Global warming will cause the worst dry spells in more than 1,000 years, claims study Researchers say mega-droughts in the US are going to get worse They say there will be more and more droughts starting in 2050 And there's an 80% chance one could last at least 35 years These droughts are caused by climate change - while ones in the past were due to natural processes 'We're going to have to think about a much drier future in western North America,' said study lead author Dr Cook from Nasa I've been reading a number of these all across the web. Can't figure out whether it's fear mongering or based on realistic projections. Read the full story @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Maybe at some time in the future the climate science community will come to realize that model outputs showing “unprecedented” future values are indications the models are fatally flawed.
Damn, a bigger drought than the one that the Vikings caused from their fires while forging swords ? Well, Greenland use to be green at one time and Iceland wasn't so icey back during the day. >" During the years 800-1200, Iceland and Greenland were settled by the Vikings. These people, also known as the Norse, included Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, and Finns. The warm climate during the "Medieval Warm Period" allowed this great migration to flourish. Drift ice posed the greatest hazard to sailors but reports of drift ice in old records do not appear until the thirteenth century. The Norse peoples traveled to Iceland for a variety of reasons including a search for more land and resources to satisfy a growing population and to escape raiders and harsh rulers. One force behind the movement to Iceland in the ninth century was the ruthlessness of Harald Fairhair, a Norwegian King Vikings travelling to Iceland from Norway during the Medieval Warm Period were probably encouraged by the sight of pastures with sedges and grasses and dwarf woodlands of birch and willow resembling those at home..."< http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/vikings_during_mwp.html
Problem isn't so much lack of water. It's too many people in the American Southwest. This arid region has experienced a tremendous increase in population in the last few decades.
It's not just the drought. The combination of temperature and humidity could become lethal, though only in the eastern USA (in the western USA, the humidity never gets that bad.) This map shows projected temperatures in 2100 for upper-end warming predictions (5C-7C). The grayish-purple areas experience wet bulb temps above 35C/95F. Conditions like that are lethal for humans who can't get into air-conditioning, even if the human is soaking wet and resting in the shade. The whole eastern USA would experience days like that. Even if you can air-condition the people, you can't air-condition the cows. So, massive livestock deaths as well. These are the kind of issues that deniers are .... well, denying. The more rational people understand that the worst case scenario is just as likely as the best case scenario.
Mamooth....I think this is the first time that i have seen you present a case is a fair-minded, logical fashion......You feelin ok? Flu spreading in Indiana?
