Despite The Risks, Republicans Won’t Allow Full Debate On Climate Change
ecthompsonmd
February 24, 2012
A recent article in New Scientist said that changing weather patterns have increased the chance for recurring drought in East Africa. (Above–Oxfam photo of a family gathering firewood in drought-stricken Kenya in 2011.) From New Scientist— “Last year’s drought occurred because both of the region’s rainy seasons failed. We already know that the trigger for the failure of the “short rains”, between October and December 2010, was La Niña – a cyclical meteorological event caused by a pulse of cool water rising to the surface of the eastern Pacific Ocean. But efforts to work out why the “long rains” that occur between March and
