August in the North Okanagan was bone dry, we've had a few damp days in Sept. but only one or two where we've had substantial rain, like more than 5 or 10 mm. 1/2 hour down pours don't do a hell of a lot!
I wish the experts would make up their minds- Is the earth warming or cooling? I know Antarctica and Greenland are warming, but what about the rest of the world where PEOPLE actually live?
The Okanagan has always been dry and will go back to how dry it was before every bit of farmable land was irrigated creating a microclimate in the Cascade/Coast Mountain rain shadow.
Antarctica has been getting colder by 0.1C very decade since the 1940s.
It's easy to get people to believe in AGW when you flat out lie.
Do you believe it's the warmest era on record? Would you feel better if you knew "the record" was compiled of sparse records that only go back 150 years to the end of the coldest point in the past 10,000 year going by the Geological record thanks to sunspots being non-existent for 400 years prior?
In the past 33 years solar radiation has started to diminish again leading to the past 18 years of warming flat lining.
You my run across an idiot who will say " if the sun is dimming why did it temperatures climb over those 33 years?" Well sir, since you wren't born after 1982 you can look back 33 years to when we had the acid rain panic. Sulpher emissions in the form of SO2 have been hacked so rapidly to the point it impacted climate just as rapidly. It was known back then that we'd be warming as a result which was taken advantage of and used to incite more panic after seeing how people rallied against acid rain.
As for why the Antarctic is cooling and he arctic warming that would be from the northern magnetic pole migrating rapidly north dragging the northern jet streams and ocean currents along for the ride with the south pole not moving as drastically.