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Iowa scientists: Drought a sign of climate change
Yahoo! News ^ | 11/19/12 | David Pitt - ap

Posted on 11/20/2012 2:22:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — This year's drought is consistent with predictions that global climate change would bring about weather extremes including more frequent droughts, said a report released Monday.

The Iowa Climate Statement updates the 2010 report, reflecting the year's lingering drought and the belief that it signifies what many scientists have predicted — increasing instability in weather patterns will lead to extremes during both wet and dry years.

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The report was signed by 138 scientists and researchers from 27 Iowa colleges and universities. They said they wanted to release the updated report now while the drought is still fresh in the public's mind.

"The drought is sort of a teachable moment," said Jerry Schnoor, co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa.

The scientists are careful to avoid saying any single extreme weather incident is directly caused by global warming, saying too many factors are at play when it comes to weather. But, they did say increasingly volatile weather patterns have been predicted by scientists who study global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: climatechange; drought; iowa; scientists
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1 posted on 11/20/2012 2:22:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought drought was a sign of lack of rain. Been happening forever.


2 posted on 11/20/2012 2:24:15 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: NormsRevenge

droughts have been happening since time immemoral


3 posted on 11/20/2012 2:26:55 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: NormsRevenge
increasing instability in weather patterns will lead to extremes during both wet and dry years.

Yeah! We need to get back to normal, predictable weather!

4 posted on 11/20/2012 2:27:30 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow, as soon as the Left’s boy got re-elected, Global Warming/Climate Change got dusted off and put back on the front burner.


5 posted on 11/20/2012 2:28:45 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: NormsRevenge
Ho hum. What's NOT a sign of climate change/global warming????
6 posted on 11/20/2012 2:28:45 PM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: NormsRevenge
same type of hype happened after katrina.. you guessed it..subsequent hurricane seasons have been mostly benign.
7 posted on 11/20/2012 2:28:51 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: GeronL
You mean like when God sent a dream of 7 fat ears of corn and 7 lean ears of corn? Like biblical time ago?

Must have been those SUVs that the Egyptians were using.

/johnny

8 posted on 11/20/2012 2:29:32 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge

Idiots
Out
Wandering
Around


9 posted on 11/20/2012 2:30:24 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: NormsRevenge

On a micro or macro scale? Zoom in enough and you can lose context. If you look at a once in 100 year drought in the context of 50 years of history, you see a change. If you look at that same even on a 500 year timeline, you see a pattern repeating and the system is maintaining.


10 posted on 11/20/2012 2:31:02 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: NormsRevenge

Drought in Iowa is a sign of La Nina, just like the early 50’s and the 1930’s. Nothing to do with “climate change” (the new name for global warming).


11 posted on 11/20/2012 2:32:46 PM PST by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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>> “The drought is sort of a teachable moment,” said Jerry Schnoor

Ostentatious bullcrap.

The “Climate Change” hoax produces grants, and a sense of purpose for otherwise meaningless lives.


12 posted on 11/20/2012 2:34:22 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Actually, having a major North American drought just about every 80 years or so is a general rule ~ and this one was right on time.

The folks who signed the statement are not sufficiently educated in climate science to sign anything.

13 posted on 11/20/2012 2:35:27 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: NormsRevenge

When Iowa looks like this, call me.....

14 posted on 11/20/2012 2:36:44 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: NormsRevenge

Climate change has been occurring since the beginning of time....or at least prior to the SUV.


15 posted on 11/20/2012 2:37:05 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: NormsRevenge
As I thought. Many of signers have no academic background in climatology or meteorology.

http://iowaenvironmentalfocus.org/2012/11/19/iowa-climate-statement-the-drought-of-2012/

16 posted on 11/20/2012 2:37:13 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Witty saying goes here...)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Dust Bowl/The Dirty Thirties


17 posted on 11/20/2012 2:38:08 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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The report was signed by 138 scientists and researchers from 27 Iowa colleges and universities.

All of whom are probably looking for federal funding.

18 posted on 11/20/2012 2:39:17 PM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: NormsRevenge

You really lose credibility when EVERY weather event is a sign of “climate change”.


19 posted on 11/20/2012 2:41:06 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Gutless academics signing away their integrity for job and funding security.

It would be interesting to track the academics who didn’t sign and find out their job status in the next year.


20 posted on 11/20/2012 2:42:21 PM PST by Rebelbase
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