New peer-reviewed paper finds no link between 2012 Great Plains drought & anthropogenic global warming — Published in Geophysical Research Letters
Study 'finds the 2012 extreme Great Plains drought was within the natural variability of climate and that there is no evidence of a link to AGW. According to the authors, "it is concluded that the extreme Great Plains drought did not require extreme external forcings [i.e. anthropogenic global warming], and could plausibly have arisen from atmospheric noise [natural variability] alone." The four authors hail from different divisions of NOAA, which is a 'denier' according to James Hansen.Do Extreme Climate Events Require Extreme Forcings?Arun Kumar, Mingyue Chen, Martin Hoerling, Jon Eischeid'
