6 Responses to “Look on the Bright Side”

1. isaacschumann says:

   August 3, 2011 at 2:35 pm

   …can’t explain that!

2. D. Robinson says:

   August 3, 2011 at 3:41 pm

   Keith typo alert you mean “though” not through
    
   And the extremely short length of the records lessens the impact of the story
   “That level of exceptional drought had never before been seen in the monitor’s 12-year history”
   [[Thanks. Fixed.//KK]]

3. Dean says:

   August 3, 2011 at 4:15 pm

   The US Climate Extremes Index goes back 100 years and shows a fairly clear trend in drought in the contiguous US over that time period.
    
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/graph/3/01-12

4. grypo says:

   August 3, 2011 at 7:26 pm

   Kinda makes ya rethink the morally bankrupt “wuddabout the climate change winners”  argument, don’t it?  Yeah, that’s what it looks like.

5. Paul Callander says:

   August 4, 2011 at 2:01 am

   Very dissappointing. Do you even read what you reference? As D Robinson says  worst in 12 years means nothing especially as reconstructions of prior years e.g. the plots referenced by Dean show much worse periods in the 30s and 50s.

6. D. Robinson says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:17 am

   A good way to quantify this drought can be found herer:
    
   http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2011/08/texas-drought-a-fingerprint/
    
   Pretty bad!