[George - the Other]

Not that we shouldn't be concerned about the environment, but as illustrated in this article, all the hysteria is caused because there's too much assumption, and not enough investigating the facts.

[Freedom56v2]

With all due respect, why is this in the right hand Breaking News Sidebar?

[BykrBayb]

How is this Breaking News? It’s a desert. It’s always been a desert. It’s always going to be a desert.

[Nailbiter]

why is everything unprecented with these scientists.

Me thinks they should look to the dictionary

[marktwain]

“Those climate patterns will likely guide how Mongolia develops, Hessl says, because they have in the past. In 2014, she and colleagues published a paper detailing how a 15-year period of unprecedented temperate and rainy conditions in 13th century Mongolia may have led to the rise of Genghis Khan (SN Online: 3/10/14).”

That just happens to be during the Medieval Warm Period, which the climate alarmists claim was limited to the Atlantic, no matter how much data shows they are wrong.

http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows92/irows92.htm

[Does so]

Central Florida is built on beachfront property.

(Former beachfront property).

[COBOL2Java]

In recent years, many studies have sought to unsnarl the role of anthropogenic climate change from natural variability on extreme weather events (SN: 1/20/18, p. 6). Such work is necessary for more accurately predicting future climate trends and helping governments prepare for the most severe scenarios, says study coauthor Amy Hessl, a physical geographer at West Virginia University in Morgantown. This is especially true in countries like Mongolia that lack certain infrastructure, such as enough water reservoirs, to ease the impact of events like prolonged drought.

So...if I understand the logic in this paragraph: anthropogenic-leaning climate scientists are hoping to find "proof" that man is causing climate change, so they can stop the Mongolians from building their water reservoirs. Because man-made structures have the potential to do "bad" things to the climate.

Do I have that right?

[COBOL2Java]

The recent dry spell was the severest in recorded history. But the rings showed that an even more severe drought took place around the year 800, long before anthropogenic climate change began.

"Say what????"

Still, computer simulations suggest that about a third of the recent drought’s severity could have been caused by elevated temperatures linked to climate change, the researchers found. The finding is consistent with studies on how climate change has affected other recent droughts in South Africa and California.

"Oh! Whew!"