Climate Change Doubles Drought Stricken Area

Cally writes "The National Atmospheric Research Center has published research showing that the percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, and attributing this to global climate change. Interestingly, the lead author comments that 'droughts and floods are extreme climate events that are likely to change more rapidly than the average climate'."

Comments

How can we monitor this?

[jgclark123]

Because they [floods and droughts] are among the world's costliest natural disasters and affect a very large number of people each year, it is important to monitor them and perhaps predict their variability.

Maybe we should use less satellites for cell phones and radios and use more for fixing our messed-up environment.