It's Reportedly Hot - and Dry - in Hell

Well, we seem to have a record-breaker on our hands this year, thanks partly to the great climate-change hoax and the greedy scientists who are so obviously behind it.

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The drought in the 1950's is less deeply romanticized [than that in the 30s], but it was quite serious, kicking the unshirted hell out of Texas, among other places. You will note that the drought of the 1950's was used as the occasion for vigorous government action aimed at preventing the large-scale damage that the drought had done.

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Now, of course, the governor of Texas is an anti-science meathead whose response to a drought a few years ago was to get everybody together to pray for rain.
  Charlie Pierce

While politics and our attention span in this country makes everything seem further gone than it actually is, that wasn't a few years ago, Charlie. That was last year.