Monday, January 21, 2013
"Nature paper: Global droughts unchanged in 60 years"
Climate phenomena are paraded about to "prove" global warming theories; and then, historical statistics are discovered that ruin the parade.
Sadly, the media rushes to publish the "alleged" links, while the statistical proof rarely makes it to any major publication...
Joanna Nova calls attention to this on her blog:
"How many images have we seen of drought-stricken cracked land, or been told this is the future? How many headlines have suggested that global warming causes droughts? Since the end of World War II humans have produced some 85% of all their CO2 emissions, but here is a new study showing that for all those emissions, and for all that warming, droughts back then were just as bad globally as they are today."