Hansen :
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
By James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato — August 1999
Hayhoe :
Floods, Droughts Are ‘New Normal’
“It’s a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we’re seeing,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University told
reporters.
Drought peaked during the 1930s. The last 50 years has seen much less drought than the previous 50 years. The new normal is for people like Katherine Hayhoe to talk confidently about things they obviously know little about.
Contiguous U.S., Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), July 1895-2011
Does Katherine really believe her own words? If so she is delusional, if not she is a fraud.
“Floods, Droughts Are ‘New Normal’” – Hayhoe
They’re the old normal too.
If you could spout nonsense for lots of cash would you do it?
They, obviously, are experts.
Hayhoe is staking her claim to become the world’s leading calamitologist. Nobel prizes are on the line…..