US cotton prices continued to surge above the boom days of 2010-11 after a massive crop estimate cut by the USDA, shocking Wall Street analysts and traders, due primarily to a megadrought scorching farmland of Texas, according to Bloomberg. Source Views: 0
Posts Tagged ‘megadrought’
Megadrought Nightmare: No Water For Crops, Horrific Wildfires, Colossal Dust Storms And Draconian Water Restrictions
May 17th, 2021 Awake Goy
The western half of the country desperately needed a healthy level of precipitation during last winter’s “wet season”, but instead conditions were much drier than usual… Consequently, this past winter’s wet season was not very wet at all. In fact, it just added insult to injury, with only 25 to 50% of normal rainfall falling across […]
Sahara Climate Change Linked to 1000-Year Southeast Asian Megadrought
August 24th, 2020 Awake Goy
Climate researchers exploring the molecular-structure of stalagmites discovered in Laos caves have married their observations with models of the Sahara drying up 4,000 years ago to show the catastrophic global effects of climate change. Their results have demonstrated the fallout caused by this vast swathe of planet Earth turning from lush grassland to a barren […]