Drought Wasn't Caused by Climate Change After All, Federal Study Finds Seth Borenstein - Associated Press
go to original April 13, 2013

Politicians and environmentalists for months blamed the Midwest drought on climate change, but federal scientists say it was just a freak of nature.

WASHINGTON — Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds.

Scientists say the lack of moisture usually pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico was the main reason for the drought in the nation's midsection.

Last week's report by dozens of scientists from five different federal agencies looked into why forecasters didn't see the drought coming. The researchers concluded that it was so unusual and unpredictable that it couldn't have been forecast.

"This is one of those events that comes along once every couple hundreds of years," said lead author Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Climate change was not a significant part, if any, of the event."

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