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Stop weather propaganda
The front page apocalyptic headline and colorful graphs in the Aug. 31 Spokesman-Review follows a consistent pattern where the fraud-riddled environment message is overly trumpeted. Do the propagators of this information, or their editors, bother to check for their obvious contradictions?
Turning the page to the actual weather section reveals that presently Spokane precipitation is a whopping .09 inches under the to-date average, but Coeur d’Alene is approximately 7 inches above average. Yet, we are proclaimed “abnormally dry.”
Do these writers understand where the water flows or how averages are arrived at? The same graph shows “severe drought” in the geographic “rain shadow” of the Cascades only to be followed by notations of torrential rains and flooding in this same area.
We are told that “experts” proclaim this summer to be the “harbinger” of the future. Are these the same experts who fallaciously proclaimed Hurricane Katrina the beginning of ever increasing yearly cyclonic catastrophes? Wrong! The disappearing ice caps? Wrong again! The vanishing polar bears that refused to cooperate and increased their numbers.
The only sure thing about the weather is that there will be future disasters and each one will be fraudulently exploited to the max.
Gary Warren
Spokane