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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."
Consider the consequences for Wall Street: record highs in all indices. Lots of hedge funds making lots of money for a few rich people.
Now apply that money creation technology to government's finances. Think of a bank taking your deposits and creating a bunch of money with it. You don't think that you have to pay for all those promises the bank makes, do you? If banks reported a "debt to GDP" it would be on the order of thousands of percent, much higher than any government.
Indexation serves as a hedge against inflation. Index savings too, to eliminate any inflation tax. Thus purchasing power does not decrease, no matter how high inflation gets. Basically you automate everything so that inflation becomes irrelevant to people living their daily lives.
Eventually the sociopathic businessman raising prices just because he can gives up, because creating artificial inflation doesn't get him the attention he's seeking.
Better ask those middle ages people to stop burning fossil fuels and stop having kids then. Oh wait.
These AGW stories keep getting more pathetic as time goes by. I don't remember a year as wet as this one in 30 years.
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.
"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.
It clearly was mans fault back then. anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
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.
Those damn NASA scientists trying to put one over on old cheesybagel, you betcha.
That's an appeal to authority argument PopeRatzo.
Your parents should have read to you the fable of the Emperor's New Clothes.
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?