The U.S. Agriculture Department has issued a natural disaster declaration for more than1,000 U.S. counties facing severe drought. This disaster declaration is the largest ever from the Agriculture Department and includes one-third of counties and spans 26 states. Some 53 percent of the Midwest is facing moderate or severe drought, but areas beyond the drought’s borders could pay higher world grain prices, due to a poor harvest.
This disaster declaration makes farmers eligible for disaster assistance, but lawmakers will continue to remain silent on the root cause: Climate change. The year of record heat isn’t achance occurrence, but comes from a climate system on steroids, “juiced” by manmade greenhouse gas emissions.
More than one-third of U.S. counties are facing severe drought.
