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Tuesday, December 09, 2014
NOAA: Don't Blame Climate Change for Calif. Drought
Is humanity off the hook for California's
record-breaking drought? A new federal report says the drought, "while
extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," and is the result
of natural weather patterns instead of man-made climate change, reports
USA Today.
NOAA researchers say a major cause of the drought has been a warm, dry,
high-pressure ridge over the eastern Pacific and western US that has
blocked precipitation—and climate models say greenhouse gases should
have the opposite effect, causing slightly more precipitation in the
region instead of blocking it. "The report is not dismissive of global
warming at all," an NOAA meteorologist and study co-author says. "At the
same time, drought is not a consequence of the warming planet to date."
But
scientists not involved with the study accuse the NOAA researchers of
failing to take into account how warmer temperatures aggravated the
drought, including causing more moisture to evaporate from the ground...more
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