Thursday, August 2, 2012

Drought - a first hand perspective

Much of the US is presently in a record breaking drought, and I am guessing that many of us don't have a real good perspective of how bad this can be, so from Steve Lyons at the Dickinson Press:

"Of all the ways nature has to kill you, drought may be the cruelest. The desiccation proceeds day after punishing day. The afternoon sun pounds the Earth like a brazen hammer. As I write, the temperature here in Perry County, Arkansas, has reached 108 degrees."

For the full article: Climate change real - ask the cows

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