https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRqMxoUEmU?si=18sy0VHxFAg2R72J
Brandel Chamblee thinks Rory McIlroy has failed to win a major since 2014 because his swing isn't as good as it used to be. Paul McGinley thinks the drought

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/brandel-chamble-rory-mcilroy-technical-swing-the-loop-podcast
Chamblee had pointed out that he believed McIlroy's almost 10-year major drought has been due to "technical" difficulties in his swing. McGinley aggressively pushed back, arguing McIlroy's

https://www.nbc.com/live-from/video/rory-mcilroys-2024-us-open-loss-extends-major-championship-drought/nbc_golf_rorydebate_240616
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https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/13094331/keep-banging-on-the-door-is-rory-mcilroys-major-drought-disrupting-his-performances
Paul McGinley and Brandel Chamblee debate whether Rory McIlroy's 10-year drought without winning a major might be disrupting his performances.

https://apnews.com/article/rory-mcilroy-us-open-pinehurst-majors-0fd83a6f760248be0c234af75ea57409
PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy had every reason to feel bitterly disappointed. He was poised to end all those years without winning another major when he couldn't make a birdie over the last 17 holes, couldn't hit a fairway to even give himself a good chance, and he finished one shot behind in the U.S. Open.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/golf/mcilroys-major-drought-goes-after-near-miss-us-open-2023-06-19/
Item 1 of 3 Jun 18, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Rory McIlroy leaves the twelfth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Los Angeles Country Club.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036867479/a-20-year-megadrought-threatens-hydropower-in-the-west
The drought is creating problems for hydroelectricity for millions of people. In a federal emergency measure, reservoirs are sending water to Lake Powell to keep its power turbines spinning.

https://www.drought.gov/drought-status-updates/special-edition-drought-status-update-western-united-states-2023-01-24
Key Points. Starting on December 26, 2022, a series of 9 atmospheric rivers (ARs) brought significant amounts of rain, snow, and wind to California and other parts of the western United States over a 3-week period.; 80% of a full seasonal snowpack was deposited in California during these storms. Statewide, precipitation over these 3 weeks was 11.2 inches, which is 46% of a full water year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2023/07/22/rory-mcilroy-s-drought-in-majors-set-to-stretch-to-a-10th-year-as-putter-stays-cold-at-british-open/70451127007/
AP. HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy headed straight to the practice putting green after his third round at the British Open, determined to work on the part of his game that's most to

https://www.reuters.com/sports/golf/mcilroy-good-place-end-long-major-drought-2023-07-19/
Item 1 of 4 Golf - The 151st Open Championship - Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, Britain - July 18, 2023 Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy in action during a practice round REUTERS/Paul Childs

https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2023/05/18/fighting-sickness-rory-mcilroy-salvages-71-to-open-pga-championship-oak-hill-country-club
Skin temperature was 3.5 degrees higher than normal Thursday morning. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Even in his adopted second home, Rory McIlroy isn't immune to physical discomfort. McIlroy has taken

https://www.drought.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/NIDIS_DroughtAssmt2023_Focus11.pdf
4. Collect systematic sectoral drought impacts for robust analysis, with use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and upgrading existing condition monitoring systems. 5. Conduct research using compound event methods to examine amplified impacts of drought (e.g., drought and land subsidence due to groundwater depletion, river

https://apnews.com/article/science-china-droughts-united-states-2336dc7757d8a0855d21e711ccb0fee3
Published 6:17 PM PDT, October 5, 2022. Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study. Drought dried up major rivers, destroyed crops, sparked wildfire, threatened aquatic species and led

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/05/climate-change-and-droughts-whats-the-connection/
Climate change, namely rising average temperatures driven by human-generated emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, is contributing to droughts, too. Drought conditions across the contiguous United States as of August 10, 2021. Around 40% of the U.S. is experiencing drought. (Source: U.S. Drought Monitor/Drought.gov)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6301
A significant global transition to flash droughts is driven by regional increases in flash drought ratio over 74% of the IPCC SREX regions, notably for the significant increases (P < 0.1) over East and North Asia, Europe, Sahara, and the west coast of South America ().Moreover, the onset speed of subseasonal droughts has increased over most regions, with significant increases (P < 0.1) over

https://www.drought.gov/news/drought-assessment-has-been-outpaced-climate-change-empirical-arguments-paradigm-shift
The authors then used an analysis of observed rainfall data from ~2,000 long-term climate stations across the U.S. to examine spatial patterns of drought metric bias. Bias was calculated by evaluating the difference in drought intensity associated with a short (~30 year contemporary climate) versus long (~70+ year "period-of-record" climate

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/07/1103445439/these-are-the-impacts-of-californias-worst-drought-on-record
California farmers and farmworkers are struggling under California's worst drought ever. Officials say this year, the third straight year of drought, is the driest on record. Six million Southern

https://www.nbcsports.com/golf/news/i-want-to-do-the-right-thing-lengthy-drop-debate-plays-out-after-rory-mcilroy-water-ball
Rory McIlroy and his fellow playing competitors, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland, weren't just tested on their geometry skills Thursday at The Players. They put their debate chops to the test as well. McIlroy rinsed two tee balls into the water, the first at TPC Sawgrass' par-4 18 th hole and the second on the par-4 seventh. While the

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/politics/mccarthy-district-drought-water-crisis-climate/index.html
California has spent eight of the last 11 years in drought, with the last three years being the driest such period on record, state officials said in October. Human-caused climate change - which

https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/conroe-limits-watering-drought-plan-dry-conditions-18354998.php
Conroe moves to Stage 2 of drought plan as dry conditions, limited groundwater persist. Conroe resident Patricia Matthews waters her yard in the afternoon Aug. 22. Conroe has moved to the second stage of its drought contingency plan for the northwest area of the city as it limits outdoor watering from 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/25/us/how-roe-ended.html
June 25, 2022. The beginning of the end of Roe v. Wadearrived on election night in November 2010. That night, control of state houses across the country flippedfrom Democrat to Republican, almost

https://items.ssrc.org/democracy-papers/the-united-states-has-a-democracy-problem-what-democratic-erosion-scholarship-tells-us-about-january-6/
The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was a jarring, almost surreal event; the attack, by US citizens, on the nation's symbol of democracy sent shockwaves throughout the country and around the world.The images of an angry mob roving through the inner chambers of the Capitol are dark, disturbing, and distressing.However, for scholars of democratic erosion, January 6 was less surprising

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02436.x
Here we explore the seemingly simple questions of when and why some plants die during drought while others survive. This is a long-standing question (Bossel, 1986; Franklin et al., 1987; Waring, 1987; Manion, 1991) relevant to both low rates of mortality that happen continuously and regional scale 'die-off' events that occur less frequently.. Scientific focus on this question has increased