In a shocking turn of events that may upset global warming doomsday prophets, which include former Vice President Al Gore and United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the New York Times officially announced in an article buried on page A13 that water shortages in the southeastern region of the United States were not caused by global warming, but instead by rapid population growth.

The NY Times reports that, "the drought that gripped the Southeast from 2005 to 2007 was not unprecendented and resulted from random weather events, not global warming, Columbia University researchers have concluded. They say its severe water shortages resulted from population growth more than rainfall patterns."

In Thursday's issue of The Journal of Climate, the researchers reported their findings by citing census figures disclosing that in Georgia alone, the population had risen to 9.54 million in 2007 from 6.48 million in 1990.

They wrote, "at the root of the water supply problem in the Southeast is a growing population."

According to the NY Times, "Richard Seager, a climate expert at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the study, said in an interview that when the drought struck 'people were wondering' whether climate change linked to a global increase in heat-trapping gases could be a cause."

Yet after studying data from weather instruments, computer models and measurements if the rings that reflect annual rainfall "our conclusion was this drought was pretty normal and pretty typical by standards of what has happened in the region over the century," said Mr. Seager.

Over the last thousand years similar droughts unfolded, the researchers claimed. They added, regardless of climate change, similar weather patterns can be anticipated regularly in the future, with similar results.

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