Global warming rains contradictions
If you read newspaper headlines last week you would have thought that planetary warming meant an arid apocalypse was inevitable for Western Canada.
After a new review of what is projected to happen to the hydrology of snowy places like Canada was published in Nature magazine, the Globe and Mail thundered: "Drought threat looms over the Prairies' bounty."
"Canadian Prairies singled out as region set to suffer droughts," exclaimed the Vancouver Sun about the same study.
Well, no. --Stephen Strauss --Global warming rains contradictions (CBC News)
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