re: 'Megadrought' emerging in the western US might be worse than any in the last 1,200 years

It rained for 9 days straight in March here in Dallas.

Doesn’t seem to be the makings of a mega drought.

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A severe drought that has engulfed the American Southwest since the year 2000 is likely to soon be the most severe drought since the 800s, according to a new study published in Science.

"This appears to be just the beginning of a more extreme trend toward megadrought as global warming continues," the authors wrote in the study.

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Did global warming cause the drought in the 800’s too?

There once was a proposed water pipeline from AK to the lower 48 for drought stricken areas.

Yep, it has been cool and wet in DFW in March/Arril, has to in the top 5 ever

It appears we have been fighting drought and wildfires for damn ever. Any time I hear or read the line that something "is the worst since...." and then see that global warming or climate change is to blame, I tend to ignore it. If the "problem" is man made, what caused the problem 100, 200, or a fricking 1,000 years ago? Comparing today's issues to those of 500 years ago whilst simultaneously blaming man made climate change is a fatally flawed argument.

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It’s based on the tree rings from trees in the areas according to the article. Weather from years past can be determined by the size of the tree rings

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Tree ring data is less understood and less reliable for understanding historical weather and climate patterns than many suppose.

This is an interesting discussion about that issue from Climate Discussion Nexus.

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Just two months after MBH98 appeared, Nature published another climate reconstruction, this time by the late British scientist Keith Briffa and 4 coauthors. Like Mann’s study, it used tree ring records from all over the Northern Hemisphere to estimate temperatures back to the year 1400. But unlike Mann’s paper, the result looked nothing like a hockey stick. It showed a lot of variability over time, and record warmth in the 1930s, but no special warming pattern since then. In fact, it showed cooling up to 1993, with temperatures ending below the average of the past six centuries.

The climate science community was confronted with two studies at the same time, both using similar methods to study the same thing, and coming up with very different answers. Normally that kind of result means the science is not settled, the data may not be reliable, and the uncertainties need to be explained. In this case, apparently, it meant instead that a body needed to be buried for political reasons. The story of the disappearance of the Briffa data is one of the darkest episodes in modern science.

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r/ LINK

Global warming now causes droughts. Last week global warming causes it to rain more because the warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor. Make up your mind.

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Who was living in the American southwest 1200 years ago to document droughts? Was global warming happening then too?

Haven't these alarmists had enough ammo to base their fear mongering bullshite on lately?

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Alarmists are the best. They have their quack Scientists, researchers who embarrass themselves for the Agenda.

Might be