"Errors"? Or lies??!!-----A major research paper that claimed to provide proof climate change was causing more-severe and -frequent droughts has been withdrawn by its publisher, the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Nature published the study, “Warming accelerates global drought severity,” in June 2025. The authors claimed to find droughts on Earth have become more severe and intense since 1981. - The Heartland INstitute

• They stated specifically that climate change had made the atmosphere “thirst[ier],” resulting in droughts from 2018 to 2022 that were 40 percent more severe than in the 37 years prior, with the area affected by drought increasing by 74 percent, 58 percent of which they blamed on the increased “thirst of the atmosphere” they attributed to human-caused climate change.
• In addition to receiving widespread media coverage, the paper was cited 337 times in other studies referencing climate change causing greater drought, in just over a year, by the time the report’s authors had to retract it.

Critics of the study pointed out significant errors in the data and calculations used in the study. 

Nature’s retraction notice acknowledges these and other errors...