Freighter passing a sandbank on the Rhine river [image credit: worldcargonews.com]
Mixed messages from climate research here. In between evidence-free waffle about ‘potential’ human influence, they report that severe drought spells are nothing new in Europe, implying climate cycles of some sort. This means attribution of such drought to human causes is debatable, as the article admits.
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The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions.
This indicates an influence of man-made global warming, claims Phys.org.
However, multi-year droughts have occurred frequently in the 17th and 18th century, although not as severe.
This is the result of a new study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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