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Texas Drought Cost $2 Billion More Than Previously Thought

Posted on March 22, 2012 by stacyherbert| 28 Comments

Stacy Summary: If you’ll recall, 2011 was a record year for billion dollar weather catastrophes in America. Well 2011 has just been revised upwards. Of the 14 events, one has just been revised up by another $2 billion.

Texas Drought Cost $2 Billion More Than Previously Thought

Agriculture officials say losses from Texas’ historic drought are more than $2 billion more than previously thought.

The Texas AgriLife Extension Service now estimates crop and livestock losses at $7.62 billion for 2011 [SH: Total drought losses since 1998 for Texas is $14 billion, so 2011 equals more than half of that total]. The extension service’s preliminary estimate of $5.2 billion in August already topped the previous record of $4.1 billion in 2006.

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There is absolutely nothing to see here, please do NOT stop and read this post, it is much, much better that you return to watching Fox News and ALL will be well

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stacyherbert| 132 Comments

For as long as people have been taking weather measurements in Texas, there has never been a summer hotter than the summer of 2011

For as long as people have been taking weather measurements in Texas, there has never been a summer hotter than the summer of 2011. As wunderground’s weather historian Christopher C. Burt documents in his latest blog post, seventeen major cities in Texas recorded their hottest summer on record in 2011. Most of these stations had records extending back more than 100 years, and several of the records were smashed by an amazing 3.4°F–at Lubbock and at Wichita Falls. Neighboring states also experienced unprecedented heat, with Oklahoma recording America’s hottest month by any state in recorded history during July, and Shreveport, Louisiana breaking its record for hottest month by 3°F in August. Mr. Burt commented to me: ” I do not believe I have ever seen a site with a long period of record, like Shreveport, where records go back to 1874, break its warmest single month on record by an astonishing 3°. This is unheard of. Usually when a site breaks its single month temperature record, we are talking about tenths of a degree, rarely a whole degree, let alone 3 degrees! Hard to believe, frankly.” Texas has also had its worst fire season on record, with over 3.5 million acres burned this year, and it’s driest 1-year period in recorded history.

An Interesting Fact

San Angelo and Lubbock, Texas both recorded their single hottest month on record in June. Then in July those records in turn were broken. And then, in August, their July records were broken! In other words, in over 100 years of records for both cities, their three hottest-single-months were respectively, August, July, and June 2011. I do not believe this has occurred at any American weather station in recorded history.

Many sites, especially in the Southeast, recorded their warmest summer on record in 2010 only to have it broken this past summer in 2011. Given the long periods of record of these sites, this quite an accomplishment.

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Disaster Strikes Texas: Thanks to the extreme drought conditions, all of Texas has been declared a natural disaster

Posted on June 30, 2011 by stacyherbert| 24 Comments

Stacy Summary: Thirty percent of crops in Texas have now been destroyed. But there is nothing to see here, keep moving.

Disaster strikes Texas

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples says as bad as things are, they can get worse. Continue reading →

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Drought Threatens Texas Oil Boom

Posted on June 13, 2011 by stacyherbert| 59 Comments

Stacy Summary: Nothing to see here, Kochbots, keep moving. Nothing to see here. Don’t worry, climate change has NOTHING at all to do with the economy. So what do you think of Weiner’s weener?

Drought threatens Texas oil boom

The worst Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil and natural- gas drilling boom as government officials ration water supplies crucial to energy exploration.

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Why do we cover AGW? Because it’s rapidly becoming the single greatest economic factor driving up food and energy prices around the world.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by maxkeiser| 100 Comments

UN warns of food riots in developing world as AGW pushes up prices

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AGW costs continue to spiral

Posted on May 10, 2011 by maxkeiser| 128 Comments

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Russia’s Drought Raises Bondholder Risk

Posted on July 29, 2010 by stacyherbert| 83 Comments

Stacy Summary: I do laugh when shriekers and employees of the House of Saud drop by, “stick to finance, babe, don’t write about climate change.” As if the two can be separated.

Russia’s Drought Raises Bondholder Risk

High temperatures, which rose to a record 37.4 Celsius (99 Fahrenheit) yesterday in Moscow, have damaged 32 percent of land under cultivation and forced Russia to declare states of emergency in 23 regions. Grain prices may double this year because of the drought, according to the Grain Producers’ Union.

Inflation may quicken to 8.1 percent by the end of December, compared with the government’s annual forecast of 6 percent, according to Yaroslav Lissovolik, Deutsche Bank AG’s head of research in Moscow. That will put pressure on Bank Rossii to raise its benchmark rate by year-end for the first time since December 2008, said Natalia Orlova, Moscow-based chief economist at Alfa Bank.

Higher rates “may cause a correction in short-term sovereign bonds and, later, in long-term sovereign bonds,” said Evgeniy Nadorshin, senior economist at Trust Investment Bank in Moscow.