Causes of Calif. Drought Natural, Not Man-Made

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Yes, those of us who haven't swallowed the Kool-Aid already know this.

Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists.

"It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," said Richard Seager, the report's lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.

"In fact, multiyear droughts appear regularly in the state's climate record, and it's a safe bet that a similar event will happen again," he said.

Causes of Calif. drought natural not man-made NOAA
 
Causes of Calif. drought natural not man-made NOAA

"The authors of the new report would really have us believe that is merely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the impact of human-caused climate change?" Penn State meteorologist Michael Mann wrote Monday in The Huffington Post. "Frankly, I don't find that even remotely plausible."

Mann said the NOAA report focuses primarily on the lack of precipitation, not the unusually high temperatures measured in the oceans as well as across California.

"This study completely fails to consider what climate change is doing to water in California," wrote Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He said the work "completely misses" how hotter air increases drying by evaporating more of it from the ground.

This year, California is having its warmest year in 120 years of weather records, the National Climatic Data Center reported Monday.

Peer-reviewed studies are divided on whether the drought can be blamed on climate change.

Hard to blame, exclusively, climate change caused by the warming for any one event. It is the number of events that we are seeing, the trend upwards in the number of event, and the severity of the events, that is causing the worry.
 
there is zero evidence of any link between drought and climate change.

On many occasions, Ive posted up drought maps from between 1930 and 1965..........they show conclusively that drought comes and goes in any and every corner or America depending on numerous factors, none of which have anything to do with climate change.

IDK......if Im a climate change guy, Im dropping this from my narrative.........its silly. The AGW true believers need to start looking closely at making changes in their playbook.........as the polls show very clearly, the hyper-alarmism is making people tune out global warming/climate change as any kind of concern.
 
Really? Yet 2014 is coming in as the warmest year on record, with a neutral ENSO and a low TSI. And the Arctic Ocean continues it's decline of ice in the summer, Greenland and Antarctica continue to lose ice by the giga-ton, and the sea levels continue to rise.
 
Really? Yet 2014 is coming in as the warmest year on record, with a neutral ENSO and a low TSI. And the Arctic Ocean continues it's decline of ice in the summer, Greenland and Antarctica continue to lose ice by the giga-ton, and the sea levels continue to rise.

Right...here is an example of that data manipulation for you. The claim is based mostly on sea surface temps and land masses with little instrumental coverage... Here are the SST anomalies... Take particular note of the area immediately east of Greenland. 2C to 6C above normal with the average being 4C above normal.

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Now here is the sea ice as of 12/09. Note the ice in the area that is supposedly up to 6C above normal. You believe in a hoax rocks...you either A) aren't bright enough to see that the data is being manipulated in order to keep the grant gravy train rolling or B) are aware of the hoax and are just a lying piece of shit willing to pull the wool over the eyes of billions of people to move a political agenda forward. One is excusable and one is not.

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