the story HERE 
click for larger version (Time cover dated 1977)
UPDATE: This just in, regarding NZ’s little drought:
‘James Renwick, Associate professor of physical geography at Victoria University, said global warming was the only explanation for the current drought, which he described as “an exceptional event”…’
Droughts ARE BY DEFINITION EXCEPTIONAL EVENTS, you wanker. (otherwise NZ would look something like the Sahara, no?) And if global warming is the “only explanation” (very scientific, that) then how come there have been droughts in NZ and Australia long, long before the white man and his magic Co2 heaters arrived?
This clown is either too thick to tie his own shoelaces, pushing an agenda in order to preserve the taxpayer’s money funding stream, or simply desperate for attention.
In the same vein, the latest hockey stick has been shown to be a fraud.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/16/mcintyre-finds-the-marcott-trick-how-long-before-science-has-to-retract-marcott-et-al/#more-82230
I’d like to see the bastards prosecuted for fraud, because now that’s surely what it is.
They are incrementally stripping themselves of any remaining credibility by making this sort of hysterical outburst. I think that the climate alarmists deserve contempt and my preferred method of delivery is to ignore them. They’re weak brained and pitiable.
This University continues to lose credibility with each passing year.
All in the scramble to suck up “climate research” dollars.
An honest thief walks into a bank with a sawn-off shotgun.
I notice that the Greenies have been very silent about the greening of the Sahel Desert (on the southern edge of the Sahara).
http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/mueller-sahel.pdf
I am in New Zealand, and yes, the drought is bad. However, there have been many others in past decades (along with floods as well).
For droughts in particular, its a matter of the farmers (who are most affected) learning to manage water better e.g. rainwater-harvesting. They’ve done it for thousands of years in India. Ok, water tanks, reservoirs (preferably underground ones for less evaporation loss) can be costly, but so can droughts themselves. I reckon a good water storage system would pay for itself after two droughts.
And more dams, Thor. Even fairly small ones, scattered all over.
Knock the RMA on the head (and the Greens along with it) and then perhaps things will get done.
So much for the Australian Climate Commissioner’s record hot “angry summer”:
‘..former Deputy Head of the Bureau of Meteorology, Bill Kininmonth, has noted that “the high temperatures were neither Australia-wide nor global, as might be expected from carbon dioxide forcing… (and) the past summer was only 0.2 degrees warmer than the previous warmest summer of 1982-83”. Separately, Kininmonth has observed that the trend in the Australia-wide maximum since 1980, including this recent “hottest summer”, has been 0.1 degrees per century, not significantly different from zero. He compares our hot summer with that experienced in Europe in 2003 — a manifestation of a sustained blocking weather pattern…’
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2013/03/our-angry-summer-was-no-worse-than-miffed
These people are now simply lying. Not mistaken, not misguided. Lying.
There were astonishing scenes at the Milan-San Remo classic in northern Italy on Sunday as heavy snowfall caused a 55km chunk of the race to be abandoned, with riders being ferried to a restart point on their team buses.
Frozen racers climbed off their bikes after 117km due to treacherous conditions up ahead on the Passo del Turchino.
http://www1.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/8573209/Milan-San-Remo-shortened-after-heavy-snow-forces-riders-to-dismount-their-bikes