Here's a variation on the crackpot jibe often cast from the right wing of weather worrying that usually goes like this: "How can scientists say they can predict the climate years in advance when they can't even get the weather right for more than a few days?"
A better question...
Here's a variation on the crackpot jibe often cast from the right wing of weather worrying that usually goes like this: "How can scientists say they can predict the climate years in advance when they can't even get the weather right for more than a few days?"
A better question is found at Climate Central. Andrew Freedman, who in an earlier iteration of this post was put primarily at the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang (where he still does show up) gets some climate change experts to explain why hardly anybody raised advance red flags about the dreadful drought that dessicated, devastated, and generally demolished much of the US corn crop from May through July. One reason, the reader learns, is that it is really hard to do that even just a few weeks ahead of the...
Two recent, sober analyses of extreme events on the landscape - one on widespread US drought and the other on recent and ferocious wildfires in and around the Rockies - offer lessons for any journalist covering such things.
Two recent, sober analyses of extreme events on the landscape - one on widespread US drought and the other on recent and ferocious wildfires in and around the Rockies - offer lessons for any journalist covering such things.
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