Um, oops?
The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study’s author.
In the United States, the main culprit currently is a cold cycle in the surface temperature of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It decreases precipitation, especially over the western part of the country. “We had a similar situation in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s,†said Dai, who works at the research center’s headquarters in Boulder, Colo.
How in the hell is that “global warming”?
The Pacific cycle is expected to last for the next one or two decades, bringing more aridity. On top of that comes climate change. “Global warming has a subtle effect on drought at the moment,†Dai said, “but by the end of the cold cycle, global warming might take over and continue to cause dryness.â€
Ah. Despite nature being nature, globull warming could possibly maybe might happen. Of course. Have to keep that money train rollin’.
