If the weather is pleasant,
or cold, that's just weather.
If the weather is unpleasant,
or warm, that's "climate change" !
Three scary photographs
are often used for
climate alarmism:
(1)
White smoke coming out of
a chimney, or cooling tower,
which is implied to be CO2
( CO2 is actually invisible ),
but is really water vapor.
(2)
A starving polar bear,
for people who have no clue
what polar bears typically
look like before they die
of old age, and
(3)
A parched, cracked landscape
symbolizing a drought.
When droughts appear,
people instinctively
connect them to climate
change, even if they have
no clear reason to do so.
There's a new study
of the historical India
drought patterns.
India recently had a
very long (41 month)
spell of drought.
It was the
longest drought
since the 1870s
(when records begin).
But not very intense
compared to the
17 other droughts
in the last 150 years.
The study finds
there have been
18 droughts
in India since 1870,
of which 5 were
intense enough
to be deadly.
Those five
occurred in:
1899,
1876,
2000,
1918,
1965.
All but one happened
more than 50 years ago.
The author compared
the drought dates to
sea-surface temperature
records, and found they
were strongly associated
with the El Nino cycle,
which is natural cycle
in the Pacific Ocean.
The paper makes
almost no mention
of climate change
or global warming.
And provides
no reason to believe
the drought trend
is getting worse.
In fact, because the worst India
droughts happened a long time
ago, you could conclude that
the drought trend is getting better !