Record Breaking Weather

[chuck white]

And when we had our cold snap, the climate change denialists were going on and on about it. And ignoring the record highs in Australia. Now with our drought and heatwaves, they feel the need to point out record colds in Australia.

I don't suppose any of this could be related to serious issues with climate change, could it?

And your explanation of the severe drought that caused the dust bowl of the dirty thirties is.......?

Bad farming techniques
left the soil exposed to blow away.

Poor farming may have caused the bust bowl but it didn't cause the severe drought that caused crops to fail. So was it Global Warming? Global Cooling? Climate Change? Global Climate Disruption? Or just plain old cyclical weather patterns created by El Nino or La Nina?

We have always had droughts, but because of deep plowing (caused by man), the drought became a serious problem.
Today the droughts will be worse than those of the past, also record rain falls will be worse. During a shift in climate due to changes in conditions, weather will fluctuate wildly from one extreme to another. Think about a boat on the water. sure it rocks up and down. now drop a heavy load at one end and it will sink to a lower level, but in the process it will go up and down with more amplitude, before settling to a lower level.
So during this rocking of the boat, boat sinking deniers will point out how the boat is higher out of the water when it's at one of those maximums.