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Do we need a better yardstick to measure severe droughts?

2013-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: After more than a decade, the U.S. Drought Monitor might be due for a tuneup. As Illinois' State Climatologist Jim Angel puts it, it's like the scene in the 1984 parody of hard rock documentaries "This Is Spinal Tap" in which heavy metal guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off his amplifiers with volume knobs that go up to 11. Tufnel's amplifiers, he brags to the filmmaker in the spoof, give his guitars that ear-splitting "extra push off the cliff" compared with traditional amps that only reach 10....

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