The National Weather Service (NWS) chief in the Twin Cities office in Chanhassen, MN said on the news today that we can blame Mother Nature for the drought.
The Meteorologist in Charge said we were due for a drought based on a pattern of previous droughts in 1976 and 1988. He talked about the dry weather but said nothing about the early warm spring and climate change/global warming. It figures that his interview was with the media weather people that have sided with the skeptics/naysayers on anthropogenic global warming, and continue to do so. A 110 year warm record for average mean air temperature for the month of July was exceeded at a climate station called Leech Lake Federal Dam in north central Minnesota. A plot showing July mean temperatures at Leech Lake Federal Dam from 1891 to 2006 is in a box labeled "2006 July" at: http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/43637/index.php Also see: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/patneuman2000/my_photos Pat Neuman Chanhassen, MN _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
