Posted on 05/03/2019 10:24:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change caused by humans could have caused droughts as far back as 1900, according to a study.
Scientists looked at data on the climate, as well as on tree rings dating back up to 900 years, giving an insight into moisture levels in soil over a long period of time.
In research published in the journal Nature, the team showed that as the amount of greenhouse gasses pumped into the atmosphere rose following the industrial revolution, droughts spiked between 1900 and 1949.
“The human consequences of this, particularly drying over large parts of North America and Eurasia, are likely to be severe,” the authors warned.
They said more research is needed to prove whether greenhouse gas emissions cause droughts, and to explore the interplay between this phenomenon and aerosols.
Lead author Kate Marvel, a climate modeler at Goddard and Columbia University, said: "If we don't see [droughts] coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right.
"But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Agree. The flooding is very late here in lower Michigan.
I still haven’t figured out how all these models predict drought at the same time as the poles melting and adding all that water to the water cycle, which ought to increase precipitation rather than decrease it. Warm water evaporates faster than cold water, after all.
These people have an agenda to fleece us and jiggle their math to that end.
Dear Kashmira Gander:
Hi.
Here’s a very accurate prediction for you and your climate scientists:
When y’all die, the climate will be the same as today.
So relax and enjoy being on the planet.
5.56mm
When will the insanity stop?
And all of those droughts for the previous thousands of years were caused by?
Good grief, these clowns could be upended by a good high school grad of 50 years ago.
Note that I had to go back to get a “good high school grad” given the NEA bottom of the SAT clowns.
Global warming has been pretty steady here in central California. Average temperatures have been going up 8 or 9 degrees every month since Jan or Feb. If the current global warming trend holds, I suspect we’ll be well over 100 degrees by Jul or Aug.
Mein Gott! Everybody stop breathing!
And farting!
Yep, that’s a classic “correlation doesn’t mean causation” mistake from so-called scientists. They should know better.
But then this is all politics, not science.
Translated: They said more $$$$$$ is needed
Barbecuing trilobites!
no wait a minute!....maybe they were barbecuing us!
So, what caused the 1275-1300 AD, a drought of 25 years, that drove the Anazazi out of the 4-corners area? Buffalo farts? Coal fired Kivas? Buffalo or elk driven chariots?
Farming activity here in north central Ohio is at a complete standstill.Most all the Midwest is the same.I should have most of the corn crop planted by now but I haven’t been able to do anything-too wet.If this pattern continues for another month,we will be in real trouble.To compound the trouble,a lot of stored grain was destroyed in the major flooding earlier.
re Buffalo farts; never camp down wind of the herd
They keep pushing the goal line back 10 years at a time.
The latter half of the 19th Century was unusually wet in the West. A lot of Great Plains land, including Eastern Colorado, was plowed up for dry land farming, but it wasn't sustainable after the wet period ended. The experiment came to a bad end with the Dust Bowl.
Was this do to Climate Change? Well, yeah, when you consider the climate is always changing. Earth began warming from the Little Ice Age earlier in the 19th Century.
Not a single row of corn or beans planted here in Central IN.
Have yet to see anyones garden out yet, either.
We can barely get the time between rains to mow our yards, and those that do are getting stuck and rutting up their lawns.
I’m a “ditchdigger”, and we are finding it hard to find places to keep our guys busy. If not for the mud, it’s the high water levels and water table.
We need a solid week of good drying weather before any farmer can even think about getting out there. Even then, they’ll be farming around wet holes
Riiight...there was never a drought until after the industrial revolution got into full swing...riiight!
I’m tired of the rain here in Massachusetts and it’s not as bad as it is out west.
And you might as well leave your roller skates at home.
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