Comments on: Edward Cook says U.S. Southwest may suffer sustained drought http://earthsky.org/earth/southwests-climate-history-suggests-future-drought-possible A Clear Voice for Science Thu, 24 May 2012 13:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: R.D. (Dick) Garneau http://earthsky.org/earth/southwests-climate-history-suggests-future-drought-possible/comment-page-1#comment-15139 R.D. (Dick) Garneau Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:53:06 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=4455#comment-15139 Edward Cook's best work is his email to Keith Briffa September 3, 2003 source 'Climate-Gate email leaks' Edward Cook’s best work is his email to Keith Briffa September 3, 2003
source ‘Climate-Gate email leaks’

]]> By: Hank http://earthsky.org/earth/southwests-climate-history-suggests-future-drought-possible/comment-page-1#comment-7001 Hank Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:20:31 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=4455#comment-7001 <p>Edward Cook’s comment: “Over the past thousand years in the West, there have been profound periods of drought lasting decades to a century or more. So we know that the natural climate system, independent of human activities, is capable of locking itself into long-term dry episodes” seems to close the case that the decade long drought seen in America’s desert Southwest isn’t out of the normal.</p> <p>Regarding the comment on global warming increasing the trend… If droughts lasting a century or more are recorded in the geological history of the region prior to man, where is the tie-in? Now that we are in a period of global cooling that may last for several decades longer, would the decrease in temperatures potentially move the region towards a wetter climate system or is the relationship too disconnected or complex to make such a prediction?</p> Edward Cook’s comment: “Over the past thousand years in the West, there have been profound periods of drought lasting decades to a century or more. So we know that the natural climate system, independent of human activities, is capable of locking itself into long-term dry episodes” seems to close the case that the decade long drought seen in America’s desert Southwest isn’t out of the normal.

Regarding the comment on global warming increasing the trend… If droughts lasting a century or more are recorded in the geological history of the region prior to man, where is the tie-in? Now that we are in a period of global cooling that may last for several decades longer, would the decrease in temperatures potentially move the region towards a wetter climate system or is the relationship too disconnected or complex to make such a prediction?

]]> By: a p garcia http://earthsky.org/earth/southwests-climate-history-suggests-future-drought-possible/comment-page-1#comment-7000 a p garcia Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:37:12 +0000 http://208.96.63.114/?p=4455#comment-7000 <p>When I lived in Phoenix, it was always short of water.0t has been parched in the Phoenix area for the last 100,000 years and global warming has nothing to do with it. Those Dinos and their Hummers.</p> When I lived in Phoenix, it was always short of water.0t has been parched in the Phoenix area for the last 100,000 years and global warming has nothing to do with it. Those Dinos and their Hummers.

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