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NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts
An anonymous reader writes: Droughts in the western U.S. have been bad recently, but not as bad as they could be. Researchers from NASA, Cornell, and Columbia are now warning that if we don't slow the rate at which we produce greenhouse gases, then we're dramatically increasing our odds of a drought that lasts upwards of three decades. "The scientists were interested in megadroughts that took place between 1100 and 1300 in North America. These medieval-period droughts, on a year-to-year basis, were no worse than droughts seen in the recent past. But they lasted, in some cases, 30 to 50 years. When these past megadroughts are compared side-by-side with computer model projections of the 21st century, both the moderate and business-as-usual emissions scenarios are drier, and the risk of droughts lasting 30 years or longer increases significantly."
But that isn't science. Here is how science works I have learned this from the warming people.
1. Make predictions that are only testable after you retire
2. Look at predictions and complain that people are destroying the world.
3. When your predictions fail, let a new generation make new predictions and tell everyone this is how science works.
3A. If someone questions your process label them a denier and call them anti science.
Yes you genocidal twit.
Yes. Obscuring measurements by lying with statistics is more scientific. Guess what. I gave you one sample. Average a bunch of those and you can do your own statistics.
Just don't forget to apply a 'correction' to my measurement since I'm obviously biased and I must surely be wrong.
If you can't find it within yourself to see the value that science and the scientific method had brought us (in spite of the tireless stupidity of religion I might add) then you're nothing but a hypocrite.
This scientific method sounds pretty awesome. When are we going to use it on climatology?