Exactly. Like so many trying to connect "drought" to "warming". because they for some reason believe that a warmer temperature means a dryer climate. When once again it is the exact reverse. Heat increases humidity, which increases rainfall. Cold on the other hand not only reduces humidity, enough cold and you end up sequestering humidity in snow which in turn lowers humidity even more. The wettest times in the history of our planet are also when it was the warmest. Most of the planet was covered in forests including the Antarctic before there was a permanent ice cap there. Tropical rainforests once covered Alaska in that same time period. And many simply can not understand that the driest continent on the planet and the one that is almost 100% desert is actually Antarctica. Also the continent that gets the least amount of precipitation on the planet. These are simple facts, and one that geology has proved over and over again for tens of millions of years. Yet, for some reason many still try to connect heat with being dry. And much the same way, many have for decades been trying to blame almost everything that has happened on our planet to humans. For example, for well over 60 years a great many have been pushing for the idea that humans are responsible for the megafauna extinctions 13-14kya. And many still push this idea even today. Even though over a decade ago that was busted by simply looking at the facts. That the idea that humans suddenly 13-14kya would suddenly start to overhunt their environments globally simply does not exist in any records. There was never any huge increase of human populations at that time period, and yet megafauna went extinct globally. Even in locations where there was little to no humans present. Like in the Americas. The current theory actually explains it rather simply by the Younger Dryas. Where the earth suddenly cooled, and that in turn drastically changed the climate and foliage, causing the large herbivores to go extinct. Which then in turn caused the large predators that hunted them to go extinct. It not only is logical, but it explains how the same thing could happen globally. And leave some megafauna still alive, primarily those that lived in the fringes of two ecological niches so were more adaptable and able to survive the changes. Most people simply have no idea how much the Earth changes, or how rapidly it can change. The Younger Dryas is believed to have changed the climate from rapidly warming right back into an Ice Age condition in under 20 years. And it ended just as rapidly, in around 50-100 years.
And there is not even a "dry spell". Precipitation figures are available for well over 150 years. And they have shown little to no change since the early 1800s. But what has changed drastically during that time is the human population and the demands the put on the water available. Want a great example of that? Check out the level of high altitude lakes. For all the screams of "drought", those have hardly budged in hundreds of years. One would think that if there was a "true drought" caused by less rain, those would be the first to show the evidence of this. But that is not happening at all. Instead, notice how all of the screams are based on reservoirs. Those are artificial, and one of the largest uses is for irrigation and drinking water. Those are the ones that everybody is screaming about, not the natural high altitude lakes that are natural and do not have their water taken by humans. I have even seen some scream that is why the Great Lakes are shrinking. However, geologists know that is not true because in reality they are shrinking because the ground under them is still rising from the glaciers vanishing. That land is still suppressed from the tens of thousands of years of miles thick ice sheets, and is still rising. Which causes the bottom of the lake to rise, making them more shallow. I largely tune those kinds out, as the more they scream the more they show they really do not understand science at all. And in fact are the ultimate in luddites that believe everything on the planet is static and should never change. And if something does change, obviously we caused it.
