[Harpotoo]

Burn Cali Burn!

God Hates you!

[Pollard]

There were megadroughts in what is now the central and western United States, between 900 and 1300.[23] A megadrought struck what is now the American Southwest 1276–1299 C.E., which severely affected the Pueblo cities,[24][25] and tree rings also document drought in the lower and central Mississippi River basin between the 14th and 16th century.

Wow, this climate change has been going on forever. /s

[Pollard]

A megadrought (or mega-drought) is a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer. Past megadroughts have been associated with persistent multiyear La Niña conditions (cooler than normal water temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean).[1]

The term megadrought is generally used to describe the length of a drought, and not its acute intensity. In scientific literature, the term is used to describe decades-long droughts or multi-decadal droughts. Multiyear droughts of less than a decade, such as the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, are generally not described as megadroughts even though they are of a long duration. In popular literature multiyear or even single year droughts are occasionally described as megadroughts based upon their severity, the economic damage they inflict or other criteria, but this is the exception and not the rule.

[Secret Agent Man]

I reject the premise that their 29 climate computer models are accurate and sound.

[Organic Panic]

Let’s pretend we can do anything about it. Then why are the idiots releasing water from the dams when they should be filling them up? “Save the toads and delta smelt...”

[Zathras]

Fake News coming from the Puppet Masters.

[ridesthemiles]

B S

[Thud]

This is a regional climate cycle for the whole American Southwest which may go back to the end of the last ice age, and has been traced back several thousand years now.

Basically the 20th century was THE wettest century in the past 2000 years, and it is what we think of as normal. But average US precipitation in the past 2000 years averages 2/3 of the 20th century's, and a real drought in the area sees only 1/3 of the 20th century's. Paleoclimatologists believe we have entered such a megadrought. They say such droughts can last centuries.

So we can kiss off agriculture in the Southwest, as least as we've known it. Israel's agricultural sector is based on desalination of seawater, using natural gas-fired electric power plants, and is presently about the same proportion of GDP as California's (2%). But they use desalinated water for their population, and treated wastewater (former desalinated water) for agriculture.

This is not a good time to move to Arizona or Colorado. They're too far from the ocean to use desalinated water.

[GOP Poet]

They are squeezing us from all angles in California. Massive price increases in any sort of energy consumption as well as permit and otherwise limiting use of natural gas—but hammering us price wise for electric, water, and now our home insurance rates are up 32-36%—allowing for a Buffet of pricing. Such as $10,000 for earthquake insure an year, $9,000 for the most basic—nothing more (government intervened) fire insurance, $10,000 for a wrap policy (water damage, theft, etc), $500 a year for umbrella insurance. It is craziness. These are just basic policies to protect my home in the most basic of ways. And now we have inflation. It’s crazy out here. Gas is through the roof. I got a half tank the other day and it cost me $56.00.

[BiteYourSelf]

Sniff sniff smells like ASS.press💩.

[P.O.E.]

The worst megadrought. Didn’t know how good we had it with all the prior megadroughts. /s

[Trailerpark Badass]

Seth Borenstein, Climate reporter for the AP, just announced on Twitter that the AP is going to increase its “climate emergency” reporting, because of “grants.” Never said grants from whom. Kind of odd that a purportedly for-profit enterprise would receive “grants.”

[markman46]

OK i went to wattsupwiththat.com and came away with this tid bit of information:

“The NCC paper itself appears to be decent enough. Tree ring analysis (of roof beams) from Southwestern archeology sites dating back to 800 (Chaco Canyon being an example) were spliced together with living tree ring cores to form a complete SW US regional wet/normal/dry picture spanning about 1200 years. That coniferous trees grow better annually in wet (wider rings) rather than dry (narrower rings) conditions is well established (unlike Mann’s treemometers).

The trees tell a story of 5 major Southwest US droughts since 800AD. The worst is at present; the next worst was a period lasting 23 years in the late 1500’s. To a reasonable person, this should mean these periodic western droughts have little to do with climate change. But that would not get the paper published in NCC.”

[daniel1212]

It seems anything can be predicted or assigned to CC:

Climate Impacts in the Midwest

Precipitation is greatest in the eastern part of the Midwest and less towards the west.[1] Heavy downpours are already common, but climate change is expected to intensify storms and lead to greater precipitation across the entire region during this century. Annual precipitation has already risen by as much as 20% in some areas.[1] Projections of future precipitation indicate that heavy downpours are likely to occur primarily in winter and spring months while summers will become drier, especially in the southern portion of the region. - https://climatechange.chicago.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-midwest

[daniel1212]

Just from one page of search returns.

2011 Extreme Weather and Climate Change: The Midwest Devastating deluges, record floods and deadly heat waves have raised the question of whether there’s a connection between these events and global warming. The bottom line answer is yes: ...Above-normal rain and melting snow caused record releases from upstream dams in Spring 2011. Credit: Columbia Missourian....More than 1,300 daily precipitation records were broken during April across the Midwest and South. For the month, 72 locations reported their rainiest day in any April on record and five of these stations set a new all-time record for the rainiest 24-hour period for any month, the National Climatic Data Center reported...

Lake Erie Algae Bloom Matches Climate Change Projections ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lake... Aug 05, 2014 · An increase in heavy rainfall is already being seen throughout the U.S. The Midwest has seen a 37 percent increase in the amount of rain falling in heavy precipitation events since the late 1950s

What Climate Change Means for Michigan - US EPA https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/... Heavy Precipitation and Flooding. Changing the climate is likely to increase the frequency of floods in Michigan. Over the last half century, average annual precipitation in most of the Midwest has increased by 5 to 10 percent.

For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort March 29, 2019 Global warming has the potential to intensify the Earth’s water cycle, which will alter the quantity, frequency, intensity and duration of rain and snowfall. As my research and work by others has shown, all of these changes raise the risk of floods for Midwest states. ..These factors mean that climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent when looking at historic climate data. From 1951 through 2013, my study found that light and moderate precipitation across the Midwest increased by about 1 percent per decade, while heavy precipitation increased by 4.4 percent per decade.

Did climate change cause Midwest flooding? » Yale by Samantha Harrington April 2, 2019.. Some of the root causes – like wetter weather and rapid spring warm ups – have become more likely due to climate change.

Record Rain Is Drowning Fields in the Midwest — Is It Climate Change? Heavy rains and flooding through the winter and spring have left fields across the Midwest too wet to plant. By Anna FunkJun 11, 2019 11:00 AM... It’s too soon to say whether this year’s crop and flood damages can be attributed to climate change. But one thing’s for certain: predictions for a warmer future have these areas slated for more of these extreme rainfall events. A map showing the 2019 rankings for regional precipitation. Higher numbers indicate more rain and 124 is the highest possible rank, meaning that this year saw the most rain since records began 124 years ago. (Credit: NOAA)

Prepare for more downpours: Heavy rain has increased across most of the United States, and is likely to increase further By Michon Scott Reviewed By Dan Barrie Published July 10, 2019 Updated July 6, 2021