But the press office couldn t stop there. A third of the nation might have experienced drought, but we also experienced another record year of food production. Record crop production. Then, they predicted agricultural disaster from La Ni a and a damaging drought in the Midwest after the rain began to fall. Record crops again.
Objective science discusses mitigating or complicating factors.
But NCDC s press office doesn't mention environmental policies that led to a tremendous buildup of fuel out West, or how the U.S. Forest Service ignited that very big fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The U.S. has warmed up slightly in the last 106 years. That amount of warming is between three and four times less than was anticipated when output from computer-based General Circulation Models triggered this silly scare about a looming global climate disaster. During the last century, human life expectancy has doubled, crop yields have quintupled, and more and more people began to enjoy unprecedented wealth. And if that newsreader is a really independent thinker, they might, just might, conclude things aren't as bad as NCDC press office says they are.