Tuesday, August 21, 2012
This is getting dull
Too easy, like taking carbon from a baby. But I'm going to keep doing it.
Comrade Peter Goldmark, Wash state land commissioner, talked about the supposed extreme fire danger in EASTERN WASHINGTON this year. He said the main problem was insect infestation, caused by DROUGHT (yes, that again) and also by lack of cutting. At least he got the latter part right, so maybe I should go easy on him... No, I won't.
Here's Eastern Washington as the NCDC divides it:
And here's a century of year-total precip for those 4 zones:
The 4 zones are fairly similar, each showing the expected 66-year cycle. But where's the fucking drought? The last 10 or 20 years have some ups and downs around the long-term average. What we have is a drought of chainsaws, not a drought of raindrops.
Comrade Peter Goldmark, Wash state land commissioner, talked about the supposed extreme fire danger in EASTERN WASHINGTON this year. He said the main problem was insect infestation, caused by DROUGHT (yes, that again) and also by lack of cutting. At least he got the latter part right, so maybe I should go easy on him... No, I won't.
Here's Eastern Washington as the NCDC divides it:
And here's a century of year-total precip for those 4 zones:
The 4 zones are fairly similar, each showing the expected 66-year cycle. But where's the fucking drought? The last 10 or 20 years have some ups and downs around the long-term average. What we have is a drought of chainsaws, not a drought of raindrops.
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