John F’n Kerry is getting a little chub in his pants. He loves “climate emergencies”.
Won’t happen. Something they never talk about is the dust bowl was created by the government subsidizing the price of wheat/grain and encouraging the planting of every available acre and then failing to buy that grain when the war ended.
There are actually fewer acres planted now than then and the practices are superior to then.
That ain’t exactly farm land.
Except no one is moving to California this time...
Droughts do happen. The Sahara has had a drought for 7000 years.
So,from the map, the weather is dry in the Mohave Desert, the Sonoran Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert. I can see why everyone would be shocked. I expect to see tropical rain forests in the desert. Because I’m a global warming expert. Now, where is my federal grant?
California should be fine as soon as they finish tearing down all the Dams and Hydro Electric
My guess things stay dry till the aug monsoon via sea of Cortez. Meanwhile in the ebb and flow of things we seem way above usual in rain in the east. Just the normal flow of climate. Wake me when I can swim the Sahara.
Isn’t most of the area they have highlighted desert?
OMG - extreme weather is occurring somewhere!
OMIGAWD! OMIGAWD! OMIGAWD!
There was similar drought back around 2003; eventually the rain came back.
Odds are it will this time, too.
The last US megadrought was in th 16th century, or about 500 years ago. We have been very lucky since America was founded. We have had excellent living conditions in all ways, despite the occassional hurricane, tornado, or earthquake.
If we get a 40-year long drought today, it is going to devestate us. We can’t build de-salination plants and bring them online that quickly. There would be severe widespread pain.
It is THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT and they always have droughts.
A 25 year drought in the 1300s drove the tribes out of the Chaco Canyon area.
A drought in 1831 dried up all the springs on the Santa Fe Trail.
I’ve studied the Dust Bowl. Some of my family was caught up in it. This report is BS. The conditions are very different.
Bad drought, yes. Homes buried up to windows and higher in dirt?
Not happening, typical ‘scare’ BS.
Since the west has a drought, maybe we should once again flood the west and the rest of the country with millions more water guzzling, energy sucking illegal aliens.
Great idea Democrats!
Those deep red areas are the trails that the Illegal Alien Hispanic “Democrat” base use to sneak into America. They’re the idiots kicking up all the dust and drinking the water.
I wonder if these bright boys realize the Southwest had a multi-decadal drought back in the 12-1300s. Led to the relocation of the Old Ones from the cliff dwellings south to Mexico.