some extensive sets of satellite data in the past have been found to be in error been taken into account? or at least inconsistent with other satellites' data?
I do agree that the 800-pound gorilla in the room, the basic premise that significant anthropogenic global warming exists casts a giant shadow on any conclusions one way or the other.
Finally, that there have been huge changes in climate numerous times in the past renders all the handwringing and pronouncements of doom and gloom moot.
Going off half-cocked and spending trillion$ in scams and draconian laws to combat a chimera can hardly be appreciated as science or rational behavior.
Increasingly, I view it as a permanent jobs program for so-called scientists who have no desire to get a real job. Or low-IQ rich politicians desperately seeking to remain relevant.
I view the continuing wail of the alarmists about the same as I do the extreme apocalyptic "survivalists" ----- mild to severe nut jobs.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action
Conditions for major reservoirs: Dec 9, 2012
Trinity Lake 78%
Lake Shasta 66%
Lake Oroville 64%
New Melones 64%
Folsom Lake 60%
San Luis 45%
Don Pedro 61%
Millerton Lake 51%
Exchequer 39%
Pyramid Lake 98%
Castaic Lake 86%
Pine Flat 23%
Conditions for major reservoirs: 27 May 2012
95% Trinity Lake
95% Lake Shasta
99% Lake Oroville
77% New Melones
95% Folsom Lake
66% San Luis
82% Millerton Lake
97% Pyramid Lake
95% Castaic Lake
82% Pine Flat