AP/Yahoo - More than 60 percent of U.S. in drought

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By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer

STEELE, N.D. - More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln

An area stretching from south central North Dakota to central South Dakota is the most drought-stricken region in the nation, Svoboda said.

"It's the epicenter," he said. "It's just like a wasteland in north central South Dakota."

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"We're all wondering how we're going to stay alive this winter if the farmers don't make any money this summer," she said.

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Climate change...WHAT climate change!? Here in Virginia we've had an unusually hot and dry summer but thankfully we've gotten some good rains in the last month. Those midwest farmers are getting hit HARD.

The GD post included that part.

Global warming cause the 30's one too? Just checking. I'm a firm believer in the scientific method, wherever it takes a person.

In my area it's rained pretty much nonstop all spring and summer. It's been damn hot though.

If only all our rain could be sent up to the Dakotas.

No many crops to be harvested there.

Interestingly, it's GOP territory. Maybe farmers there will finally be convinced about the power of human behavior on the planet. Maybe, just maybe, farmers observations will be felt in Nov. though I won't hold my breath.

...that global warming will be marked by increasingly extreme change. Some areas will be wetter, some dryer; others hotter, while still others cooler. And we'll see, as we did last year, more violent storms than before. We had 3 of the strongest North American hurricanes ever seen last year (Wilma, Rita, and Katrina, in that order, are in the top 6 strongest hurricanes ever measured). Expect more.

Where I lived, it used to get bitterly cold with a foot or more of snow each winter. I haven't seen more than a couple of inches on the ground, and that for only a few days, in the last six winters.

are profiting BIG TIME. Ridiculously big time.

The whole world can go into a big ball of flame but they and their families (through their money hoards - through which they can afford the best state of the art bunker technology and filtering technology and self defence weaponry and the bodyguards to use them) have the best chance of anyone to survive it all.

Money?

:yoiks:

that movie again!

"Water. Liberals are worried we're going to run out of something that literally falls from the sky. Here's an idea: Just wait. It will rain. Every possible personal use of water combined -- steam baths, swimming pools, showers, toilets, and kitchen sinks -- amounts to 10 percent of all water usage. Agricultural use accounts for about 70 percent of water usage and industrial use more than 20 percent."

From Page 8 of mAnn Coulter's plagiarized book that dare not speak its name.

But I've stopped listening to many of the nay sayers.

Last decade I moved to Rochester, NY. It was dry. It had been dry for a few years. The trees were dropping their leaves before the frosts hit because they had no water and were drying. Wells were running dry.

They were really a downer when it came to water table information. It would take years, (years, we tell you--years!) for it to return to normal. Even if there was above average rainfall, it wouldn't percolate right. It was a catastrophe, and even if we had a couple of wet years, it would still leave farmers in a precarious position.

We had a honking wet 10 months. The following fall the water table was above normal levels, they were concerned that the ground was too wet to take more rain. All mention of the water table was muted.

It's not that it frequently rained hard, it just rained often. And it wasn't vastly above average.

So all this climate news much be a whacko liberal conspiracy.

After all, commander AWOL and his corrupt oil-crony republicons are making BIG BUCKS just now selling hard-working American citizens $3.10 gas.

So just shut up and sit down about this drought news, you nattering nabobs of negativity.

drought to the extent that water had to be brought in. Barely any dirty water to flush, much less clean water to drink. I can even remember the tap water getting a bit nasty in a city with 300,000 people due to drought.

Coulter is an ignorant slut.

Soon, very soon (maybe even sooner than I thought) wars will be fought and lost over water. Millions will perish. Water & energy will be the big issues of the 21st Century. And the Neocon's thought it was about America!!!

I'd like to take credit for this, but the credit actually goes to Gerald Celente
www.trendsresearch.com

and www.fromthewilderness.com

My Dads backyard has been flooded twice this year. When I took the kids and cousins down to Carlsbad last week I was astounded by how GREEN everything was. I grew up in this state and have never seen it sooo green and lush.


WTF?

Farmers and ranchers are very worried.

...before they voted for such anti-environmental legislators.

in reference to global warming, 'as long as it (meaning steps to reverse it, never mind admitting it!) doesn't hurt business!?

But then he doesn't care about the small-business farmers, he's long been planning to cut subsidies to them; with the full knowledge that many, then, will fail.
But all this will be done AFTER the Mid-Term elections of course.

You want to see the furor when his conservative, religious base in the Heartland is betrayed?

Oh. My. God.

What a unimaginative, short-sighted, idiotic fool.

I mean senator Inhofe.

... so they don't care about global warming or anything else that might happen in the near future. The rapture will save them from the consequences of their crimes, or so they think. The current conflagration in the Middle East has them all a - twitter because they think its one of the signs that the rapture is imminent. Of course they thought the same thing about the '67 Arab Israeli war and the '70s Yom Kippur war too and nobody swooped up into the clouds after those.

If the rapture ever happens the monsters of ego who flaunt "in case of rapture this car will be driverless" bumper stickers will be in for quite a surprise when they find themselves left behind on an earth populated by serial killers, pedophiles, oil company executives, and Karl Rove.