NPR

NPR tweeted the following:

“Hotter and drier conditions to come” – In other words climate change isn’t there yet. It is just some scary future thingy. (But somehow Democrats think it is a climate emergency now.)

[Graphs below are from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series ]

Vermont Data

HOTTER ?

July is the hottest month in Vermont. There has been no warming in 125 years.

From the above NOAA graph:

Temperature trend for 1895 to 2021 = 0.0

July 2021 was the third coldest on record.

Three hottest years: 1955, 1921, 1911

Alarmists: “Hotter and drier” – Data: oops, NOT HOTTER

DRIER ?

From the above NOAA graph:

Precipitation trend for 1895 to 2021 = +0.04

July 2021 was third wettest on record.

Three driest years on record: 1959, 1929, 1922

Alarmists: “Hotter and drier” – Data: oops, NOT DRIER

Conclusion

The foresters are apparently following the ubiquitous global warming/climate change dictate of “hotter and drier”, without checking local data.

From the NPR article linked in the NPR tweet:

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The foresters are rightly concerned about the ”unintended consequences” of bringing in species foreign to Vermont. But they are apparently following the official narrative. They are promoting the climate cult – “hotter and drier” is the new “not hotter, nor drier”.

(Apparently NPR writers need editing help – “Climate change is preceding faster”? Preceding means “existing before”. Perhaps they mean “proceeding faster” – Proceeding means “a sequence of events”. They don’t know the English language and they don’t know how to look up data to verify a story and call out the BS of the foresters.)

Postscript

Further evidence of logical problems with foresters:

Post-Postscript

Further evidence of logical problems with journalists:

From the article: “Their leaves pull in sunlight and carbon dioxide and create the essential sugar molecules that could eventually wind up in a bottle of maple syrup.” [bold added]

Here is the annual US production of maple syrup for 1975 to 2019 (thousands of gallons):

The above graph shows data from here: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/#U.S.%20Maple%20Syrup%20Production,%20Prices,%20and%20Trade