drought, Tag

By Andy May The featured image is a photograph of the Big Bend area in Texas in October 2015 when the drought index was moderately moist. The photo was taken…

Megalopolises need fresh clean drinking water – a lot of it.  NY City needs a billion gallons a day. NY City ‘steals’ much of that water from the Catskills – at least in the opinion of the people that live there...

“Oversize plumbing pipes move water inefficiently, wasting money and increasing the risk of waterborne diseases. And water efficiency is especially important as climate change makes droughts more frequent and severe.”

Facing a severe drought and reliant on hydropower, the country is enduring relentless blackouts. But experts say opportunities have been missed to adapt and diversify

Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies

Its not just the data that disagree with Grist’s hypothesis, anyone with a thinking mind knows that history does as well. To imply that today we are seeing more autocrats than previous centuries is laughable. According...

The juxtaposition throughout the article of the two discussing climate change and policy, including how people need to change the way they eat and take vacations, with frequent breaks to discuss how nice their lunch in prosperous...

Anyone arguing CO2 is driving all the climate changes and all the extreme weather events are either very ignorant of these weather dynamics, or dishonest grifters trying to manipulate your support for their political agenda! 

Climate science keeps contradicting itself

Hydrological Drought, as opposed to Meteorological Drought, is the deux ex machina of California drought mongers

Just a year ago, the media and climate “experts”, however, were warning that Italy’s largest lake, at 370 square kilometers, risked drying up – a sure consequence of climate change, no doubt!

While it was pouring with rain a year ago, the Environment Agency was still warning of drought!

In summary, Seattle Times ClimateLab articles are not doing anyone a favor by telling tall tales about drought and climate change.  El Nino conditions are evident right now, with low snowpack but near normal precipitation. ...

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources...

Two years ago, media outlets were headlining strident messages that California had moved into a "megadrought" and that there was little hope for relief.