Climatology baws, is there a scientific reason droughts have become less severe in the US?

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Climatology baws, is there a scientific reason droughts have become less severe in the US?

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Global....wetting. Or something.

Basically, it's your fault, but if i tax you more, then it's still your fault. So i'll need a few more taxes.

I just thought there might be a plausible scientific theory behind less severe droughts in the US over the past 125 years.

Irrigated farming practices.

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Uneducated guess: Warmer temps leads to more evaporation leads to more precipitation.

I also say the ocean currents have been playing in our favor since the California drought

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But US temps have remained pretty steady over the same time period (maybe a 10th of one degree Fahrenheit increase in the last 125 years) . NOAA's US temp data from 1895 to 2019:

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is there a scientific reason droughts have become less severe

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More rain

Yes, because the governing laws of our climatological surroundings are high dimensional, strongly coupled, extremely non-linear, and stochastically evolving.

Therefore, any attempts to describe the systems using very low dimensional, low order (such as mean, variance, 'ole boy Palmer Indices, etc.), and linear interpolations/extrapolations about a local point yield, at best, extremely limited information.

Furthermore, discussions directed towards increase/decrease of climate "severity" based on such low order inferences (which is highly successful at stealing taxpayer money) are an absolute waste of time.

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GumboPot It seems logical, no? If the ocean is warming, that means more moisture in the atmosphere. More moisture in the atmosphere means more rain. More rain means mess severe droughts.

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So warming is good?

Sounds like we need more warming.

We are seeing less extremes in temperature over time in the US especially the Midwest. That is, we are seeing higher low temperatures and lower high temperatures.

Why?

Because man is spreading water throughout the Midwest by irrigation. This is a theory I found on my own but I'm certainly not the only one. Study: irrigation causes 'significant cooling of global average surface temperatures over land'

Water evaporating during the day removes energy from the local atmosphere. It specifically removes 2256 kJ/kg of energy per unit mass of water. Evaporation is an endothermic process it removes energy (aka, heat). With more water in the Midwest due to man irrigating Midwest farmland more heat is removed during the day time hours thus we see lower high temperatures as the volume of water increases in the Midwest.

The opposite is true at night.

Condensation occurs. Condensation is an exothermic process. As water condenses it releases the same energy (aka, heat) as it took up in the evaporation process during the day. The release of heat due to condensation is leading to higher low temperatures.

This is what the temperature data is showing.

There is a correlation with CO2 but CO2 is not causing the more temperate Midwest. That correlation (as CO2 increases Midwest temperature range decreases) is simply accidental and totally disproves global warming theory if you try to apply a CO2/temperature correlation.

A much more plausible explanation for the more temperate Midwest is due to water and what I just previously explained. It’s the same reason coastal cities and island nations are, well, temperate.


Before I posted my explanation above I just wanted to see if any OT climatologist would post their own theories. If the theory I outlined is true it's man made climate damping which obviously has caused man and nature to thrive. The evidence is all around us. Less droughts. Less forest fires on a per acre basis. More food...less starvation. Etc., etc.