Not even barely. The 1930s were far worse.
Here's the temperature part of it all by decade:
Posted on 07/16/2012 10:01:00 AM PDT by blam
The Houston area if finally getting some good rain. Last year was a disaster for us. I have 2 huge water oaks that are dying because of last years drought. We had water rationing last year so I could not water them. This years rain is too late for them. Our beautiful park in the middle of town, Memorial Park, was decimated last year.
“now farmers want to be allowed to use a banned rat poison. So why is all of this happening?”
Well the mouse plague might have been caused by the ban just saying.
The drought of 1995-1996 was worse. Any FReepers recall starving or food shortages then?
Right now, there is a huge wheat supply, and record high world grain supplies.
It’s called ‘weather’ and ‘farming’.
Ethanol plants are already scaling back or shutting down as supply gets too expensive, and there are no impediments to importing ethanol these days.
“75% of grocery store products use corn as a key ingredient”
The day food died.
Yet another moron and his interweb “research”.
A denarius is about one day's wages.
Ain’t it grand?
A green July is a wonderful thing!
You ought to be out here in west Texas WMR
It’s nice you still have a yard. Lost mine last year with 29 days over 100.
Good grief! Weather comes and goes and has for millenia. You remind me of a barbarian: “The gods are angry! We must find someone to sacrifice!” Hot, cold, wet, dry, and in between: The weather is what it’s always been— it’s just that “always” is longer than our lifespan, and God’s not any angrier now than He ever has been.
My yard was a hayfield last year. I just picked some arbitrary boundaries after we cut and bailed it and started mowing. Presto. Yard. We’l see how it goes, though.
Seed is cheap.
In Eastern Colorado the fields are brown, except for the very few that have been watered via well water. Corn is only knee high in most fields.
Just a part of God’s judgement upon this country for rejecting Him. Much worse to come.
Maybe it’s global warming, maybe it’s not, but what we do know is that whatever it is, isn’t because of Man.
We can expect a lot worse and it is coming...
yeah rocko denied our petition for disaster assistance in our drought last year so F the midwest.
With regard to the map shown above, I live in Boise ID. The map shows Boise area to be “abnormally dry”. Actually, Boise is 2 1/2 inches of precip above normal so far this year, and was exactly on average for annual precip. in 2011.
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