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The giant red splotch in the map above looks all the world like a gaping wound. And in one sense, thats kind of what it is a wound in the heartland of America.
What the west has been experiencing isn't even a particularly bad drought inso far as droughts go. There have been many worse years since we started keeping records. 7 worse years since the 30's with 5 of them being prior to 1960 with the droughts being longer, more widespread, and more intense.
A common tactic among warmers is to show modern records, exclaim how terrible things are and completely fail to put present conditions into context by showing that present conditions aren't dire, or even moderately troubling if compared to even the recent past.
What the west has been experiencing isn't even a particularly bad drought inso far as droughts go. There have been many worse years since we started keeping records. 7 worse years since the 30's with 5 of them being prior to 1960 with the droughts being longer, more widespread, and more intense.
A common tactic among warmers is to show modern records, exclaim how terrible things are and completely fail to put present conditions into context by showing that present conditions aren't dire, or even moderately troubling if compared to even the recent past.
Droughts aren't correctly measured in a year's time on that we agree, SSDD.
And we also agree that calling something a drought when we don't REALLY know what the historical data is, is hubris.
But droughts can, I think, be resonably measured in terms of a lifetime.
The word drought doesn't measure the rain, so much it measures our need for rain (perhaps even more correctly our expectation of rain, even when our expectations are wrong.
For instance, in the 30's the people thought that the Dust Bowl was experiencing a drought.
It wasn't.
What that area was experiencing was a return to NORMAL rainfall patterns.
But as the memory of man in that area was based on only a couple decades of abnormally high amounts of rain from about the 1880's through the 1920.
They ASSUMED that they were in a drought when the weather returned to it usual pattern.
What the west has been experiencing isn't even a particularly bad drought inso far as droughts go. There have been many worse years since we started keeping records. 7 worse years since the 30's with 5 of them being prior to 1960 with the droughts being longer, more widespread, and more intense.
A common tactic among warmers is to show modern records, exclaim how terrible things are and completely fail to put present conditions into context by showing that present conditions aren't dire, or even moderately troubling if compared to even the recent past.
Droughts aren't correctly measured in a year's time on that we agree, SSDD.
And we also agree that calling something a drought when we don't REALLY know what the historical data is, is hubris.
But droughts can, I think, be resonably measured in terms of a lifetime.
The word drought doesn't measure the rain, so much it measures our need for rain (perhaps even more correctly our expectation of rain, even when our expectations are wrong.
For instance, in the 30's the people thought that the Dust Bowl was experiencing a drought.
It wasn't.
What that area was experiencing was a return to NORMAL rainfall patterns.
But as the memory of man in that area was based on only a couple decades of abnormally high amounts of rain from about the 1880's through the 1920.
They ASSUMED that they were in a drought when the weather returned to it usual pattern.
Just when you think these people come up with the profoundly absurd, they outdo themselves again.............
