Record Heat And Drought Fuel Chaotic Wildfire In Arizona, Killing 19 Firefighters

[nic34]

global warming? what global warming?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...-firefighters/




Ok now, you are all free to post your stupid what global warming? articles this winter when you all get your first snow storm.....

[Peter1469]

Earth temps have been flat the last 15 years. We covered that extensively in another thread.

[Chris]

global warming? what global warming?

I think you said it all already.

Midwest has been having a heatwave. I was wheelbarrowing dirt last Saturday and the heat got unbearable. Turned out it was 109 degrees! Next day it rained and cooled everything down.

[Mainecoons]

In the 14th century a period of extreme heat and drought struck the SW. It was so bad that the cliff dwelling indians had to move down to the few rivers that were still running.

I'm seeing some climate experts predicting that this situation is in the process of repeating itself. Certainly the Mountain west is in a very prolonged drought.

I guess there were too many sport utes running around back in the 14th century. Yep, that has to be the explanation.

[Common]

There are too many variable in weather changes, experts are split and disagree whether there is or isnt global warming. When I was a kid they told us we were going to freeze to death and we were going to have another iceage.
Scientists in my humble opinion are prone to sensationalism and they need to create need to keep getting all that grant money which is how most make a living. Im not ready to buy into global warming and this intense need to spend billions.

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says dat looks like a space spidey crawlin' outta crater, possum hidin' behind the couch...

US Southwest faces threat of megadroughts with rising temps
October 5, 2016 — A new study says the Southwest region of the United States faces the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise.

Researchers found the risk is reduced if heat-trapping gases are curbed. Dry spells lasting at least two decades have gripped the Southwest before, but scientists said future megadroughts would be hotter and more severe.

Irrigation pipes sit along a dry irrigation canal on a field farmed by Gino Celli, who relies on senior water rights to water his crops, near Stockton, Calif. New research published on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 found that increasing temperatures will greatly increase the risk of megadroughts in the Southwest region of the U.S. Oppressive dry spells lasting at least two decades have gripped the Southwest before, but scientists said future megadroughts would be hotter and more severe, putting a strain on water resources.

The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. The Colorado River basin, which spans parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Mexico, has been in the midst of a historic drought for the past 16 years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-southw...15.html?ref=gs

[waltky]

They need the relief...

California rains might be end of years-long drought
Sat, Jan 14, 2017 - A series of storms that have rolled across California in the past week dumping heavy rain and snow could herald the end of a punishing historic drought, officials said on Thursday.

“Bye bye Drought. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” tweeted the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada, which monitors parts of northern California, the area hardest hit by the storms. According to the US Drought Monitor, all of northern California is now free of drought, but much of the southern part of the state remains dry, with about 30 percent of the region still in extreme or exceptional drought conditions. “In southern California, we’ve had the highest rainfall in at least five years and in northern California it’s the highest rainfall in at least 10 years,” US National Weather Service weather specialist Tom Fisher said. “For example, if you go up to Santa Rosa, which is up in Sonoma County, normally they would have about three inches [7.5cm] of rain for the month so far, and they’ve had 11 inches,” Fisher said, adding that the same scenario was playing out across much of the state.

That is a far cry from a year ago, when California was reeling from a severe five-year drought that left water reservoirs empty, helped spark huge wildfires and led to severe water restrictions. However, authorities said that although nature was looking greener and the water reservoirs were filling up, it was still too early to cry victory. “California’s rainy season goes through April, so we’re not out of the woods yet,” Fisher said.

Ted Thomas, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water Resources, said he was cautiously optimistic and added that the impact of the long drought could not be erased overnight. “In California, we have a long history of changing weather conditions, in which for example we start with a very wet winter and end up extremely dry,” he told reporters. “This is a very large state and conditions are different in different areas.”

The office of California Governor Jerry Brown, who proclaimed a drought-related state of emergency in 2014, also said it was too soon to call the drought over. “It’s early in the water season and we know from experience that storms can cease,” California Natural Resources Agency spokeswoman Nancy Vogel told reporters.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../14/2003663096