U.S. Drought Expands In Kansas, Oklahoma And Texas

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"Dec 13 (Reuters) - Drought continued to expand through many key farming states within the central United States in the past week, as scattered rainfall failed to replenish parched soils, according to a report issued Thursday by state and federal climatology experts.

Drought conditions were most pervasive in the Plains states, including in top wheat producer Kansas, according to the Drought Monitor report.

Fully 100 percent of Kansas was in at least "severe" drought as of Tuesday, up from 99.34 percent a week earlier, according to the Drought Monitor, and almost 78 percent remained in at least "extreme drought," the second-worst level of drought."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/us-drought-kansas_n_2293627.html

Meanwhile...

"The entire congressional delegation from Kansas cosponsored legislation last year to forbid the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and to limit the power of states to do so. Today, severe drought is underway in 100% of Kansas; in 78% of the state, the drought is ranked extreme."

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/17/1341371/still-hurting-in-the-heartland-the-historic-drought-continues/

[Nihil]

1. Good.

> "The entire congressional delegation from Kansas cosponsored legislation last year
> to forbid the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and to
> limit the power of states to do so. Today, severe drought is underway in 100% of Kansas;
> in 78% of the state, the drought is ranked extreme."

I'm all in favour of the people who are causing the pain to feel it themselves as soon as possible
in order to get them to change.

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2. Except that they won't - it's Brownbackistan, after all

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3. Cause and effect hasn't fared that well in Kansas education

Maybe it's time to "discover" an 11th commandment: "thou shall not burn carbon"

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4. The Koch brothers home state

I read somewhere that they own 10,000 cows. Persistent drought has to affect them.