GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES DROUGHT IN LYNCHBURG

I knew it would happen sometime, but I didn't know it would happen in my hometown.

The current drought the southeastern US is experiencing right now has been blamed on global warming. In yesterday's Lynchburg News and Advance, one Michael Tabony has connected the two in question form, in a letter to the editor. The blame of course, is placed squarely on atmospheric CO2, and ultimately, of course, on American-style capitalism. Mr. Tabony does not explain the mechanics of how such a phenomenon could occur.

In elementary school, we were taught that warm air causes evaporation, and we know that the Earth indeed has warmed almost a degree in the last 100 years. No one disputes that this has caused more, not less, evaporation into the atmosphere. Seventy percent of the surface of our planet is comprised of water, so theoretically and in practice, there simply will be more water to fall from the sky. Some areas can experience drought when others experience more precipitation, global air flows will rule here no matter which way the thermometer is headed. It would be far easier to convince me that the temperature rise could cause a flood, than cause a drought.

Carbon Dioxide actually aids plant growth by making it utilize water more efficiently, and thus can be a good thing for our planet and its people, as pointed out by Bjorn Lomborg, and others. The Global Warming hysteria progresses unimpeded; I guess I shouldn't be surprised the local paper would print such counter-intuitive, un-provable balderdash.