Climate change did not cause 2012 US drought, says government report (Hussein guessed wrong)

Guardian ^ | 4/11/13 | Suzanne Goldenberg

[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.

[C210N]

This is what climate change is all about:

Edward Holyoke, an amateur astronomer and meteorologist who kept detailed weather records for 80 years, wrote on June 7 [1816]: “exceeding[ly] cold. Ground frozen hard, and squalls of snow through the day. Icicles 12 inches long in the shade at noon day.”

Weather recorded by Thomas Jefferson:

[fella]

natural variations in weather = climate change.

[familyop]

The government drought continues on the Rockies. Just think...fire bans, recreational firing of firearms outlawed, air filled with smoke, sandstorms soon, etc.

Drought Forecast
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html

[Mercat]

In the 1880s there was a drought so severe in and around Sherman Texas that my ancestors moved from Texas to Purcell, Indian Territory to escape it. The American Red Cross had just been founded and it was their first relief effort. I learned that reading a book about their second relief effort which was the Johnstown Flood.

[Mercat]

Wow. See my post 24. I know that some of my ancestors did stay since they are still buried outside of Sherman at what became the County Poor Farm. My great great grandparents homesteaded there and their graves along with several other relatives are in the middle of about a 6 acre field and the other, more recent graves around them are from people who died at the poor farm. Also next to their graves is the grave of one of their slaves. My theory is that he was the half brother of my gg grandfather but they won’t let me dig him up to prove it.

[lepton]

“A mere 6,000 years ago, Nebraska was dry enough to allow formation of huge sand dunes”

Some have been dated to 600-800 years ago, and hold data that shows that the predominant wind direction in the area was different than it is now.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Libloather.

[Spok]

Facts won’t stop the green movement. It’s about free markets; not pollution. Like every other leftist cause, like gay rights, big labor, abortion and gun control, it’s only about punishing their enemies and gaining political power. Will the public ever get it?

[Jyotishi]

> (Hussein guessed wrong)

Hussein lied.

[justa-hairyape]

It never matters if a leftist is right or wrong. All they need to do is show concern and that is all that matters. So Obama showed concern, whether that concern was true of false, matters not. And believe or not, that is exactly how the leftist mental retards think. Or more precisely, how they do not think.