New Study: Increasing CO2 Fights Drought

According to all the maintream climate models the man-made global warming alarmists like to use, increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere will cause increased drought conditions in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere. On its face, it makes sense: increase carbon-dioxide, planet warms up, drought should be likely. But, the planet is a little more complicated than that, and climate scientists define drought by the paucity of soil-moisture, not whether it's warm outside. Still, the majority of climate models predict drought conditions in the coming years, no matter the rate of increase of CO2 injected into the atmosphere.

But a new study on soil moisture in the Ukraine, inside that mid-latitude region of the Northern Hemisphere, shows an increase in soil-moisture from the 1950s to the 1990s, because of the rise in CO2. World Climate Report explains how the 40 year trend of global dimming, in conjunction with increased carbon-dioxide levels, dampened the evaporative demand of the atmosphere over land, and caused plants in the region to reduce water loss levels.

Read the whole story over at World Climate Report, because the rest of the article shows how using a land-surface model, as opposed to those ubiquitous global climate models, not only matched the collected data, but showed that other predicted upward trends of carbon-dioxide levels show only increasing soil-moisture levels, not drought conditions. So, if we don't get drought, even with the modest effects of of man-made sources of carbon-dioxide, and we won't get the new ice age either, I guess that leaves those super hurricanes for the extreme weather that global warming is supposed to cause. Maybe not that last one either.