Reply #7: A few facts [View All]

[Uben]

I live at a small lake in Texas, and we just ended a two year drought. It rained around us, but we seemed to miss it every time.
It's over, the lake is full, as are all the other lakes in the area. Some were down 26 ft.

The American southwest is now in a drought. But, it is not the exception, but rather the norm. For the last two hundred years, the American southwest has been unusually wet. That was the exception. Now, it is just reverting back to it's "normal" status.....very dry and arid. Climate is cyclical...periods of dry and periods of wet. But these periods can last hundreds and more commonly, thousands of years. The American southwest was inhabited during a short wet period, because there was enough water available to sustain life for humans.

I am not discounting global warming, the evidence is there to support it. I am just saying the current dryness is the norm on the grand scale of climate in the American southwest.

This, of course, does not explain the receding glaciers worldwide, which in my opinion is due to global warming. I believe it is irreversible, and think we are in for hundreds, and more likely thousands of years of warmer climate.

Buy a fan. It's gonna be a long ride.