You often hear that climate leads to more widespread drought
Yet data shows trend towards *smaller area* in drought.
Read my 2020 peer-reviewed article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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In the #AR5 Summary for Policymakers, drought was one of of the very few climate indicators showing deterioration (but only on a regional scale). This sheds new light on that. Result is that we’re left with just increased heatwaves which is logical enough.
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"Nevertheless, existing studies of forests that are based on tree-ring chronologies or forest inventories indicate increased drought-related effects on environmental systems." (1/2)
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That's a really excellent article, thank you!
One point: in section 3.3 you mention "the loss of ocean fisheries" as result of acidification.
But these meta-analysis show zero or positive effects on fish specifically:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111
Off subject tweet. Proof earth has been cooling in the last month. Global sea ice was 2.1 million square kilometres on Nov 7th. Now that loss has shrunk to 1.88 million square kilometres. On Nov 7th we had more energy in the atmosphere than the sun provides. Now we have less.
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Hypothesis: annual rainfall increases, but only in two months of the year and falls in the remainder.
Is ten months of low rainfall a drought?
(I live in one of those small areas for half the year.)
To be honest, I often heart that Climate Change causes anything and everything.
Could you provide the source for this? I've dug through google trying to find Watts et. al.,2018 and the source that's attached to the image in your study does not discuss severe drought area or provide that data.
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