Posted on 04/17/2020 2:37:58 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new study found. '''
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they are back to blaming breathing and human existence:
hopefully Mr . Musk will find a safe planet to relocate to soon
I remember that summer of 820 A.D. well, Lake Mead almost ran dry.
Megadroughts? Is that why we are allowing so many desert based Muslim immigrants into our country?
Are we bringing in camels and deep strata hydrology engineers from Libya?
OMG, we have to do something, the sky is falling!
That’s what you get from the insanity of trying to reduce CO 2 (necessary for plant life) and try to keep temperatures low as compared to hotter times centuries or millennia ago.
Cold weather equals desertification, warm weather means lush vegetation.
Where is lake Tritonis now in North Africa? Lake Chad has almost disappeared. Libia, the granary of the Roman world is now a desert. Where are the antelopes and abundant life depicted in the rocks in the Sahara desert?.
If we continue with these desertification policies of reducing carbon content we will create our own desert dunes in our own Midwest
However, normal is just 1.6 inches for the same period.
For the year-to-date, we have above average rainfall.
Since 01 October, the start of our rainy season, our rainfall is just a fraction above normal.
Our temperatures have been warmer than normal for the past two weeks, too.
I hope that does NOT mean a hot, dry summer.
No A.C. in my slightly ancient building.
I think the changes in the Sahara (and in the western U.S.) from the post-glacial to the present are more to do with climate changes brought about by the southward movement of the jet stream when large areas were glaciated. This did not instantly change at the end of the glacial period, and so some remnant lakes and lusher vegetation remained for a few millennia before the modern climate set in.
I don’t support any radical green economics or worry about greenhouse gases, but I don’t think the cause and effect is as stated earlier in the thread. When Lake Bonneville covered much of Utah and eastern Nevada in the late stages of the ice age now in recession, the climate was both cooler and wetter than today. Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere were probably lower than before the industrial revolution by a considerable amount. But there is no real cause and effect between desertification and greenhouse gas levels. Venus is basically an extremely hot desert with a lot of greenhouse gases, but Mars is an extremely cold one with no atmosphere worth mentioning.
Those who at least read the opening sentence of the excerpt, even if they don’t cheat all the way by reading the article, should note that the headline has left out the phrase “one of” which in the article qualifies “the worst.” There is a difference between the comparative and superlative, at least theoretically in English.
Though in English, the superlative tends to be over used—and in no time more than our own.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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Moreover, the areas that people occupy that they don't think of as deserts, are deserts. We simply water the hell out of them, but they are still deserts.
Where is lake Tritonis now in North Africa? Lake Chad has almost disappeared. Libia, the granary of the Roman world is now a desert. Where are the antelopes and abundant life depicted in the rocks in the Sahara desert?.
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Actually much of the North African desertification in recent times is due the the muslim incursion in the 600-700 AD time period when they overran all of Christian North Africa. Before then, not only Libya but also the rest of the coast, from Western Egypt out to Mauritania, was the major grain and animal farm for all of the Mediterranean countries. The muslims slaughtered the farm animals but gathered the enormous goat herds and drove them across the lands, allowing the goats to strip all the vegetation and after that was completed, they salted the earth. The area was beginning to recover with the Great Manmade River Project in Libya until Hillary’s War totally destroyed the Project.
There had already been a huge climate change brought on by the onslaught of the Younger Dryas - itself caused by comet fragments which wiped out most life on the North America Continent and in Europe to some extent, including the Clovis peoples and megafauna. North African climate began to change from wet and lush to arid and desert; the wildlife either migrated north to the coastal area or died off, antelopes herds included
Worldwide, the jet stream is changed.
I can say for central Germany...the normal rain periods that you’d have in April-May....for the past five years, have greatly diminished. Over the past four weeks....two light showers passed through (that’s a quarter of the normal rainfall that you’d expect). By July, just like last year....drought conditions will exist.
Last year and in 2018, I mowed my grass a total of five times, and only once after early June. That’s a strong indicator of how things are going.
Apparently the Anastazi ( probably spelled wrong) of northeast Arizona were dispersed because of a prolonged drought. I think it was about 900 years ago. Droughts are a natural occurrence. They come and go just as floods. The stoopid liberals think that the Earth should be a comfortable 72 degrees with enough rain to water the lawn and snow in the mountains so they can shred the slopes. Fricken morons.
It's the worst in 120,000 years!
Get it right!
I believe that rainfall often increases during warm periods and that dry conditions often occur during cooler periods. Lack of moisture in the west may indicate Global Cooling.
Nicely said!! :)
There’s no drought in California.
Since 2016 all the reservoirs have been filled. Two out of three winters were record breaking. 2018-19 featured 700+ inches of snow in the northern Sierra.
This winter has been below average but it started out great. Not surprising after 3 years of high snow winters.
So what are they talking about?
“A two-decade-long dry spell...”
Do they even look at what they write?
Dry SPELL? Its much more than a dry spell. A dry spell is a couple of weeks!
That dry for that long isn’t unusual, its the new normal. Get over it already.
If you want rain move to Oregon.
In Colorado we have had one if the wettest series of winters inrecent memory. One of the western suburbs just set a record for most snow ever during the winter season. All of Colorado has had above average snowpack for several years running
I take issue with the way weather is reported. When it is said “the temp/rain is higher/lower than normal” it should be “the temp/rain is higher/lower than average”
“Apparently the Anastazi ( probably spelled wrong)”
The Anastazi are the tribe Angela Merkel belongs to.
” All of Colorado has had above average snowpack for several years running”
As I look out my front window dreading taking the dog for a walk. 12 degrees and 16” of snow.
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