drought, Tag

The water situation is rapidly improving on the West Coast. The forecasts are highly promising.

But then a miracle occurred: a series of atmospheric rivers pushed into the Southwest, dropping immense amounts of precipitation over the Colorado River drainage.

The lesson of California history is not that nature was once benign and humans somehow broke it. The lesson is that California has never been climatically benign.

European climate activists seem determined to turn a bad season into a famine crisis.

This is why the entire climate movement is collapsing. It’s all built on hype by those with special interests in perpetuating a grift, in this case, a pursuit of academic praise and, no doubt, research money put up by other...

ScienceFiles criticizes the journal Nature and peer reviewers for allowing low-quality science to be published in the first place.

Scientists who prefer to advance the narrative that human activity is driving warming, and climate warming accelerates global drought, have historically used negligent statistical methods to “artificially inflate” drying...

The timing of the report’s submission was strategically chosen to precede the annual World Health Assembly of the WHO in Geneva, aiming to initiate a debate on updating international health regulations.

The Washington State Department of Ecology is undermining its credibility with these inflammatory and unscientific drought emergencies.   

But whatever the motive, it is very harmful, resulting in unnecessary worry and leading to bad decisions (like the wasteful, corrupting Washington State CCA, which preferentially hurts low-income people while enriching special...

But this might result in less food.

But when it comes to issues dealing with climate, the Seattle Times has descended into advocacy, hype, and exaggeration, unsupported by facts and actual science.   1

By precisely tracking these changes, GRACE FO allows scientists to map how water moves across the planet

here is no evidence that this drought is worse than those that drove historic migration. The cited claim that recent drought in Somalia was made “a hundred times more likely” by climate change is not based on sound science....

By presenting interviews and moment-in-time scenes as confirmation of a continent-wide climate verdict, Al Jazeera is misleading its audience by making a causal connection where data show none...