There Is A Drought in Academia: A Drought in Honest Research on the Subject of Drought and Other Wea

[rangerrebew]

There Is A Drought in Academia: A Drought in Honest Research on the Subject of Drought and Other Weather Extremes
 
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Guest Contributor
September 29, 2026
 

Guest Post by Thomas J. Shepstone, originally posted at the ‘Energy Security and Freedom’ Substack.
A little over a year ago, a study titled “Warming Accelerates Global Drought Severity” was published in Nature, a climate-consumed journal that has lost all credibility among serious folks. The authors included multiple academics from the University of Oxford in the UK, an elitist institution if there ever was one.

The abstract of the study said this (emphasis and paragraphing added):

Drought is one of the most common and complex natural hazards affecting the environment, economies and populations globally. However, there are significant uncertainties in global drought trends, and a limited understanding of the extent to which a key driver, atmospheric evaporative demand (AED), impacts the recent evolution of the magnitude, frequency, duration and areal extent of droughts.

Here, by developing an ensemble of high-resolution global drought datasets for 1901–2022, we find an increasing trend in drought severity worldwide. Our findings suggest that AED has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally.

https://climaterealism.com/2026/09/there-is-a-drought-in-academia-a-drought-in-honest-research-on-the-subject-of-drought-and-other-weather-extremes/

[DefiantMassRINO]

That's why, back in the olden days, they built reservoirs, aqueducts, and irrigation canals.

These days, you can build de-salinization plants ... except in California, they'd rather let their state burn than do something that makes sense.

[rangerrebew]

That's why, back in the olden days, they built reservoirs, aqueducts, and irrigation canals.

These days, you can build de-salinization plants ... except in California, they'd rather let their state burn than do something that makes sense.

Does California do anything that makes sense?