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America’s Great 2012 Drought
The progress of the drought has been horrific:

The current drought is covering almost as much of the U.S. as during the 1930s dust bowl:

As the Weather Channel pointed out last month, the area covered by drought rivals some of the dust bowl years:

As of June – the area covered by severe drought was still lower than during the Dust Bowl years, but still made the top 10 list:

But – despite the recent rains in some areas, which reduced by 1% the area covered by drought – the farm states remain parched, and the area covered by severe drought is still growing.
Unfortunately, the one certainty is higher food prices.
Much of the area hit during the Dust Bowl – and again today – is naturally prone to drought. As the Weather Channel notes:
The area is known as semi-arid and is naturally prone to drought and high winds. In fact, early settlers referred to it as the “Great American Desert.”
Interestingly, HowStuffWorks notes:
About 90 percent of the 450 million hectares of arid land in North America suffers from moderate to severe desertification [source: Center for International Earth Science Information Network]
But as Ezra Klein notes, there have been much bigger droughts in the distant past:
Scientists have looked at data from tree rings and found (pdf) that North America endured brutal “megadroughts” during the medieval period. These droughts were similar in intensity to today’s dry spells, but lasted 20 to 40 years and were possibly linked to massive La Niña ocean events:
Fortunately, we haven’t seen anything that bad in recent times.
Postscript: July was reportedly the warmest month recorded in the U.S. since records began in 1895. And AP reports:
The first seven months of 2012 were the warmest on record for the nation. And August 2011 through July this year was the warmest 12-month period on record, just beating out the July 2011-June 2012 time period.
Some say this proves global warming is a dire threat, while others say that it is dishonest to claim that short-term weather proves anything.
But we can all agree on the following:
- We should use benign technology - and not cures which are worse than the ailments (like sending nearly microscopic particles of specially made glass into the Earth’s upper atmosphere or cutting down trees and burying them) - to address climate
- Nuclear is not the answer ... although the nuclear lobby would like you to think it is
- As Britain's energy regulator and many others note, microgeneration is key
- Reducing soot is crucial ... and economically feasible
- Imposing fascism is never justified
- Downsizing the military is vital
- Cap and trade is not the least bit helpful
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Thorium!
http://youtu.be/GQ9Ll5EX1jc
Convenient timing for the global warming advocates, after being thoroughly discredited with Climategate and other scandals. Since the fake data didn't fly, now we get the real thing. HARRP and chemtrails, your tax dollars at work!
It's a false flag drought!
Climategate did not discredit anything except the denialistas....
What fake data are you referring to?
BTW, they are CON-trails not CHEM-trails....
Well, there you have it. Makes me feel better that aayers has all of the answers.
Nuclear may not be the answer but it is certainly not the problem and neither is the the size of our military.
I dont know what all the fuss is about. Everyone knows that food comes from grocery stores.
Weather as a weapon like HAARP, what did everyone expect? America has been under siege since 9/11 and not by cave men.
The stock brokers are done as well since 95% of the trades are done with front-running computers.
Silver and gold is done with zipping of the investigation of manipulation of the precious metals market for “National Security Reasons”
Whoopee! The fun has just begun!
And here in the Appalachian Mtns:
(Southeast US)
July was the wettest on record here....normal is about 4.5"....record was 9.7.....this July was 12.5".
August is starting off interesting as well....we got 5" in less than 2 hours this past Sunday night. Needless to say, it cleaned out the creeks and anybody that didn't understand the concept of "flood plain".
Here in Fla, I can also report that after a one year drought, many parts of the state were up to their eyeballs (literally) in fresh water.
The drought is now over...the drought was caused by an abnormally low hurricane/tropical storm season the last couple years...which, if every one will remember was an impossiblilty because of man made global warming/AGW after 2004 when we got slammed by four hurricanes...you see...killer hurricanes were going to be the yearly norm from 2004 going forward.
Nope...more BS.
(Buzzer)
Wow... do you always make stuff up?
Show us in any of the IPCC reports where the concensus position is that AGW would result in increased hurricanes? Sorry.... bzzzt...
it saturated the news nightly, literally for years
how short is your memory?
Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox
.039% of atmospher is CO2
we are responsible for 5% of that roughly
or
.00195% of the atmosphere
AGW?
really?
with those kinda numbers?
c'mon
Fuck, at least get your numbers correct... Assuming you can even figure out where you fucked up...
Hint: pre industrial revolution C02 maxed out at ~280 ppmv.... we are now at 396 ppmv
Remind me of the fraction of the atmosphere that is GHG? And what the global temperature would be without them?
water vapor is 7833 times more abundant in the atmosphere than CO2
ever been outside on a hot sticky high CO2 day when your nuts were just sticking to your leg?
or does a hot sticky high humidity day sound a little more familiar?
fuckin AGW...for christs sake, temperature go up ,temp go down
cyclical dammit
of course the sun has nothing to fucking do with it which is why its so much goddamned hotter at nite or in the shade than during the day with the sun beating down on you
I would say so many pricks have mucked around with the records that nobody really know what's going on anymore.
That means, default to "follow the money."
Hmmm..... statists, bankers and other ne'er do-wells want taxes and fines to "fix it."
I'm going to pass on AGW, unless somebody sets off a few nukes.
Give the Sun time go go back to its minimum and let's see what happens.
It must be a weather story... the paid trolls are back.
Now we have the great American desert for our own verision of Mad MAX. I'm going out to purchase a Cobra mustang to ride the hot asphalt. So looking forward to the future of mahem and Zombie warfare. All I need now is a hot little Ausi..or husi...maybe even both. Sarc off...
Curses to Mr. Gore, curses! Damned HAARP. C'mon tin foilers (half assed off sarc?)
Visit to Weather Modification Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZS6cA_kRqE
Agenda 21 for Dummies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcSV4zG0p8
Listen to JFK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnkdfFAqsHA#t=1m25s
It has been going on for a long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyRAxW-uOg
PS. Your tin foil hat will not work as tin-foil is no longer made from tin but is now aluminum.
terrible....
well I guess its time to go clean the car and hose down the lawn again....
i presume The Weather Channel has mixed up the dates to deliberately obscure from public view there is a regular as clockwork 7-8 year drought cycle in the US, which Ethiopia also suffers from ...this is why journalists perpetuate the myth of 'surprise' and 'unpredictable weather' when we're hit by another uber-predictable not-at-all surprising drought
drought can be countered in America and Ethiopia by simple investment in water storage.. but as they're both monopolised by peanut brained politicians we're forever running out of water causing food price inflation (and in Ethiopia, easily avoidable starvation and death)
we should privatise all water and get Rules and Regs off suffocating the market and human progress... like Chile's free market in water which works briliantly
Everything Govt touches turns to crap.. the water industry is no exception
(this is for you chindit, wherever you are)
http://floridagulfskywatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-rothschild-recently-bought-weather.html
http://zen-haven.dk/rothschilds-weather-channel-buys-weather-underground/
Shit! The Zionists figured out how to buy the weather!
Those cunning bastards!
Ok I'll bite. How in the heck does one go about privatising the rain?
By throwing rain hoarders in jail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VvwkTu1e7V0
Enron was figuring it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SniNbnoc8Lw
How does one go about taxing the air?
" I see you're using the sun" - Steve Martin
Indeed.
Damn Dave...I'm gettin too old for this, I've seen it all before ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzLry3ABpV0
While the government can certainly fuck things up, you are tilting at windmills with this latest offering...
A few thousand rain barrels ain't gonna save the day...
And I presume that you believe that the Colorado would still reach the sea if it was "privatised"....sure, whatever....
how about a few hundred trillion barrels by investing in some 2000 mile long canals.
isn't particularly difficult nor expensive.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/oregon-man-sentenced-30-days-jail-collec...
I'll bite, what is your assumed source?
Great lakes. Also, corp of engineers builds some good dams in this neck of the woods.
You might want to clear things with Canada first, or was the plan to invade first and then ask questions later???
Those mini-maps are why I don't live in Texas. I like drinking water too much.
And I like to live in Belgium because I like drinking beer too much.
A Belgian Classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-3dfQK7w4
SD you're being flippent and also hiding your true reasons... you live in Belgium because they can't form a Govt
if the trend looks like it'll continue after the EC/EU crumbles and vacates their HQ i'm coming across to join you
Belgium may not have a goberment but the South (French) and North (Flemmish) are a microcism of the EU with the South living off the hard work of the North. They love each other - really. lol
We just started the corn harvest here in western Missouri, about 50 lbs per acre so far on the early planted corn, late plant is a total loss/It has been chopped for silage for the cattle. The bean crop is still in question as a good rain may help a little in yield, but need rain or it will be a total loss.
Glad I still have last years beans still in the bin, 20,000 bushel and prices going up everyday, I will sell when they make $20, as nothing to replace them with. I would rather have bean in the bin than money in the bank! All the neighbors sold their wheat at harvest for $5.50 cash, due to bankers wanting money, price is now $9. My advise to the neighbors was screw the bankers, they won;t be around next year when they will needed to borrow money from to put out a crop, and the neigbors would of made $3 more per bushel if they would of taken my advise.
I have been the this rodeo before, interest will go to the moon soon, with no money to be found for risky farm operations, that happened in the 80's with the Volker Plan, He did a good job of screwing farmers with high interest rates, not going their again!
My calculations are that crop insurance on 75 million acres @ 100 bushel short, @ $8 bushel, will cost the crop insurance plan on corn $600 billion, probably another amount on soybeans of the same amount, so in summary the Fed's got a 1.5 trilion dollor pamt to the farmers that they do not have the money for, most wont get it due to some fancy language in the policy that screws them, and they will be out of business, just like the 80's.
you had me at "screw the bankers"
I thought soybeans only stored well for around 6 months. But I'm no Branson Mo.
You'll sell your beans if and when they get to $20, not when they get to $20, because it's possible that they'll never will get to $20.
To Stud: Excellent post. I was wondering which company provides most of the policies for crop insurance, and when do they typically payout?
Thanks in Advance
Don't know which company provides the most but here's the list of 2013 providers(assuming they survive 2012):
Crop Insurance Providers List for 2013Here's the real nitty-gritty:
So it looks to me like the taxpayer is the final backstop in the crop insurance gig...there's a shocker.
Held your beans? Dirty capitalist!/sarc
George Washington, you are really slipping!
I would have expected you have pointers to web pages "proving" that the drought is the direct result of Fukushima radiation. And then more pointers to web pages "proving" that Fukushima was actually a terrorist attack sponsored by the US government.
Quit loafing and get back to work! Otherwise I may have to look elsewhere for bogus information to feed my paranoid delusions.
Hello nuclear shillbot.. How much you getting paid to pump the death machine?
P.s. Fuck you.
how's this for a "paranoid delusion":http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-09/downgrade-risk-rises-as-drou... we already know about the massive electrical failure...600 million without power. shall we throw in a global food crisis to make it interesting?