Comment by bmitc
10 hours ago
Exactly. I feel like people forget about statistics and trends when it comes to the climate.
Nearly every long term trend and statistics shows climate and environmental conditions getting worse, and it's almost solely due to human activity.
Cherry picking short term events isn't useful, especially when the climate getting worse often means an increase in the duration between normal events and an increase in extreme weather.
To be fair, the current US SW drought fits right into the "pattern" of long term periodic droughts rather than being caused by human activity. However, anthropogenic effects are likely making it worse (worth noting that the IPCC has been clear that they cannot yet see anthropogenic effects in most climate events, despite being equally clear that they are there and they are going to get worse).