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‘Clear, Statistical Evidence’: 130 Scientists From Iowa Schools Blame Recent Drought on Climate Change

Nov. 19, 2012 9:13pm Erica Ritz

Scientists From Iowa Colleges, Universities Blame Global Warming for Drought | Climate Change

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(TheBlaze/AP) — More than 130 scientists from Iowa colleges and universities say this year’s drought is consistent with a warmer climate predicted as part of global climate change, and that more droughts should be expected.

Scientists and researchers from 27 Iowa colleges and universities signed the Iowa Climate Statement released Monday, which claims global warming causes wet years to be wetter and dry years to be dryer. Those extremes lead to more flooding and drought, which Iowa has experienced both in recent years.

The state was particularly hard hit this year when drought spread across two-thirds of the country.

Reuters relates:

Christopher Anderson, the assistant director of Iowa State University’s climate science program, says there is “clear, statistical evidence” that extreme high temperatures are happening more often than extreme low temperatures in Iowa.

“Since 1981, the likelihood of severely wet springs has more than doubled. What was once a one-in-10-year wet spring is now occurring two to three times in every 10 years,” he said. “Yet 2012 reminds us that dry summers can still happen. The 2012 July and August statewide rainfall was the lowest since 1976.”

Jerald Schnoor, co-director of the University of Iowa’s Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, said state policymakers should use 2012 climate data to make new decisions, like doubling wind energy production and using methane from livestock manure and city sewage treatment plants.

“We have confidence in recent findings that climate change is real and having an impact on the Iowa economy and on our natural resources,” Schnoor said.

The scientists say warming will continue as global emissions increase and greenhouse gases accumulate, and that action is needed to prevent more natural disasters.

The statement urges: “Iowa should lead innovation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improve resilience in agriculture and communities, and move towards greater energy efficiency and increased use of renewable energy.”

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:17am
These clowns better hope they are not trying to get a job as an engineer. There’s these things called “data points”. Let’s say that we Creationists are right about the earth’s age than that data sample would be 0.516% sample. If the evolutionists or old earthers are correct, then the sample is .00000016% sample. Hardly able to predict a trend off of that sample.

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- Metalstr8jckt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:17pm
  Earth’s Climate is currently warming just like it does every 10,000 years or so, in it’s normal cycle.
  
  Methane gas rises into the atmosphere from plants and animals decay and farts- normally, like it has for 800 million years.
  
  Volcanic eruptions, and normal venting from below earth’s surface kick up billions of tons of various gases like sulfur and others like oxides of nitrogen. Co2, etc. far exceeding all the engines and power-plants of man-kind combined.
  
  The “emission of lies” from Marxists “greenies” who want to control your energy usage is still prolific, and increasing in their “Warming” rhetoric.
  The planet is continuing to behave normally, indifferent to mankind’s tiny greenhouse gas emissions contributions.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:19pm
  The MilkeyWayGallaxy is an EXPANDING system. You do Not get warmer by walking away from your ownly source of heat/energy!! As the plannets fly towards the “exit”, they “wabble” in their non-perfect orbbits. This has happened about a billion times in earth’s history. The plannets and moons “wabble” on their axcis’s every so many rotations(days,yrs,centuries,etc..)! BUT ALL are STILL floating AWAY from their SUN=ONLY HEAT SOURCE. There are only “less-cool” times which appear to a civillization (only maybe 1million years-old) as warming and cooling times…the same as happens when day goes into night only much slower and less frequent. “TheWorld is at an END!!” because of seeing an ECLIPS for the FIRST time!!
  
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Tickdog
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:30am
awwww and there i thought it was Bush’s fault…

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zapparules
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:17am
Someone better tell our military this is all a scam since they are taking action to address it – and even have said climate change may be the top threat to our national security.

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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:28am
  military knows ALL about it ,,,
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:31am
  I’m moving to Montana soon! Gonna be a dental floss tycoon!!!!!
  
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- bobdog19006
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:53am
  I have here incontrovertible statistical proof that the drought last summer was caused by an overpopulation of client scientists in the midwest. All the heat generated by those uncontrolled thought waves caused a disturbance in the Force and confused the ether.
  
  Prove me wrong.
  
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- Metalstr8jckt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:34pm
  @ZAPPARULES: The Communist/global warming controllers are mandating “Environmentally friendly” non lead based bullets now. (Kill your enemy with respect for mother nature!)
  
  This is laughable because lead can sit in water and not leach into it. It is a naturally occurring substance.
  
  Lead based silver solder used in copper piping in homes, pose more of a threat for people to metal/toxicity contamination than lead fishing weights or bullets.
  
  Junk science for sheeple to control them and ‘redistribute’ their cash to the needy like Al Gore.
  
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jessieH
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:00am
The climate changes four times a year, every year. I must be a scientist.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Looks like a mini-version of THE DUSTBOWL IN THE THIRTIES. Every hundred-some-years tis happens because of EARTH-AXIS WOBBLE. Our “orbit” is ELIPTICAL and not “flat”-inline with the other pannetary-orbits. Thus, many variations occur in angles of receiving sun-energy.
  
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Uechi
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:43am
Bull crap. I believe in climate change. It is a natural cycle that the Earth has gone through since the planet’s formation. It is the height of arrogance to think that man has changed that cycle. The so called science of Climate change is far from settled except in the eyes of left wing professors. As far as statistics, you can prove anything with statistics, all you hvae to do is manipulate the data. Of course the left would never do that, yeah right!

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- MCGIRV
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:09pm
  Right on!
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:13am
Really?… There have always been droughts and the terrain in different parts of the world has been shifting and altering since the dawn of time. None of the continents are even close to WHERE they used to be never-mind WHAT they used to be…
The Middle East used to be full of lush gardens and forests…

Iowa should know better…. remember the “Dust Bowl” guys?…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

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- bpodlesnik
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:53am
  You should know better than to cite Wikipedia.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:37am
  BPODLESNIK….
  
  1ST of all smart-ass.. i didn’t CITE wikipedia because their was no information in my post that was taken from that source or any other because it was all common knowledge..
  I DIRECTED people to Wiki in case they wanted general knowledge of the subject, which Wiki is more than OK for.
  
  But if YOU’ve never heard of the DustBowl and want reliable source information on it YOU plan to quote, then here you go:
  
  http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl
  
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- TeslanEdison
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:11am
  You should know better than to cite the history channel, they regularly spin history.
  Try this http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm
  The history channel is often fictional historical commentary, they state things like all the American founders were deist and so on. Even using university archives is questionable these days since they are liberal controlled, you must realize that the liberal agenda is to blame the entire dust bowl on man and poor farming practices. Sure man didn’t help by plowing up miles of land but man did not create a “desert micro-climate” as some texts suppose. Contour farming came out of that, and for the most part fixed the problem, at issue is what happened to all the reservoirs built by the army core, were there enough, because as I remember there was more than enough rain in spring to get them through the summer… I have to wonder if we can pump oil from Alaska how is it we can’t pump water from the Gulf of Mexico, The Pacific or the Atlantic? It’s not like desalinization is rocket science, you could use all that wind and solar to do the job right? Its more like um if I don’t irrigate, then I can declare a crop insurance failure…
  
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diverdan
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:27am
Of course the climate changes. It always has. Ice ages, warming periods, droughts and on and on. Of course the real question is what causes it and is there anything man can do about it. However, the climate despots assume that because the first is true, then the cause is man and they are smart enough to fix it. These are the same idiots (or their trained successors) who thought in the 1970s that we would now be living in an ice age.

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savagenatn
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:06am
no wonder obummer won this state…the commies have infiltrated this one too

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DWilliams08
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:04am
A drought IS climate change. So is a flood. Is that all you have to know to be a scientist?

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raderby
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 4:23am
I heard a nut who is masquerading as a “foundation” or “think tank” type on the news just yesterday. He stated that the Republicans will bring up the carbon tax to be law in Congress, not the Dems. Supposed reason is that a carbon tax is better than taxing “rich people” –
HEY STUPID: it is not taxation, it is spending. SPENDING.

So BS producers like these political operatives in IA is fueling a carbon tax……. the danger is at our door. Not tomorrow… right now.

What is it going to take for the fools who go along with the collectivist dreams of these enemies of the USA to wake up? I guess when their smart phones are taken from them, their dreams of living where they want are smashed, and they are threatened. Blind idiots.

Looks like we got our answer 11/6/12. God help us.

And there is no wonder why BHO was in IA so many times on his campaign….

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- Small_Al
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:14am
  It’s unbelievable to me that as dicredited a religion as climate change is, there are still people who believe it. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com
  
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- Thatsitivehadenough
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:27am
  Sounds more and more to me like leftist-progressive-commie-liberals have moved to Iowa and poisoned it by infiltrating education, government, and the media there too. That’s part of their methodology for the total destruction of the US of A. These types are fouling all the regions of the nation.
  
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- Metalstr8jckt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:37pm
  @RADERBY; Carbon taxes turns gullible idiots into willing participants in the “Greening” of it’s creators wallets.
  
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phillycornerboy
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:49am
proganda, plain and simple. the noaa “proved” that the melting of ice in the artic was caused by wind and not temp. there has been NO measurible increase in the temp. for 15 years. so, whats up with iowa? nothing is up, its all a scam. notice the “climate scientists” (their very name implies bias) are the ones sounding the alarm. they stand to benefit from increased funding. what about the noaa? the progressives/dems are just singing the same old song. have you noticed that “climate” and even al gore have re-surfaced AFTER the election? scam.

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- Metalstr8jckt
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:44pm
  @phillycornerboy; Correct sir, Arctic ice is receding, and on the other side of the earth…the Antarctic ice is increasing. Hmmmm, inversely proportional, almost like there is some natural phenomenon of checks and balances or some sort of “Grand scheme” to Earth’s climatology. Wow!
  
  He “Enlightened me with Science!” Quick! Where is my old Thomas Dolby LP?
  
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DmrNDrt
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:21am
Eureka! I’ve finally found the source of Global Warming! There are 130 climate “scientists” in Iowa alone! If that trend holds true for other states imagine all the hot air being generated in California!

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SerikFox
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:51am
Except there have been several years of drought just like this in the past… Going back a *really* long time. These people are idiots.

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FANGS
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:44am
Right. The same Iowa with ann the bribed off democrats and voter fraud. What a joke.

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christos
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:37am
….The arrogance to say man controls the weather,LIARS – Deceivers only +JESUS+GOD+ control the weather,,,,looks like Iowa turned their back on +JESUS+GOD+ & +HE+ is returning the favor,,,,surely their man made god can save them from the book of Revelation,,,,so little time,so much weather,TA

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Lamarr01
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:28am
The extreme weather conditions in the mid-west have little to do with carbon dioxide or cow farts. Perform a Google search on “weaponization of weather” and “geoengineering”. An alternative view of hurricane Sandy can be seen at:

http://rezn8d.net/2012/11/02/geoengineering-frankenstorm-hurricane-sandy-afwws-pt1/

http://rezn8d.net/2012/11/03/geoengineering-frankenstorm-hurricane-sandy-and-the-air-force-weather-weapon-system-part-2/

This may be too much reality to pass the Blaze Censors but it’s guaranteed to make you mad.

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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:02am
  well worth the read – shocking isnt it ,,,
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:09am
  beach front property ,,,
  
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Ragnars Repos
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:19am
Well, they have to make you believe the sky is falling before you will run into their collectivist arms/death grip.

What do you expect them to do, go away and discuss ‘climate change’ quietly amongst themselves?

They won’t go away until you defeat them and marginalize them, Americans.

If you fail to act against them, they will have no problem with defeating you and controlling you. It’s just that simple.

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Lordcsmith
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:24am
My statistics professor said the beauty of statistics is that they can say whatever you want them to say and people will take them seriously. Oh yeah, and he also said “83% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”

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- Mr.buff1959
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:45am
  I would love to see the stat, on that.
  
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Mr.buff1959
Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:19am
Thank goodness Dec,21 is just around the corner.

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TJexcite
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:48pm
Sure we all know of the problem. It is the solutions that are the real problem.

We all know the for the last 10,000 years humans have been on North America the climate was the same all 9850 years and never had wet year and dry year, all the same. Only in the 150 years has it changed to have wet years and dry years.

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- Ragnars Repos
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 1:23am
  This is NOT about making sense. It’s about scaring people into doing something they wouldn’t normally do.
  
  This is a means to an end.
  
  It’s about power and control.
  
  It’s about collectivism–the very antithesis of the American way of life.
  
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semihardrock
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:44pm
Tricking and scheming the public thought process by using “key phrases” is done on every college campus and paid for by Government and public schools.

For YEARS the biggest joke is paying a weatherman on TV to be wrong most of the time. NOW, your mind controlling LSD progressive Government can predict the weather.

“Climate Change” is not lying and will always be proven. It’s cold tonight, tomorrow when sun comes out it will get warmer…..I have just proven “Climate Change”. If you are not moving “Forward”, you MUST BE moving “Backwards”…..Nobody wants to move backwards……

They are treating Americans like the idiots that they are……and will fall for it just like the past election results.

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HKS
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:41pm
Any climate study that does not have five thousand years of data is just a joke. This is just a joke, laugh, laugh.

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Joey8
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:35pm
Lol, “climate change” is a pretty vague term. They are technically correct, the recent change is climate is caused by “climate change” lol, what a bunch of tards.

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Psychosis
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:26pm
record everyone who makes these claims

then when it DOESNT happen as they state, they become responsible to reimburse the population for stealing their money through the tax scams they support

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- ashestoashes
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:37pm
  You could say that man is causing the drought…but try the government who is seeding the clouds with aluminum and barium..which is killing the land and the vegetation..they lock in commodity prices..then go destroy the land and crops..causing a shortage..then they make a killing..cool…no?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmFm8PIz8M
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:40pm
  I’m more in favor of public hangings for them.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:22pm
Yes, a drought is a change from the average normal climate. It doesn’t take a scientist to figure that one out. Blaming it on greenhouse gas emissions sounds like a leap into the BS world of Algore and the renewable energy Obamanites.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Yup, and if we would just subject ourselves to centralized fascist control of all energy and business productivity then they would be able to stop droughts.. daisies and springtime forever in our State controlled utopia!
  
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- bpodlesnik
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:02am
  Notice how it used to be “global warming” and when they saw that was a total failure, they changed it to “climate change” to make it more believable. Many people believe in climate change, but not everyone believes it is man made.
  
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