Dr Hansen wrote :
What’s happening to our climate? Was the heat wave and drought in the Eastern United States in 1999 a sign of global warming?
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_07/
Go figure ….. Amazing how another decade without warming has changed his mind.
Changed his mind?
I submit there is nothing to change.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste” – except when there is nothing to waste.