Don't know how to say this but there is an (Un)Scientific America website and a book by that title... a longer running trend on a, to you in the eastern direction, other side of a big pond. Scarily, it's the anti-science, that are peddling the ''return to real science'' message... You an I know what that is. ''Real'' science is very much uninterrupted and without researching multiple paths one can never determine that the consensus is one worth of a high, ideally ''95% range" confidence level.

A few days ago, a lesser opti-comment on a blog came in [No, we don't do science through blogs... there's discussion, sometimes useless argument and screeching at times, but no actual science]. It was touching on enhancement of US droughts due to impairment of evapo-transportation and the very large corn covers on US farm land and a cryptic about CO2 & GM connection. Really, I followed his thought, but don't want nor will take a single biologists word on this, not a dozen. Somewhere a paper will appear [may exist already] and then the peer review and cross verification of other research will tease out the actual and solid facts. What I do know is, that evapo-transportation IS of critical importance to climate and plant-live and everything else, even sea based.

On a lighter note, when the world freezes over, the polar bears will get to know their counter part:



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P.S. Finding studies... frequently drafts, un-reviewed by peers, are lurking in corners. Google Scholar is pretty good if you have a set of key words, names appearing with an Abstract shown at e.g. Springer. Early publications are clearly water-marked with ''For Review'' of similar, in inalterable pdf or similar. You'v surely seen them.
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Don't know I thought you were residing in Australia.