The Science of Doom

In #10-#13 we looked at recent trends in droughts.

After covering Tropical Cyclones in #1-#6 it was worth doing a summary in part because AR6’s summary missed some good news from the report itself.

In #7-#9 we looked at extreme rainfall and floods and the summary was important because AR6’s summary missed some good news.

I’ve included the full text from p. 1575 below in the notes.

If you check the table in the notes section of #11 we can see that there were 8 regions identified with a rainfall deficit and 6 regions identified with a rainfall increase. These are also listed in the report section before the summary. However, the summary section only says:

There is medium confidence in increases in precipitation deficits in a few regions of Africa and South America.

Of course, people can read the section before and find out that there were places with a rainfall increase (a decrease in droughts). But anyone limiting themselves to only the “summary” would miss out on this good news.

On soil moisture droughts – agricultural and ecological droughts – they say:

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