Unprecedented (For The Last Decade And A Half)!
August 13, 2014
By Paul Homewood
http://time.com/101538/california-drought-wildfire/
As a follow up to my post on the drought in California, I must mention this article in Time, which appeared in May.
“The worst drought since tracking began”
Sounds pretty scary eh? Well, perhaps not.
The article continues:
So we have the worst drought since 2000? Unprecedented over the past decade and a half!
I’m not sure who’s worse. Climatologists for coming out with such nonsense, or journalists for printing it.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
There is a story here. The story is that the federal government only started to monitor flood levels in the year 2000. I can imagine Conan O’Brian solemnly intoning “In the year 2000, the federal government will begin measuring floods in California!!”