[SampleMan]

Can they provide a list of weather conditions that would not be consistent with climate change? Perfectly average days, nights, and seasons? Has that ever occurred in the past at any time?

When every possible outcome proves your theory, you are have a flawed premise.

[M Kehoe]

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.

Of course. Global climate change is a fact. It's been happening for about 4 billion years.

If anyone thinks, reading this article, that mankind has ANYTHING to do with global climate change, then they are an idiot.

5.56mm

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I apologize as a fellow Iowan who completely rejects this fiction. How the heck would they know? This is probably the same crowd who believes the earth is gazillions of years old so if they only have stats of the last 100 years of so, they have no clue why we had the drought.

What will they say when we get the next flood? Oh, yea, that's climate change, too. How convenient.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Betcha everyone of these Einsteins voted Obama.

[BatGuano]

FLASH NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! Below freezing precipitation causes SNOW! SHEESH, I am getting tired of the pseudoscience BS!

[SandRat]

I think those “Iowa Scientists” have been studying the Moonshine too long.

[bigbob]

Climate Change is the new word for “weather”

[Repeal 16-17]

Global Warming/Climate Change causes extreme heat, cold, flooding, and drought. All weather is a sign of it and it's all caused by humanity. That means the only way to end it is human extinction. [/sarc]

Liberals are closest thing we have to Cylons.

[GOPJ]

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.

Or maybe they wanted to release this information before the drought ended...

Then again they have a point - there's never been a drought before... I'm surprised we even have a word for such an event.

[cornfedcowboy]

This drought has me concerned. We have never had a drought in Iowa before....................oh wait. Nevermind.

[elpadre]

climate change has been going on since the time of creation - before there was ever a smaoke stack.

Mother Nature is going to do her own thing - believe it!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"The drought is sort of a teachable moment," said Jerry Schnoor

Uh, Jerr, being a drought, it's longer than a moment...maybe a "teachable few years."

Also, isn't it about time you finally quit using that banal, trite, and thoroughly worn-out bromide?

[Venturer]

It gets dry here every year in August,it just started early this year.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Iowa scientists: Drought a sign of climate change

Yes, and if you Einstein wannabees take a look, the climate has been changing since the beginning of time.

[vpintheak]

I commented to my wife jsut the other night. PBS was showing a documentary on the Dustbowl. I said to her, I’ll bet if conditions like that existed today, they would say “Globull warming!”. Looks like I was right. What a laod of BULL!

[muskah]

You would think that scientists would take a look at the data before signing a document like this. Turns out that Iowa has been seeing a steady trend of increasing annual precip since 1895. (like a lot of other states!!)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html

[familyop]

Yes, the drought is real. But it’s not man made. It has crept northward over the Rockies now, over 39 degrees. This is also solar max, probably during an extended minimum: interesting situation. Look for more radical fluctuations with maybe some cold surprises (also fluctuations—not the ice age of funny stories) in about 4-6 years.

[redgolum]

I would invite the good professor to take a trip to New Mexico.

The Navajo Indians moved to New Mexico 500 years ago.. because of a massive drought in Iowa.

The loess hills in western Iowa are sand dunes... from when Iowa was a desert.

I would ask that the dear professor study a little more history before talking out his a$$.

[Figment]

I’m sure if we give more taxpayer subsidies to corn, everything would be better