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Originally Posted by cmac2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/oct/26/amazon-drought-brazil
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100720/full/466423a.html
A once-in-a-century drought struck much of the Amazon rainforest in 2005, reducing rainfall by 60–75% in some areas — and giving scientists a window on to a future coloured by climate change.
The drought foreshadowed the Amazon drying that many climate modellers expect to see in a warmer world. But five years on, a spate of research, including 13 papers published on 20 July in a special issue of the journal New Phytologist , shows that researchers are still grappling with the impact of drought and what it could reveal about the fate of the world's largest tropical forest, a major carbon storehouse.
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Being that in the article it is actually referred to as "A once-in-a-century drought" shouldn't we be expecting such an occurrence fairly often in geological/climatological terms? When was the last climatological fluctuation the resulted in similar "once-in-a-century drought" conditions, perhaps this most recent instance is long overdue, no?
Isn't this just "Chicken Little" screaming "this is how it will be if the sky does fall"? The fact that it is occurring in no way supports MMGW because by its very definition it's a fairly regular "a once-in-a-century" event!
The first link is a series of pictures how compelling, almost like the fake published in "Science", poor polar bear on the little ice flow so loved by the tree hugger/human haters.
Reading the article illuminates that not only are conditions such as this drought a manifestation of normal climatological fluctuation but the actual effects on the environment are of uncertain overall impact.
Hasn't the Nobel Prize winning "Himalayan Glaciers Will Vanish by 2035" hoax/fraud/error/mistake taught the MMGW hysterics anything?
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