Nova Scotia Drought: Is Climate Change to Blame? Nova Scotia Drought: Is Climate Change to Blame? The lack of rainfall in Nova Scotia has thrown the province into a drought. Dry conditions have been building all year. Since January, the province has had about 60% of normal precipitation levels, and drought conditions have become especially bad this summer. In July, large portions of the province had less than 40% of normal monthly precipitation. It’s abnormal. It’s having widespread impacts on people, businesses, and ecosystems, and there is no clear end in sight. So, can we draw a straight line between climate change and this drought? Dry, cracked soil in a drought-affected area. Those are difficult correlations to make. However, all of the climate change models are coinciding around research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and new studies coming out of the journal N...