“Climate is changing faster than it has in the history of Western civilization,” (Hayhoe) said.
Less than four weeks ago, Katherine Hayhoe announced climate doom for Texas.
APRIL 22, 2015
environmental activists and reporters began to ask whether “drought”—a temporary weather pattern—was really the right term for what was happening in the state, or whether “desertification” was more appropriate. “We’re on our fourth year of drought,” Katharine Hayhoe, director of the climate science center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, told the industry magazine Meatingplace. “In order to replenish depleted reservoirs and soil moisture, we don’t need just a normal year or just a single rainfall. We need an unusually wet year to get back to normal conditions.” But the early months of 2015 have seen less than 1.4 inches of total precipitation—not even a third of what is considered normal rainfall, much less enough to replenish surface water and groundwater resources.
Lubbock has had close to double their normal rainfall over the past year.
No part of Texas is experiencing drought.
Texas temperatures peaked in 1921. There is nothing even the slightest bit unusual going on in Texas, other than a long hurricane drought.
Like most climate scientists, Katherine believes that all random neuron discharges in her brain actually mean something.