What’s more ironic is that the Senate’s leading climate denier bailed on the annual Heartland climate science denial conference this morning — saying “I am under the weather” (!) — just as his home state is being slammed by a record-smashing heatwave and a drought more severe than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Good call Joe. Check out August, 1936
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-08-c1.pdf
YTD precipitation in Oklahoma was drier in 1895, 1936, 1996, 1963, 1917, 1972, 1896, 1971, 1962, 1910, 1956, 1925, 2003 and 1934. YTD precipitation is almost 50% higher than 1895.
Romm is simply making up statistics – once again.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/ok.html
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