FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN
By PHILIP SHABECOFF, Special to the New York Times
Published: December 07, 1988A warming of the planet resulting from pollution of the atmosphere will make drought much more frequent and storms much fiercer, new data presented today at a conference on climate change indicate.
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.
Five of the worst drought years in US history occurred during the 1950s. The odds of drought were 2:1, not 20:1
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I used to think that Hansen was suffering from old-age dementia, but apparently he has never understood what was going on around him.
Actually, if you look more carefully at the graph, the odds of drought during the 1950 decade was much greater than 2:1, at least 5:3, and as you so aptly illustrate, much worse droughts than any others. Notice also the 1930 decade was nothing but drought.
Reblogged this on The Firewall and commented:
“Dr. Hansen, Lies, Dances on Head of Pin, Threatens Nukes”
http://libertyfirewall.com/2013/04/20/dr-hansen-lies-dances-on-head-of-pin-threatens-nukes/
Did Hansen hit his head repeatedly on a sidewalk in 1988?
Paul Ehrlich senate testimony 1974, page 269-
“When meteorologists talk about normal weather, by convention internationally they’re talking about the average weather period 1930 to 1960. It turns out that was the most extreme period of good weather in the last 1000 years. We are now clearly coming down off of that peak.”
Yellow = Good weather
Green = Dirty weather
I reasoned with my state climatologist, and he stopped using the word ‘normal’ when discussing weather and climate. He now uses the correct term ‘average’. Logic and truth wins hearts and minds.
Ehrlich was still wrong. See the Little Ice Age storms.