Chuck Rice, a professor of soil microbiology and a climate change expert at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, says there is no doubt that droughts are cyclical but temperatures clocked last year in the most recent dry spell have beaten historical records.
“The records weren’t just slightly broken; they were significantly higher,” he said.
Kansas drought part of natural cycle, say farmers – The Irish Times – Mon, Feb 18, 2013
Complete bullshit. Kansas temperatures have been declining for 90 years, and the 1930s were much hotter than the past decade.
2012 didn’t even rank in the top five for record temperatures in Kansas.
I wonder how many of those “since 1920” stations have had their records tickled upward because the field the station was in is now a parking lot.
Well, he’s not from Kansas:
http://www.agronomy.ksu.edu/p.aspx?tabindex=69&tabid=407&ItemID=237&mid=74&staff_category=Faculty