Obama signs disaster declaration for wildfires
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this week designated the entire state a natural disaster area, allowing farmers to apply for low-interest emergency loans. Many producers in the nation's second-leading agricultural state have lost entire crops because of drought and wildfires. May 31 marked the end of the driest-ever eight-month span and some parts of Texas have not seen significant rain since August."
OK, I know, I know -- there have been droughts before. But as McKibben noted -- take it all together, it's a head-in-the-sand reaction to think/believe/maintain/skepticize that this is NOT related to the known trends in global and regional climate.
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