I don't know if global warming is real or not. I do know that all the science studies have been focused on the coastlines and its impact on urban centers. Someone this year confirmed they really didn't know what was going to happen in the interior grain belts, but their early study looked bad. If you look at maps as to where your grains are grown it is the interior of countires. Something is happening, parts of KS, OK, TX and now adding NE, SD, ND to drought, some areas are in year 7. Crop failures example wheat are going world wide. Your food plants don't do well with wild swings in hot/cold, wet/dry, so I think it is time for the average person to start thinking about global warming as a real issue. Next years global food crop cycle should be really interesting not only in production numbers, but in prices. Problems in global farm country are starting to stretch the fabric of communities. We are a long way from not having food in stores, but the farm economy in rural areas trickle up and in the US and Australia farm communities are suffering and impacting their state economic picture as well as the regional ones.

I hope this is just a passing thing, but when you hear two alert 90 year olds looking at the stats and saying see we told you this is worse than the 30's and way worse then the 50's it does make you think this is different than those two droughts.