By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Yet more lies from the BBC:
The area of land surface affected by extreme drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed.
Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to analysis by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – up from an average of 15% during the 1980s.
Almost a third of the world – 30% – experienced extreme drought for three months or longer in 2023. In the 1980s, the average was 5%.
The new study offers some of the most up-to-date global data on drought, marking just how fast it is accelerating.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvje458rvo
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However, go behind the headlines and you will see that is not a simple matter of blaming climate change. In reality, the lack of water is largely down to how humans use the land:
But this does not prevent the BBC blaming climate change:
The report goes on to give the example of South Sudan:
Which is all very strange, since precipitation there has increased since the 1980, and is now back to levels seen between 1900 and 1960:
We are familiar with these junk studies from the Lancet, and this one at first sight looks just as bad.
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October 31, 2024 at 10:06AM
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