Posted on 05/03/2019 10:24:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change caused by humans could have caused droughts as far back as 1900, according to a study.
Scientists looked at data on the climate, as well as on tree rings dating back up to 900 years, giving an insight into moisture levels in soil over a long period of time.
In research published in the journal Nature, the team showed that as the amount of greenhouse gasses pumped into the atmosphere rose following the industrial revolution, droughts spiked between 1900 and 1949.
“The human consequences of this, particularly drying over large parts of North America and Eurasia, are likely to be severe,” the authors warned.
They said more research is needed to prove whether greenhouse gas emissions cause droughts, and to explore the interplay between this phenomenon and aerosols.
Lead author Kate Marvel, a climate modeler at Goddard and Columbia University, said: "If we don't see [droughts] coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right.
"But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Must’ve been all those gas guzzling model t’s that Ford produced a few years later.
As we experience the wettest Spring I’ve seen in 50 years of working outdoors
“But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon”
Soon! Real soon now!
This kid is Big Smarty Pants
We just had 3 years of maximum precip winters in California - no drought anywhere in the state except for mildly dry conditions in the Southernmost deserts...where it’s always dry...cuz you know...it’s a desert!
So how smart do you have to be to realize that it’s gonna be a bit dryer for the next few years as that part of the cycle kicks in?
Oh, wait. Gas lighting was all the rage back then. It’s all gaslighting. Been gaslighting ever since.
Man-made global warming is responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 65,000,000 years ago.
Here, in western MD, it’s only more of the same.
It’s has rained every few days for the last 5 years.
No such thing as “summer” anymore, either.
I feel like I’m living in a Bradbury short story.
I believe in Global Wetting.
Ingrid Bergman wept...
If man could have actually affected it in 1900 at those population numbers, we would not exist today.
Total bull stuff!
Correlation is not causation.
But all the Greenies have is correlation. It could be with getting hotter or getting colder - they really don’t care. In either case they offer the same solution Karl Marx would.
As the expansion of the universe continues it cools down. But man-made warming may reverse this trend and cause the universe to contract again. Eventually the entire universe will be so hot that it will collapse back into an infinitely dense singularity. That is why we need to switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.
That and preserving the delicate habitats of the Nurovian leaping lemurs.
The anti-science/anti-climate science crowd, relying on their multi-decade mass indoctrination campaign, and motivated by dreams of centralized global socialist/totalitarianism, have successfully created a system of pretzal logic, which would demand belief compliance, that if the entire earth froze over, and the oceans froze over, it would be as a result of global warming.
Buffalo Farts, millions upon millions of bison stampeding across the plains farting up a storm wherever they stomped.
Apparently the term “study” now means “wild conjecture.”
Or was it pretzel logic...
Scientists? No, this isn’t science. This is guesswork. Wishful thinking.
This just in: Man-made Climate Change caused Roman senators to murder Caesar.
Or drier.
Whatever.
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