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To: koan who wrote (22474)	8/6/2012 7:47:52 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

when the states from Kansas to California burn up and the rivers dry out But I thought that Global Warming caused increased evaporation and thus increased levels of rain fall.

To: koan who wrote (22474)	8/6/2012 7:52:31 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Now weather events in the US do matter. But if the predictions don't happen you can say it will happen sometime in the future. You should realize this is just crying wolf and people are onto the tactic. As l&s showed you it was only a few decades ago that Hanson and NASA were predicting a a new ice age. As for the things you mentioned, remember we have to get hotter and drier than the 1930's dust bowl years before you can claim this is happening due to AGW. I'll give you the best prediction you'll ever see ... somewhere in the world in the coming year there will be blizzards and heavy snowfalls, heat waves, droughts, forest fires, floods, tropical storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and AGW alarmists will point at everyone of those things and say, See, what more do you need? We're facing catastrophe if we don't adopt a crash course to change the entire energy basis of our civilization.

To: koan who wrote (22474)	8/6/2012 7:57:42 PM
From: TopCat	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

"Well, we will see how people feel when the states from Kansas to California burn up and the rivers dry out, the fish die and people don't havbe enough water to drink." Besides crying like a baby....what do you plan on doing about it?

To: koan who wrote (22474)	8/7/2012 12:00:16 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

The NOAA has a feature allowing one to plot the Palmer Modified Drought Index from the 1890's to today. You can plot it for the contiguous US, individual states or regions. Negative numbers signify droughts. It looks like your prediction ( the states from Kansas to California burn up and the rivers dry out, the fish die and people don't havbe enough water to drink) is unlikely to come true. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/time-series/index.php?parameter=pmdi&month=6&year=2012&filter=12&state=110&div=0