Modern Droughts Are Nothing - 80 Years Ago Was The Worst Of The Last 1,000 Years
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 16:20
in Earth & Climate
In an instantaneous, 24-hour news cycle, a lot of being made of current U.S. droughts but the 1934 version was 7X larger than other comparable intensity droughts that struck North America between 1000 A.D. and 2005, and nearly 30 percent worse than the next most severe drought that struck the continent in 1580, finds a new analysis. read more