{"id":4194,"date":"2010-10-20T03:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2010-10-20T03:28:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:28:24","slug":"global-warming-hysteria-im-thirsty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Hysteria &#8211; I&#8217;m Thirsty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Global%20Warming%20Hysteria%20-%20I%27m%20Thirsty%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Future droughts are going to be massive, so says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39741525\/ns\/us_news-environment\/\">a new study<\/a> from somebody.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Increasingly dry conditions across much of the globe \u2014 including the U.S. \u2014 are likely over the next 30 years, a new study predicts. Moreover, by the year 2100 drought in some regions could be unprecedented in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing drought has long been forecast as a consequence of warming temperatures&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, as I&#8217;ve reminded people over and over again, worldwide precipitation <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2841\">has neither gone up or down<\/a> in the last century.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;but the study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research projects serious impacts as soon as the 2030s. Impacts by century&#8217;s end could go beyond anything in the historical record, the study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in the coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the public and the climate change research community,&#8221; study author Aiguo Dai said in a statement. &#8220;If the projections in this study come even close to being realized, the consequences for society worldwide will be enormous.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To get an idea of how severe droughts might get, scientists use a measure called the Palmer Drought Severity Index, or PDSI. A positive score is wet, a negative score is dry and a score of zero is neither overly wet nor dry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the kicker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most severe drought in recent history, in the Sahel region of western Africa in the 1970s, had a PDSI of -3 or -4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhm&#8230;  Huh?   So, the world has been warming during the forty years since this most severe drought EVER, and there hasn&#8217;t been another like it <em><strong>for all this time<\/strong><\/em>, and yet, by 2030, only twenty years from now, WE&#8217;RE DOOMED??????????&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study&#8217;s findings are based on 22 computer models and the best current predictions of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh. Computer models. OK. Now I get it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This could change depending on actual greenhouse emissions in the future as well as natural climate cycles such as El Nino, Dai said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation &#8211; This is just a model. We can&#8217;t really predict this since we can&#8217;t reliably model the frequency or durations of natural phenomenon like El Nino or La Nina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Global%20Warming%20Hysteria%20-%20I%27m%20Thirsty%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Future droughts are going to be massive, so says a new study from somebody. Increasingly dry conditions across much of the globe \u2014 including the U.S. \u2014 are likely over the next 30 years, a new study predicts. Moreover, by the year 2100 drought in some regions could be unprecedented in modern times. Increasing drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}