Posted on 04/14/2013 5:26:20 AM PDT by Libloather
The historic drought that blazed across America's corn belt last year was not caused by climate change, a federal government study found.
The summer of 2012 was the driest since record-keeping began more than a century ago, as well as one of the hottest, producing drought conditions across two-thirds of the continental United States.
**SNIP**
But the report released on Thursday by scientists at five different government agencies said that was not the case. The drought was "a sequence of unfortunate events" that occurred suddenly, the report said. The circumstances were so unusual the drought could never have been predicted.
"The Central Great Plains drought during May-August of 2012 resulted mostly from natural variations in weather," the report said.
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Why, that would make them idiots - no?
Can we say duh....
Oh, the usual suspects are caterwauling about this report. They just can’t let it go.
Then, when the predictable drought hit, they all scurried back East, or died where they'd plunked themselves down.
The big drought cycle is roughly 80 years long from beginning to end ~ the beginning is drought, the end is drought, and the middle sees rain sufficient to grow bountiful crops.
The big cycle affects both North America and East Asia ~ and to a degree Central and West Asia.
This cycle is clearly driven by the Sun.
There are smaller droughts of less duration in between!
The dry periods in the Great drought cycle can be longer than normal. That's the sort of thing that led the Tang dynasty to EVACUATE Northern China!
Spain gave up on developing Virginia in the midst of a dry spell that lasted from what seems to be about 1560 to 1611. There had undoubtedly been an earlier part to that drought since DeSoto and his men were able to navigate the Southland without being bothered by trees! It was like a huge sea of dirt interspersed with grasslands.
For the most part few humans live long enough to witness 2 or more parts of the great drought cycle ~ which is why you have people like Obama imagining that the current dry spell is unusual.
Not necessarily since bison and elk ranged across much of the southeast and helped maintain open spaces.
I think longer, the last time TX had a similar weather pattern to 2010-2012 was in 1895. My ancestors were here then and some moved back to Coryell Co. in 1895 and did not come back until 1898. "They" say that is as far back as record keeping goes, but rainfall and weather is very very local and even 5 miles can make a huge difference in measurable rainfall. One rainfall number for the State of Texas is a joke for this reason. We still farm (dryland) and have a seed business.
He is correct, it is the Sun that causes these patterns. There have been correlations drawn between Sunspot Cycle and crop production for 400 (or more) years.
Please watch “Why in the world are they spraying” on Youtube. The chemtrail (fact not theory) metals that tankers are spraying in the west are evidently attaching to water vapor which is carried eastward where huge storms develop and drop larger than normal amounts of snow and rain. The evidence of USAF etc spraying is overwhelming but the reasons are “secret”. The metals are strongly suspect for increasing plant, insect and human ill health and for unusual weather causing thousands of hot/cold records set in the last five years.
West of the Hundred Degree Line the general incidence of rainfall is ALWAYS far less than East of that same line. True, that's a result of a geographic koinkydink, but it was that way for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans and it's still that way.
The Great Droughts regularly dry out the East and destroy the West. There are drifting sand dunes in Oklahoma for example ~ they get to drift only a few years every century, but they do drift ~ that particular process was set in motion with the melt down at the end of the last glacial period ~ I noticed sources place it at 11,000 years ago, but it would actually have to be far older since that area was a subarctic desert for many tens of thousands of years earlier.
“Barack Obama and other prominent figures have repeatedly cited the drought as evidence of climate change.
Why, that would make them idiots - no?”
But, but, but, AlBore says the science is settled. Even Obarry says the science is settled. Lyin pricks.
-by the time it's 85F+ in Spearfish, SD , you will be able to hear yatter about "global warming" if you walk the aisles of the Walmart and listen in on the conversations---
I didn't say they were entirely responsible, just that they are believed to have helped maintain open areas such as the southern Appalachian balds.
Are you sure that isn’t just chaff dropped in military testing or exercises? I remember about 25 years ago, weatherman Bob Schweigler on WBZ was pointing to what appeared to snow east of Cape Cod, which was in fact chaff being used in what he called a military “exercise”. There are two major Air Force radar stations on Cape Cod, and either or both of them have been being tested. I suspect current U.S. military radars and their operators need training and testing.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=chaff-jan2006
But...but...TEXAS IS ON FIRE! TEXAS IS ON FIRE!
/idiot parrot liberal
Depends on the era Fur Shur ~ the Great Droughts sweep all before them.
What we call “The Great Plains”, that land between the Missouri River and the Rockies, was originally called “The Great American Desert” by early explorers and settlers. It was only after exploitation of the Ogallala aquifer that that area became reliable farmland.
A mere 6,000 years ago, Nebraska was dry enough to allow formation of huge sand dunes, and the 300 foot tall Loess Hills of western Iowa were built of wind-blown soil from from vegetation-free lands to the west.
II Chronicles 7:12-22
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 17 As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, 20 then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21 “And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’ 22 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.’”
Remember, the earliest American settlers had in their hot little hands maps prepared by even earlier Spanish and Swedish surveyors and explorers ~ then widely distributed through the magic of printing! I've found several townsites in that territory that were undoubtedly laid out according to the Spanish "Law of the Indies" so they were there even if we didn't recognize what they left behind.
“Please watch “Why in the world are they spraying” on Youtube. The chemtrail (fact not theory) metals that tankers are spraying in the west are evidently attaching to water vapor which is carried eastward where huge storms develop and drop larger than normal amounts of snow and rain. The evidence of USAF etc spraying is overwhelming but the reasons are “secret”. The metals are strongly suspect for increasing plant, insect and human ill health and for unusual weather causing thousands of hot/cold records set in the last five years.”
I think it’s probably more important to be aware of the interactions among the metals, such as selenium and zinc, found in your dandruff shampoo, and the aluminum in your tin foil hat.
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I think it was caused by all the lying hot air Hussein has emitted during his dictatorship!!!!
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