Note to Yale Climate Connections – There Is no Link Between Droughts and Climate Change

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Note to Yale Climate Connections – There Is no Link Between Droughts and Climate Change
By Anthony Watts -May 16, 20231

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A May 11, 2023 opinion piece in Yale Climate Connections (YCC) titled, “Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?” link climate change and droughts in the United States. The opinion is provably false. There is no evidence climate change is making droughts in the United States worse.

The YCC article opens saying, “For tens of millions of Americans, drought has become an ever-present natural disaster.”


Figure 1: August 10, 2021, U.S. Drought map. Source: U.S. Drought Monitor
To bolster this claim, the article cites this August 10, 2021 graphic from the U.S. Drought Monitor:

The YCC goes off the rails by citing a U.S. drought map from nearly two years ago, while making arguments about drought in the present. When you access the map that they should have referenced for their May 11th, article, dated May 9, 2023, an entirely different picture emerges, as seen in figure 2 below:

https://climaterealism.com/2023/05/note-to-yale-climate-connections-there-is-no-link-between-droughts-and-climate-change/

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Obviously the deniers just don't understand the magical pixie dust qualities of that dastardly CO2. It can perform miracles beyond science. It's so powerful it's even racist because it attacks the BIPOC communities harder than whites.