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John Kerry says global warming is happening faster than predicted.

“Everything the scientists have told us will happen is happening but bigger and faster than predicted,” Kerry said during a speech in London at the Royal Botanic Gardens, saying worsening droughts, wildfires, and flooding events amount to a “world in chaos.”

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He also says the Arctic will be ice-free by 2014.

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Three weeks ago Jonathan Overpeck said the southwest got over 115F and the US was experiencing its first megadrought. He predicted “yet another extreme wildfire year.”

Extreme heat and the ongoing aridification of the West | TheHill

Twenty-four states have been over 115F, and all occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM.

Much of the southwest is now flooded.

With lots more rain in the forecast.

10-Day Precipitation Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Despite the flooding, NOAA is still showing the southwest in drought.

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Though nowhere near magnitude of the drought of 1934, which covered 80% of the country.

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The 1934 drought was worldwide.

During 1934, the world experienced unprecedented drought and heat.

22 Jun 1934, Page 3 – Hartford Courant at Newspapers.com

04 Jun 1934 – WORLD DROUGHT – Trove

19 Jul 1934 – DROUGHT IN ENGLAND. – Trove

The western US has had many megadroughts, lasting hundreds of years.

“Scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say that California has had multiple droughts of 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — and two severe “megadroughts” of 180 years and 240 years.”

Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News

Ancient Trees Reflect Century-Long Droughts : Environment: Analysis of stumps’ rings shows that dry spells can last far longer than the state has estimated, expert says. – latimes

Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times

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Overpeck wrote a paper in 1994 saying that droughts in Africa were much worse 3,000 years ago.

“For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.”

“The lead authors of the report, Timothy M. Shanahan of the University of Texas at Austin and Jonathan T. Overpeck of the University of Arizona, warned that global warming resulting from human-generated greenhouse gases was likely to exacerbate those droughts”

Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa – NYTimes.com