What the Data Shows About Drought 

Thank you Heartland for the truth❤

You are forgetting that progressives hate people. They are not interested in making hunger or poverty go away. They want you and I to go away.

71% of the planet is covered by water. Climate change has more to do with changing ocean temperatures than it does with changing land temperatures. 💧 💦 ♒️ 💧

The fossil fuel industry of course. The war in Ukraine drove the price of natural gas by 4X. It's back down now.

The Lefties are champions at language manipulation.

If you look at a photograph of Miami Beach in 1930 you'll be lucky to see a 5 story building. There wasn't much for a hurricane to destroy. Today the coast is lined with 75 story condos. There is simply vastly more expensive infrastructure for a hurricane to destroy. This is called the "bullseye effect". More people live in Dade and Broward County today than lived on the entire southern coast of the US in 1900.

That's only because California got extremely lucky with a couple of very robust wet winters.

Exactly the point. There is no drought

@@leensteed7861 You wait, it will be back again. Prior to last year California was in big trouble. But then again, there will always be deniers.

@@down-the-rabbit-hole The endless climate mantra: "Just you wait". Repeat decade after decade in perpetuity. In 1850 the population of California was 93,000. Only 130 years later in 1980 the population was 20 million. Today it's 40 million. 40 Million people living in a desert environment. Water shortages in California have zero to do with warming.

@@anthonymorris5084 true, but lack of rain does. I've lived here for over 50 years, and I can say with 100% certainty that it rains far less than it use to (not including last year of course). Also, the valley used to get constant fog during the winter time and now the fog rarely shows up compared to before. And hard freezes are far less common

But you can't deny that globally, the years 2023, 2016, 2020, 2019, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2018, 2014, 2010 2013, are the hottest since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, right?

The 1930s were the warmest period since the Little Ice Age ended in the mid-1800s was warmer and then the co2 levels were at 300 ppm and we had malaria in southern Sweden and it is a tropical disease.Then the co2 levels rose and it became cooler and the malaria disappeared.During fifty million years, the co2 levels have dropped from 7000 ppm to today's level of 420 ppm co2, and when we reach 150 ppm co2, all life on earth is gone.

@@klimatbluffen "The 1930s were the warmest period since the Little Ice Age ended". Here is how denier sites/blogs fool you. They post newspaper articles about past localized heat waves like the 1930's. It's called cherry-picking. The 1930’s were very hot years in the United States. However, global warming takes into account temperatures over the entire planet, including the oceans. The land area of the U.S. accounts for only 2% of Earth's total surface area. Despite the U.S. sweltering in the 30’s, those years were not especially hot over the rest of the planet. Globally, 1930 temperatures were actually cooler than average for the 20th century. You can confirm my comment by searching for. “NASA Science Briefs Whither U.S. Climate-NASA".

@@klimatbluffen Between 11,000 years ago and the year 1900 CO2 levels in our atmosphere were roughly 260 ppm to 280 ppm and plants did just fine. Today it’s over 420 ppm.

@@hosnimubarak8869 We still cannot live off agriculture in Greenland, which we could until the Little Ice Age hit in the thirteenth century.

You're confusing warming with over population. Your 29% rise in number and duration is a fallacy. More people use more water. People are depleting their resources. Deaths from natural disasters including all climate related disasters have been in precipitous decline for a hundred years. Over population especially in developing nations has caused resource depletion, deforestation, plant and animal habitat destruction, and famine. (which is caused by people not weather)

@@anthonymorris5084 "Your 29% rise in number and duration is a fallacy. More people use more water" Unfortunately, that is not the case. the Southwest United States is a perfect example. The cattle herd has shrunk to 1951 levels because there isn't any rain, not because there are more cattle. That's what happens when you put CO2 and CH4 into the atmosphere. Those gases redirect infrared photons back to Earth's surface causing an increase in evaporation. Those gases also transmit the infrared photons to N2 and O2 by mechanical means heating the atmosphere. A warmer atmosphere is able to retain a higher concentration of water vapor decreasing rainfall and cloud formation. This is most prevalent at the equator. The US's dry line used to be at the 100th meridian. Now it is at the 98th meridian heading east at about 100 miles per year.

@@spacescatatford The IPCC disagrees with you. Our World in Data disagrees with you. You've even demonstrated your contradiction. *"The cattle herd has shrunk to 1951 levels because there isn't any rain,"* So it was just as bad in 1951? It was far worse in the 1930's. Even if true you're willfully citing the negative and not citing the positive. Countless thousands of plants and animals are enjoying habitat expansion for the first time in modern history all due to warming. People shouldn't be farming in a desert environment of the South West. It's barren.

​@@anthonymorris5084As a former small cattle raiser I'll add the big increase in feed costs due mainly to using corn to make auto fuel instead of feed is a factor in reduction of cattle herds. I used to by cracked corn for $5 for 50# . Now you're lucky to find it for $11-50#. Time you add the other things to make a balanced feed, minerals etc., you barely make any profit. Now that the IRS has cut most deductions for small producers they're selling out in droves. ( pun intended.)

@@anthonymorris5084 "Our World in Data disagrees with you" Give me a website. "So it was just as bad in 1951?" Cattle herds were smaller due to demand. "Countless thousands of plants and animals are enjoying habitat expansion for the first time in modern history all due to warming. " Monitored populations of vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish) have seen a devastating 69% drop on average since 1970. "People shouldn't be farming in a desert environment of the South West. It's barren" It hadn't been in the past. Drought kills animal populations. The human population will continue to grow due to renewable production. On the mean, it would take about 6 years and 7 months to pay off the initial costs to manufacture and install a windmill. Afterward, on average, the windmill will generate electricity freely for another 19 years.