Posted on 11/17/2012 5:39:34 AM PST by Renfield
According to a commonly used model of drought patterns, researchers had previously assumed that higher global temperatures were causing greater evaporation of water, and therefore more droughts.
But a more detailed analysis of weather data, including wind speed, humidity and radiation levels, found that in fact there has been "little change" in drought over the past 60 years.
Researchers from Princeton University and the Australian National University said drought was "expected to increase in frequency and severity" in the future, but added that currently used prediction methods are inaccurate.....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Back in the early 1900s the high plains of New Mexico were well settled. Small towns were everywhere and every 180 acres had a house on it. People even lived through the droughts of the 1930s.
The drought of the 1950s did them in. We left in 1952 and within a few years most of the towns disappeared or became ghost towns. The small landowners sold out to the larger ranches so there is no where near the number of people there as before.
Some of those folks who went to Santa Fe had earlier lived in Virginia ~ i strongly suspect on ships out in the Bay, and possibly at currently unstudied fishing villages in New Jersey.
When Jamestown was still quite fresh they discovered about 20,000 Europeans living on the Jersey coast. Hardly anyone, not even the Indians, could live in the local drought zone ~ and except for the Spanish mission at Hopewell no one was making records of anything around here.
I suspect those early Santa Fe settlers left diaries regarding life on the East Coast way back when ~ love to find that material ~ but it's probably in Spain.
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Build more coastal windfarms, and store the power in flux capacitors.
In good weather, they will act like fans, and blow moist air inland; but, when a hurricane is coming, turn them around, and use all that stored power to run them, and blow it back out to sea.
/ignorant Lib-speak
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