Ten years ago Al Gore said more than half of the US was in drought for the first time.
“For the first time since their record-keeping began 12 years ago, the US Drought Monitor reports that more than half of the lower 48 states are in drought:”
Al’s Journal : Over Half the US is in Drought
More than half of the US is in drought quite often, including most of the 1950s.
In 1988, NASA’s James Hansen said droughts were rare in the 1950s.
Dr. James E. Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who presented recent data compiled from computer models, said that predicted regional effects of global warming show that the chances of summer drought in the low and middle latitudes would be 1 in 3 by the year 2030, as against 1 in 20 in the 1950’s.
- James Hansen 1988
