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General Category => Climate Change => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 29, 2024, 11:10:31 am
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March 26, 2024
The Seattle Times Says Washington State is in a Serious Drought. Is this True?
It is more than a little disturbing when a major regional newspaper (the Seattle Times) provides demonstrably inaccurate and deceptive weather and climate information.
But yesterday, the infamous Seattle Times ClimateLab did it again.
The first lines of the article describe the past year in apocalyptic terms:
Virtually every aspect of life in Washington suffered during last year’s drought.
Groundwater wells ran dry, fields produced fewer crops, trees died in greater numbers, fish faced disease and famine
And the next paragraph paints a very dark picture of our future:
Now those sectors are bracing for yet another poor water year as El Nino conditions, compounded by climate change, produced well below normal snowpack. The state also has recently hit record-high temperatures for this time of year.
The state’s water woes will continue, even worsen, in the decades ahead.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-seattle-times-says-washington-state.html#google_vignette