Some corn farmers mow fields as drought worsens
July 11, 2012 at 9:24 am in Grand Forks Herald
Some cornstalks in fields around the farm where David Kellerman works stand tall, but appearances can be deceiving. When the husks are pulled back, the cobs are empty. No kernels developed as the plants struggled with heat and drought. Continue Reading
The latest research says instead of droughts evry 20 yrs. we see them every other year & by 2050 the west will be in permanent drought. Climate won’t return to normal for 1000 yrs. after we stop emission acceleration.
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Is that the same researchers who say that we have a 500 year flood every 500 years or so?
Looks like the Red River Valley has had alot of 500 year floods in the last two decades!
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Yes, that’s because extreme weather events will become more intense & frequent.
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“Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal “No”. Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et all, 2010) release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).” The preferred global estimates of the authors of these studies range from about 0.15 to 0.26 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates. It is 135 times larger than the highest preferred global volcanic CO2 estimate of 0.26 gigaton per year (Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998).”
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