http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/01/14/global_winds/

I have an anti-desertification solution; stop and recapture desert land. Do you know of any climate models showing how GW will affect deserts?

Dan

All other hurricanes that have hit this country no longer are a matter of history and are ignored.
Only hurricane Katrina receives continuing attention because it was the first politically incorrect hurricane. It hurt a lot of black people in New Orleans.

Alternative energy? Been yakked about for years
and we're still using gasoline only it costs $2.50
a gallon more than it used to. Environmental laws have backfired in that they've stymied
production of anything including so called alternative energy. Kinda like a dog chasing it's tail.

Energy is available everywhere you want to try it. How so? Give Einstein's marvelous equation a go and see what you'll find. It's misnomered as a Theory of Relativity whereby it's hardly a theory,it's a reality. If our college faculties engaged less in left wing ideals and start grinding out more engineers, we'd advance.
But with American kids majoring in beer and sex instead of math, we remain at a standstill using gasoline for power while Al Gore bitches about it
yet doesn't know what to do.

In a paper in Geophysical Research Letters, Andreadis and Lettenmaier found that precipitation and average soil moisture has increased in the 20th century for most of the US, while the duration and severity of droughts in the Southwest and parts of the interior West has increased.

I find the data on hurricanes is pretty compelling – they are getting more intense.

Also take a look at this figure which I found on Wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Trends_in_natural_disasters.jpg

Here are some resources:

NOAA has a website on North American droughts with maps generated from 20th century instrumental records and older proxies: data, 20th century instrumental record, map of four different North American droughts based on those records.