Drought NOT due to "warming"

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ST. LOUIS (CBS St. Louis/AP) – A new federal study reveals that global warming is not to blame for last year’s extreme drought that crippled the central Great Plains.

The study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Drought Task Force places the blame on natural variations in weather patterns that caused the “flash drought.”

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/04/12/study-reveals-global-warming-not-to-blame-for-last-years-crippling-drought/

The report
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/nidis/2012-Drought-Interpretation-final.web-041113.pdf


you can bet that if it had been, the story would have led the news all weekend