Hansen is hoping to choke off the energy supply for the US economy, has declared that the game is over for climate again – and that the west is going to enter yet another permanent droughtflood.
Game Over for the Climate
By JAMES HANSEN
Published: May 9, 2012That is the long-term outlook. But near-term, things will be bad enough. Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought, with rain, when it does come, occurring in extreme events with heavy flooding. Economic losses would be incalculable. More and more of the Midwest would be a dust bowl. California’s Central Valley could no longer be irrigated. Food prices would rise to unprecedented levels.
If this sounds apocalyptic, it is. This is why we need to reduce emissions dramatically. President Obama has the power not only to deny tar sands oil additional access to Gulf Coast refining, which Canada desires in part for export markets, but also to encourage economic incentives to leave tar sands and other dirty fuels in the ground.
Precipitation has been increasing slightly in the southwest, and most of the last 30 years have been much wetter than the previous 30 years. Hansen has no idea what he is talking about.
SOUTHWEST REGION Climate Summary
I lived in New Mexico during the late 1950s, and it was much drier then.
h/t to Marc Morano
