Prof. Pielke Jr. on new Nature drought study: ‘It means that a widely accepted and oft-repeated consensus position expressed in IPCC 2007 now appears to have been incorrect’
Pielke Jr.: 'This should not be unexpected as a consensus position is a snapshot of perspectives, and in science, perspectives can change based on new evidence and study...This places drought into a category with tropical cyclones, floods, tornadoes & other phenomena where the evidence does not support claims that things are progressively getting worse -- with more frequent and intense extreme events on climate time scales'
