Climate Kids - name used to describe K-12 school children who have been inculcated with an intransigent view about man-made global warming theory. The Chloe girl schools the Climate Kids about global warming
Lesson 5: California’s puny 4-year drought John Eidson May 6, 2019 Hi, Climate Kids. The Chloe girl here. This is a picture of me and Mr. Eidson’s 26-year-old niece, Chinon. She’s from New Zealand. Pretty too! Btw, did you guys know that New Zealand is known as the Land of the Long White Clouds? It’s true. Anyway, me and Chinon have been doing some reading about droughts. We learned that California had a really bad drought that lasted four years, from 2012 through the end of 2015. The people who try to scare kids about the climate made it seem like the California drought was the worst the state had ever seen. It was a bad one, no doubt about it. But I bet you Climate Kids didn’t know that studies of tree rings, sediment and other scientific evidence have documented multiple extreme droughts over the last 1,000-plus years, including some that lasted 20 years. That’s five times longer than the relatively puny 4-year drought of 2012-2015, but some droughts in California lasted even longer. MUCH longer. One that began in the year 850 A.D. lasted 240 years, and that mega-drought occurred more than a thousand years before some people started trying to scare kids about the climate. The drought of 850 A.D. wasn’t alone. Fifty years before it began, another megadrought, one that lasted 180 years, was just winding down. Here’s something else most people don’t know. The part of the planet now called California has been hit with countless extreme droughts since time immemorial, 100% of which eventually ended. And all of those droughts happened a long, long time before humans began using fossil fuels. 1