CNN: Extreme natural events, not man-made climate change, led to last summer's historic drought in the Great Plains, a new federal study said Friday. Drought occurred in six Plains states between last May and August because moist Gulf of Mexico air "failed to stream northward in late spring," and summer storms were few and stingy with rainfall, said a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Neither ocean states nor human-induced climate change, factors that can provide long-lead......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
Study: Natural causes, not human activity, behind last summer’s Plains drought
Posted by CNN: Michael Martinez on April 12th, 2013
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.