Some regions in Central Europe have been suffering from a shortage of rain this spring and summer, so not surprisingly the media are blaming manmade climate change, often implying that droughts in Germany never happened before. But of course they have, as this old news clip from Bavaria, Germany rolled in September, 1947 documents: The … Continue reading Extreme Weather In The Past: Germany’s Great Drought Of 1947 And Its “Catastrophic” Consequences