Thanks for the replies. I didn't really think that Booker's point,
even if true, was the game-changing move he billed it as. (His
description of the recent NASA temperature correction as "fundamental"
is a good indication of where he's coming from.)
Still, the decrease in frequencies of extreme droughts seemed counter
to expectations. I note though, that the Narisma paper doesn't take
post-1995 droughts into consideration. At the end of the day, however,
there just seem to be too few data points to make a good call. It's
much the same with tropical cyclones, though, isn't it.
On Sep 11, 9:14 pm, Roger Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 11, 1:55 am, William M Connolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ . . . ]> Indeed. Anything that starts off "Al Gore said..." rather than
> "The IPCC
> > says..." is dubious. But then again, why is Gore burbling about droughts
> > without
> > something to back him up?
>
> The trouble with Gore as a source on droughts, or
> any other global warming issue, are the same that
> one has with the popular press, a lack of details
> with impressions attempting to replace them.
> Gore has a particular problem with timescales,
> he describes a catastrophe, but never says when
> we are to expect his prediction.
>
> We may be looking at the same problem with
> unspecified timescales in Gleick's statement.
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