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December 29, 2023
Is the Low Snowpack this Year a Sign of Global Warming?
The poor coverage of snowpack trends in the Seattle Times and other newspapers was very evident today on the front page of our local newspaper (see below).
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/12/is-low-snowpack-this-year-sign-of.htmlA story "Winter has arrived, snow not so much" filled the right side of the front page. A reprint of a NY Times article by Mike Baker, this story suggests that the lack of snow was the result of global warming/climate change (see below).
Amazingly, this article neglects the key reason why our snowpack is not doing too well: this is a very strong El Nino year.
This incurious article does not review the trend of mountain snowpack over the past several decades: a crucial test of whether climate change could be blamed.
Just poor journalism. But let's do the proper analysis in this blog, and you can decide for yourself.
El Nino
