“WASHINGTON — The overall temperature of the Earth rose sharply this year, signaling the beginning of the “greenhouse effect” and significantly increasing the likelihood of droughts and heatwaves in the Southeast and Midwest, a NASA scientist told the Senate.”
June 24, 1988
24 Jun 1988, 1 – The Miami News at Newspapers.com
The most severe drought in the Midwest occurred in July 1934, and the wettest period was January 2020.
ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20231206
Those two Palmer Index maps… It’s like something out of a Steinbeck novel…
Ah, yes – the long-touted ‘desertification’ that never occurred. I remember well, all those photos of dried-up lake beds with wide cracks. That was when I was an ignorant believer, before I began to study the subject. Now I’m a heretic, a denier, and ‘deplorable’ – because I can no longer be manipulated. Disillusionment is a good thing.